Kalamazoo Center for Economic Education
Department of Economics and Business

The Kalamazoo Center for Economic Education's mission is to improve the teaching of economics at all levels.  We are part of a national network of economic education centers coordinated by the National Council on Economic Education.  Our immediate affiliation is with the Michigan Council on Economic Education.  A large variety of K-12 curriculum are available through the national and state councils.
 
Patrik Hultberg will be Acting Director of the Center for Economic Education for the 2006-2007 academic year, while I am on leave in Uruguay.  Have a great year!

Chuck Stull
Center Director

 

mail:
1200 Academy Street
Kalamazoo College
Kalamazoo, MI 49006 		phone:
Marilyn Cake, Office Coordinator
(269) 337- 7053 		email:
Marilyn Cake, Office Coordinator
mcake@kzoo.edu 		FAX:
 (269)337-5733

We are on the third floor of Dewing Hall.  You may find this Campus Map useful.


Useful links.  Many of these sites have free lesson plans.

EconEdLink: data, current event lessons, and more
TheMint.org:personal finance for middle and high school
ECONnections: economics topics for grades 3-12
It All Adds Up: personal finance lessons
Economics International: lesson plans with an international perspective
Federal Reserve Bank of Chicago Education Resources
Great Ideas for Teaching Economics: tips and exercises for teaching College economics
Learning, Earning and Investing website.  A new finance curriculum from the NCEE with many useful online resources


michigan council on economic education                         national council on economic education


Past programs

Economics Across the Globe, June 21- June 22, 2006, was a free workshop on International Economics.   Presenters will included Professors Chuck Stull, Patrik Hultberg, and Susan Pozo.

We offered a personal finance seminar for the Hispanic community on June 24, 2006, in partnership with the Hispanic American Council.  The workshop was held at St Joseph's school in Kalamazoo, from 9 am - noon.  This workshop was in Spanish. This is an extension of a program developed by the Michigan Council on Economic Education in Southeast Michigan; financial support has been provided by HSBC.  (En Español)

May 20, 2006, we offered  a Virtual Economics 3.0 workshop.  Virtual Economics is a CD-ROM with hundreds of lessons.  Nearly every current NCEE  publications is included on the disc, in searchable and printable form.  The NCEE website has more details on Virtual Economics 3.0  sponsored by State Farm .

On February 1, 2006  I was a co-presenter in a workshop on "Ventures and Adventures in International Economic Education” at the Michigan Council for Social Studies and Great Lakes Regional Social Studies Conference  in Grand Rapids.

December 2005, We held a finance workshop titled "Learning, Earning, and Investing," for middle school and high school teachers, sponsored by Moody's Foundation.  See the Learning, Earning and Investing website. 

In August 2005, we  offered a four day  There's No Such Thing as a Free Lunch Economics Institute for K-12 teachers at Kalamazoo College (the registration form).  Thanks to generous grants from General Motors and from the US Department of Education this institute was free to teachers.  Both the Michigan Council and the National Council worked hard to bring these grants to Kalamazoo.  If you are interested in future workshops, please contact me at cstull@kzoo.edu. 

In May 2004, we co-sponsored a very successful daylong workshop on Teaching College Economics with Western Michigan University's Department of Economics.  While we won't have this program this year, we hope to return to it in the future.

 
 Created and maintained by Chuck Stull
Department of Economics and Business