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Vedder writes on ‘This Is What a Good University President Looks Like’

Dr. Richard Vedder

Dr. Richard Vedder, Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Economics at Ohio University, authored a column on “This Is What a Good University President Looks Like” for the American Institute for Economic Research. While American higher education often is rightly condemned for being inefficient, non-innovative, and resistant to change, there are exceptions, […]

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March 23, 2022 at 5:18 pmFaculty in the News In the News

Vedder in Forbes | A high quality back to the basics university?

Dr. Richard Vedder

Dr. Richard Vedder, Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Economics at Ohio University, authored a column at Forbes headlined Making Colleges Work Again: Lessons From Adam Smith. In the article, he envisions a “high quality Back to the Basics University.” …We are approaching 250 years since the founder of modern economic analysis, […]

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December 8, 2021 at 9:49 amIn the News

Courier quotes Vedder on why gas prices are rising

Dr. Richard Vedder

The (Findlay, Ohio) Courier quoted Dr. Richard Vedder, Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Economics at Ohio University, in a story headlined Gas prices hitting highs. Richard Vedder, an emeritus economics professor at Ohio University, said the increase in gas prices needs to be put in the context of broader inflation happening […]

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December 7, 2021 at 3:57 pmFaculty in the News In the News

Vedder to serve as content adviser, op-ed author for Optimal

Dr. Richard Vedder

Higher education research publisher Optimal announced the addition of Dr. Richard Vedder to its team as a content adviser and op-ed author in a June 28 news release. Vedder is Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Economics at Ohio University. Vedder’s tenure of advocating for change in the higher education space makes […]

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July 2, 2021 at 10:35 amFaculty in the News In the News

Vedder in Forbes | A Discourse on Hyper-Specialization vs. General Education

Dr. Richard Vedder

Dr. Richard Vedder, Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Economics at Ohio University, wrote a column at Forbes headlined Publish Or Perish Can Become Publish AND Perish. Going back several hundred years, the great contributors to advancing our civilization tended to dabble in many disciplines and were not ultra-specialized. Leonardo Da Vinci, […]

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May 10, 2021 at 8:42 pmFaculty in the News In the News

Alumnus Clarence Page Credits Vedder in Story on Removing Systemic Barriers in Hiring Practices

Dr. Richard Vedder

Ohio University alumnus Clarence Page BSJ’69, aa syndicated columnist and a member of the Chicago Tribune editorial board, credits one of his former professors, Dr. Richard Vedder, in a column he wrote about removing systemic barriers in hiring practices. Page notes that employers often require a college degree for positions […]

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Vedder in Forbes | ‘We Need True Marketplaces of Ideas, Republics of Letters…’

Dr. Richard Vedder

Dr. Richard Vedder, Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Economics at Ohio University, wrote a column at Forbes headlined A Star Is Born: The Academic Freedom Alliance. …Indeed, the evolution of the modern great universities is most associated, appropriately, with the Enlightenment in Europe arising out of the Renaissance and Reformation after […]

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