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Visiting Scholar Projects Post-election Economy



A visiting scholar and economist from Maryland will discuss “What Is Next for the U.S. Economy Now That the Election is Over?” during a visit to Alma College.

William Anderson will speak at 8 p.m. Wednesday, Nov. 14 in the Dow Science Center Room L-1. Admission is free and open to the public.

“With the election over, Anderson will address several questions regarding the future of the U.S. economy,” says Feler Bose, assistant professor of economics at Alma College. “What will be the effects of the election on the economy in the next year and over the next four years? Will the anemic recovery continue, or will we see a strong recovery?”

  William Anderson

Anderson, an associate professor of economics at Frostburg State University, has written several articles in academic journals and the popular press, with subjects ranging from economic and environmental issues to the American criminal justice system.

An adjunct scholar with the Mackinac Center for Public Policy, he also is the author of two blogs, William L. Anderson and Krugman-in-Wonderland. He has a doctorate in economics from Auburn University.

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Spring Term at Alma is a one-month immersion on a single academic topic that offers learning experiences not typically available during the more traditional 15-week fall and winter terms. For example, during Spring Term 2012, students observed lizards in Bermuda, studied modern economic development in India, performed dance in Taiwan, examined renewable energy in Europe and investigated medicinal plants in the Amazon rainforest.

 

Graduate Profile

Elizabeth Priester Steding

Elizabeth Priester Steding
Graduation: 1994
Major: German

Elizabeth Priester Steding came to Alma College thinking she would become an elementary school teacher. Placing into third-year German changed her mind.

Now an assistant professor of German at Luther College in Decorah, Iowa, she completed her master’s degree in German while teaching high school, through a summer program at University of California, Santa Barbara.