专业描述

The Howard University Department of Economics trains leaders for America and the Global Community. Graduates of the Department include Dr. Samuel Z. Westerfield, Jr. for whom the National Economics Association named its most prestigious award for economists who make outstanding contributions to economics and as teachers, researchers and public servants. Westerfield held many posts in academia, including a visiting position at the Harvard Business School and as Dean of the School of Business at Atlanta University (with his noted colleague Whitney M. Young, the Dean of the School of Social Work), and as U.S. Ambassador to Liberia (1969-1972), and as Deputy Assistant U.S. Secretary of State for African Affairs. Alums also include Dr. Sadie Gregory, Acting President, Coppin State University; Dr. Akpan Ekpo, Vice Chancellor of Akwa Ibom State University of Technology in Nigeria, Chair of the Akwa Ibom Investment and Industrial Promotion Council and Member of the Board of the Central Bank of Nigeria; and, Dr. Gwendolyn Flowers, who served as Chief Economist for the U.S. Department of Commerce and as the chief economist for the D.C. Financial Control Board; Dr. Marva Corley is an Economics Affairs Officer with the United Nations Department of Economics and Social Affairs; Cheryl Hill Lee is a Statistician Economist at the U.S. Census Bureau where she coordinates the report on income, poverty and health insurance coverage. Last year’s undergraduate majors went on to pursue doctorates in economics, work for investment banking firms, work for big six accounting firms, work for the Peace Corps, work for major retailers and manufacturing firms and take government positions; reflecting the range of careers that economists pursue. The Department achieves its goal by being a dynamic and vibrant place where students are exposed to a wide variety of experiences. The Department’s Howard Economic Policy Forum which has aired nationally on C-SPAN has played host to NAACP President Bruce Gordon, AFL-CIO President John Sweeney, AARP President Marie Smith, former U.S. Senate Majority Leader Tom Dashcle, U.S. House Ways and Means Committee Member Stephanie Tubbs-Jones, and Federal Reserve Board of Governors Vice-Chair Ronald Ferguson. Last year’s inductees into Omicron Delta Epsilon, the economics honor society, heard from economics Nobel Laureate Dr. Joseph Stiglitz, and the year before they heard from Dr. Andrew Brimmer, the first African American to serve on the Federal Reserve Board of Governors.