Message - Rosenbaum

A Note to Potential Students and Job Market Candidates

The economics department here at UNC-Greensboro really is one of a kind. The core group of applied microeconomics people here are high quality researchers and the entire department is full of great people to be around day in and day out. We are a small but very cohesive department and one that is very supportive of its junior faculty. For example, the department chair has been very good about keeping our teaching load and number of preparations for junior faculty to a minimum.

The MA program (one of the nation’s best) with its focus on producing applied microeconomics graduates with strong micro-econometrics and data analysis skills is a joy to be a part of. The students are in general very good and work extremely hard. Our mix of students tends to include a lot of first generation college students, minorities, females, and older students with interesting backgrounds. (For example, it is not unheard of us to have lawyers, medical doctors, or Ph.Ds from other fields in our MA program.) Also, these students tend to be the type that have not had life handed to them on a silver platter, which makes it that much more gratifying when they complete our program and go on to interesting careers in research organizations, financial institutions, and government agencies or when they go on to other Ph.D. programs (sometimes to the best programs in the country).

Our new Ph.D. program with a focus on producing applied microeconomics graduates with strong applied micro-econometrics and data analysis skills (the same focus as our MA program) is another exciting new development for the department. We have made a number of innovations in our curriculum that we think is beneficial to a significant portion of students who are not served well by traditional Ph.D. programs. We think this will allow students to complete our program more quickly than traditional Ph.D. programs and with skills better suited to their eventual careers.

For more on either our MA or Ph.D programs, click here or e-mail me.

I also really like Greensboro. Greensboro has a lot of the attractions of big cities (fairly good restaurants and a good mix of arts/entertainment options), but very little of the hassle (like traffic problems) and the weather is just wonderful. Moreover, this area of the country is beautiful (at least for someone who grew up in the Midwest). It is very nice to be just a few hours away from both the mountains and the ocean.

Economics is not all that I do. I enjoy playing sports and talking about the NBA, especially basketball and when I get a chance to play once in awhile, I am pretty decent. However, without a doubt, my best assets are that I am married to a pastry chef (when I was on the job market, that fact was at the top of my vita) and our son Dominic.

Feel free to e-mail me to give me a call if you have any questions about UNC-Greensboro (336) 334-4872.

Last Modified: December 10, 2005.