Professor, July 1990 to present. Teaching, research, and service responsibilities. Courses taught: Principles of Economics (macroeconomics); Labor Economics; Economics of Black Community Development; Human Resources (graduate); Public Finance (graduate). Labor Economics Fellow, U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, September 2005-August 2006. Fellow during sabbatical and following semester. Consulted on a variety of research issues and designed a study of federal sector equal employment outcomes. Interim Chairman, Department of Economics, Howard University, Washington, DC, July 2003-June 2005. Chairman, July 1990 to June 1996. Responsible for administration of department of 14 full-time faculty as well as part-time faculty in undergraduate, M.A., and Ph.D. economics programs. Budget administration, staff supervision, class scheduling, chairing various meetings; directing doctoral dissertations; providing job placement information; recruitment of faculty and students; conducting research; fund-raising. Service on college- and university-wide committees. Teaching undergraduate courses Principles of Economics, Economics of Black Community Development; graduate course Economics of Poverty and Manpower. Associate Research Director and Senior Research Economist, United States Sentencing Commission, Washington, DC, 1986 to 1990. Study Director, National Research Council, National Academy of Sciences, 1984-1986. Direction of study assessing evaluations of the Youth Employment and Demonstration Projects Act (YEDPA). Author of YEDPA, Duties included hiring and supervision of staff of professionals and an administrative assistant; preparation of agenda and materials for committee of experts; selection of authors and oversight of preparation of commissioned papers; drafting committee reports; budgetary and administrative responsibilities for the project. As a consultant, organized a major conference on youth employment focusing on the committee's report. Associate Professor of Economics, University of the District of Columbia, 1982-1985. Taught courses in Principles of Economics (macroeconomics); Labor Economics (Labor and Industrial Relations); Independent Studies. Other duties included performing research and service on departmental Curriculum Committee, and Executive Committee, among others. Consultant, The Urban Institute, 1981-1984. Principal Investigator for a study of the career mobility of minorities and women in the federal sector. Duties included proposal preparation and marketing; identification, acquisition, and analysis of a large dataset of federal employment records; writing final report to the sponsor (the Rockefeller Foundation). Principal Investigator for a study of the employment of minorities and women in state and local government funded by the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation. Consultant on various studies including an econometric analysis of the effects of participation in Comprehensive Employment and Training Act (CETA) programs on the employment and earnings of youth and the economically disadvantaged; a study of racial differences in adolescent fertility. Associate Professorial Lecturer, School of Government and Business Administration, George Washington University, Fall 1981. Taught graduate level course on intergovernmental relations. Executive Director, Urban Policy Analysis and Research Unit, National Urban Coalition, 1979 to 1981. Principal Investigator on $500,000 grant project devoted to analyzing various policy proposals including public service employment, welfare reform, and alternative policies to stimulate employment. Responsible for developing an internship for minority students in conjunction with Atlanta University. Consultant, Congressional Budget Office, 1976. Analysis of the literature on the economic impact of equal employment opportunity efforts under Title VII of the 1964 Civil Rights Act. Director of Research, Black Economic Research Center, New York, NY, 1976. Directed research program and staff; fund-raising; report writing. Instructor and Assistant Professor, Department of Political Economy, University of Massachusetts at Boston, 1973 to 1977. Taught courses in Labor Economics (Labor and Industrial Relations); Economic Literacy; Political Economy of the Black Ghetto; Independent Studies; and Senior Honors Theses. Served on departmental Appointments, Promotions, and Tenure Committee; Executive Committee; Curriculum Committee; and various university-wide committees. Labor Economist, Policy Research Division, Office of Economic Opportunity, Executive Office of the President, 1971 to 1973. Duties included research on labor market aspects of poverty; measurement of central city-suburban racial wage differentials; review of effectiveness of manpower training efforts. Other duties involved monitoring a research grant (Poverty in the Labor Market) awarded to the National Bureau of Economic Research; reviewing grant applications; commenting upon proposed legislation; and other administrative duties. Research Assistant, Institute on Labor and Industrial Relations, Wayne State University-University of Michigan, 1967-71. Duties included data collection and analysis in connection with various studies, including a study of union constitutional provisions in light of the Labor Management Reporting and Disclosure Act (Landrum-Griffin); a study of the determinants of earnings in union/non-union environments; a study to develop a method for computerized literature search on equal employment opportunity subject matter.