Department Fact Sheet

1. The Department of Economics has 29 full-time faculty members - 21 tenured and
tenure-earning faculty and 8 instructors.

2. Women make up more than one-fifth of full-time faculty. The faculty is highly
diverse in terms of race and ethnicity.

3. The Department has 8 faculty members to support its niche area in
Environmental and Natural Resources (ENR) Economics, including a Galloway
Eminent Scholar Chair and a Distinguished Research Professorship.

4. The new Economics Ph.D. program with an emphasis on Environmental and
Natural Resources (ENR) Economics has an incoming class of 8 students.

5. Funded research projects in 2004 included 2 EPA grants. The Department
ranked #76 by NSF in R&D Expenditures in Social Sciences.

6. During the past two years, the Department funded 15 national and international
conferences.

7. The Department has a formal seminar series. Last year, 14 presentations were
made at the Seminar and Brown Bag Series.

8. The Department maintains a website for Faculty Working Papers. In 2005, 19 working papers were listed.

9. The Department houses the Center for Economic Education and the Institute for
Economic Competitiveness.

10. All full-time faculty are supported with 5-10 hours of graduate student assistance per week.

11. Faculty offices are located in the new Business Administration II building. The
offices are equipped with high-speed personal computers and laser printers.

12. All college classrooms are equipped with high-tech multimedia facilities.