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For Immediate Release
(April 20, 2009) Armstrong Atlantic State University (AASU) will host a public forum to discuss the current economic conditions under the Obama administration, including economic stimulus, proposed budget, budget deficits and the national debt. The forum will be held from 1:15-2:15 p.m. on Monday, April 20 in the Armstrong Center Auditorium, 13040 Abercorn Street. The final part of the forum will be devoted to questions from the audience.
The event is free and the public is invited.
AASU professor and Savannah Morning News guest columnist Richard J. Cebula will speak on the issues. AASU professor and historian June Hopkins will provide a historical perspective of the Great Depression of the 1930s. Mark Finlay, interim dean of the College of Liberal Arts, will serve as moderator.
Cebula is the Shirley & Philip Solomons Eminent Scholar at AASU. He is the author of more than 425 articles published in economics and business journals and 15 books. He serves as editor of the Journal of Regional Analysis and Policy and is the recipient of the Kenneth Elzinga Distinguished Teaching Award and the Distinguished Service to the Discipline Award from the International Atlantic Economic Society.
Hopkins' publications include a biographical study of her grandfather's social work career from 1912 through the Great Depression, Harry Hopkins: Sudden Hero, Brash Reformer. She also co-edited Jewish first wife, divorced: The Selected Letters and Papers of Ethel Gross and Harry Hopkins. Hopkins has been a professor of American history at AASU since 1998 and has been head of the history department for the past four years. She teaches courses in modern American history including courses on the Gilded Age and Progressivism, the Great Depression and the New Deal, World War II and the Cold War, and 20th Century political culture. She is currently working on a history of World War II and the relationship between Winston Churchill and Harry Hopkins.
Finlay joined AASU in 1992 and is a professor of history. He directed the AASU Honors Program for nine years and was named AASU Distinguished Professor of Teaching and Learning during the 1999-2000 academic year. He is the author of Growing American Rubber, to be published in 2009. He has published numerous scholarly papers and presentations and serves on the boards of directors for the Society for Industrial Archeology and the Savannah Ogeechee Canal Society.
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For Immediate Release
AASU to Host Economic Forum April 20
(April 20, 2009) Armstrong Atlantic State University (AASU) will host a public forum to discuss the current economic conditions under the Obama administration, including economic stimulus, proposed budget, budget deficits and the national debt. The forum will be held from 1:15-2:15 p.m. on Monday, April 20 in the Armstrong Center Auditorium, 13040 Abercorn Street. The final part of the forum will be devoted to questions from the audience.
The event is free and the public is invited.
AASU professor and Savannah Morning News guest columnist Richard J. Cebula will speak on the issues. AASU professor and historian June Hopkins will provide a historical perspective of the Great Depression of the 1930s. Mark Finlay, interim dean of the College of Liberal Arts, will serve as moderator.
Cebula is the Shirley & Philip Solomons Eminent Scholar at AASU. He is the author of more than 425 articles published in economics and business journals and 15 books. He serves as editor of the Journal of Regional Analysis and Policy and is the recipient of the Kenneth Elzinga Distinguished Teaching Award and the Distinguished Service to the Discipline Award from the International Atlantic Economic Society.
Hopkins' publications include a biographical study of her grandfather's social work career from 1912 through the Great Depression, Harry Hopkins: Sudden Hero, Brash Reformer. She also co-edited Jewish first wife, divorced: The Selected Letters and Papers of Ethel Gross and Harry Hopkins. Hopkins has been a professor of American history at AASU since 1998 and has been head of the history department for the past four years. She teaches courses in modern American history including courses on the Gilded Age and Progressivism, the Great Depression and the New Deal, World War II and the Cold War, and 20th Century political culture. She is currently working on a history of World War II and the relationship between Winston Churchill and Harry Hopkins.
Finlay joined AASU in 1992 and is a professor of history. He directed the AASU Honors Program for nine years and was named AASU Distinguished Professor of Teaching and Learning during the 1999-2000 academic year. He is the author of Growing American Rubber, to be published in 2009. He has published numerous scholarly papers and presentations and serves on the boards of directors for the Society for Industrial Archeology and the Savannah Ogeechee Canal Society.