Ronald G. Ehrenberg

Ronald Gordon Ehrenberg is an American economist. He is winner of the 2011 Mincer Award for Lifetime Achievement of the Society of Labor Economists ^[1]and the 2013 Howard Bowen Distinguished Career Award from the Association for the Study of Higher Education. He has primarily worked in the field of labour economics including the economics of higher education. Currently, he is Irving M. Ives Professor of Industrial and Labor Relations and Economics at Cornell University. He is also the founder-director of the Cornell Higher Education Research Institute (CHERI).^[2]

Education

Ehrenberg received a B.A. in mathematics from Harpur College (now Binghamton University) in 1966, an M.A. and a Ph.D. in economics from Northwestern University in 1970.^[2] After teaching at Loyola University and University of Massachusetts Amherst, he moved to Ithaca in 1975 and spent rest of his professional career at Cornell University. At Cornell, he is a faculty member in the department of labor economics in the School of Industrial and Labor Relations and in the department of economics in the College of Arts and Sciences. He also served as the university's Vice President for Academic Programs, Planning and Budgeting (1995–1998) and an elected member of the Cornell Board of Trustees (2006–10). In 2005, he was named a Stephen H. Weiss Presidential Fellow, the highest award for undergraduate teaching that exists at Cornell.

Research

Ehrenberg has authored or coauthored over 150 papers and authored or edited 26 books. He has supervised the dissertations of over 45 Ph.D. students and served on committees of numerous students. He coauthored a leading textbook, Modern Labor Economics: Theory and Public Policy (10th edition). He was the founding editor of "Research in Labor Economics" and served as a co-editor of the Journal of Human Resources. He is a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research and a Past President of the Society of Labor Economists. He is a Fellow of the Society of Labor Economists, of the Labor and Employment Relations Association, of the American Educational Research Association and the TIAA-CREF Institute, a member of the National Academy of Education, and a National Associate of the National Academies of Science and Engineering.

His more recent research has focused on higher education issues. In 1998, Ehrenberg founded Cornell Higher Education Research Institute (CHERI) to provide a vehicle for interdisciplinary research on higher education. CHERI's current research interests include "the implications of the growing dispersion of wealth across academic institutions, the growing costs and importance of science to universities, the financial challenges facing public higher education, the changing nature of the faculty, governance in academic institutions, improving PhD programs in the humanities and associated social sciences, improving persistence rates in STEM Field majors, and reducing inequality in access to higher education." Ehrenberg has served on numerous editorial boards and has been a consultant to many governmental agencies and commissions and university and private research corporations. He currently serves as a member of the Board of Trustees of the State University of New York (SUNY).

Selected Publications

• R. G. Ehrenberg (editor), "American University: National Treasure or Endangered Species," Cornell University Press, 1997.
• R. G. Ehrenberg, "Tuition Rising: Why College Costs So Much," Harvard University Press, 2002.
• R. G. Ehrenberg (editor), "Governing Academia," Cornell University Press, 2004.
• R. G. Ehrenberg, "What’s Happening to Public Higher Education?" Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007.
• P. E. Stephan and R. G. Ehrenberg (editors), "Science and the University," University of Wisconsin Press, 2007.
• R. G. Ehrenberg "Doctoral Education and the Faculty of the Future," Cornell University Press, 2008.
• R. G. Ehrenberg, H. Zuckerman, J. A. Groen, and S. M. Brucker, "Educating Scholars: Doctoral Education in the Humanities," Princeton University Press, 2010.

Awards and honors

Ehrenberg received honorary doctorates from SUNY in 2008 and Pennsylvania State University in 2011. In 2011, he was awarded Society of Labor Economist's Jacob Mincer Lifetime Achievement Award.^[2][3] In 2013, he was awarded the Howard Bowen Distinguished Career Award by the Association for the Study of Higher Education.

References

External links

• from Cornell University
• Cornell Higher Education Research Institute