Economics Department 1681 Wingspan Way

VITA

(01.2015)

ROBERT L. PENNINGTON, JR.

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Economics Department 1681 Wingspan Way

College of Business Administration Winter Springs, FL 32708-5928

University of Central Florida

Orlando, FL 32816-1400

Phone: 407-399-2173 407-365-8744 or 407-399-2173

FAX: 407-823-3103

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Personal Data

Born, February 2, 1947, Amarillo, Texas

Married, one daughter

Education

BA (Economics) 1969, Texas A&M University

College Station, Texas

Ph.D. (Economics) 1977, Texas A&M University

College Station, Texas

Dissertation Title: "The Generalized Handicap Wager Market for Football Bets: Theory and Evidence"

Teaching and Research Areas

Managerial Economics Economic Education

Microeconomic Theory Monetary Theory and Policy

Mathematical Economics History of Economic Thought

Macroeconomics Money and Banking

Managerial Macroeconomics Labor Economics

Leadership Education Public Economics

Present Professional Responsibilities

Professor Emeritus, Economics, Department of Economics, College of Business Administration, University of Central Florida, January 31, 2014 to present

Treasurer, UCF Chapter 232 of The Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi, national honorary, 2006-2015

President, UCF Chapter 232 of The Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi, national honorary, 2012-15

UCF Past Professional and Administrative Responsibilities

Director, Center for Economic Education, College of Business Administration, University of Central Florida, August, 1983 to January 31, 2014

President, UCF Chapter 232 of The Honor Society of Phi Kappa Phi, national honorary, 2003-05

Associate Professor of Economics, Department of Economics, College of Business Administration, University of Central Florida, August, 1983 to January 31, 2014

Fellow, Dr. Phillips Institute for the Study of American Business Activity, College of Business Administration, University of Central Florida, 1989 to 2010

Director, Florida’s Student Stock Market Game, University of Central Florida and Florida Council on Economic Education, 1986-1990

Graduate Programs Review Committee, College of Business Administration, Chair: 1988, 1989, 1990, 1991; Secretary: 1992, 1993; Member: 1994, 1995, 1996, 1997

UCF Graduate Council, College of Business Administration Representative, 1989-1992 and 1994-1997

SACS Program Assessment Committee, Chair, Department of Economics, College of Business Administration, University of Central Florida, 1999 to 2001

Director, Master of Arts in Applied Economics Program, College of Business Administration, University of Central Florida, 1990-1994

Assistant Dean, Academic Programs and Office of Student Support, College of Business Administration, University of Central Florida, December 1993 - December 1997

Associate Dean, Undergraduate Programs and Office of Student Support, College of Business Administration, University of Central Florida, January 1998 – December 1998

Member, University Master Planning Committee, 1993-1996, 1996-1999; Member Steering Subcommittee, 1994-1996

Member, University Founder’s Day Committee, 1994 to 1999

Director, MBA Program, College of Business Administration, University of Central Florida, 1994-1997

Chair, University Strategic Planning Council’s Administrative Review and Assessment Committee, 1995-1997

Member, University Strategic Planning Council, 1995-1997

Member, Academic Calendar Committee, 1994-1996, 1996-1998

Interim Director, Executive MBA Program, College of Business Administration, University of Central Florida, January 1996 - January 1997

Interim Director, Center for Executive Education, College of Business Administration, University of Central Florida, January 1996 - March 1997

Coordinator and Lead Faculty, LEAD Scholars Program, College of Business Administration, University of Central Florida, 1995 to 2002

Academy Faculty Fellow, UCF Academy for Teaching, Learning and Leadership, College of Education, University of Central Florida, Active Fellow 2003-2004

Director, Gordon J. Barnett Foundation, representing UCF-CBA in distributing funds through SunTrust; FY 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006 and 2007

UCF Faculty Senate, Economics Department or CBA Representative, 1990-1992, 2000-2013

UCF Faculty Senate, Steering Committee, 2000-2010

UCF Faculty Senate, Vice Chair, 2010-2012

UCF Faculty Senate Parlimentarian, 2000-2013

UCF Faculty Senate Committee Member to Revise Senate Constitution and Bylaws (twice)

UCF Undergraduate Curriculum Committee, Faculty Senate Representative 2000-2001

UCF Undergraduate Curriculum Committee, Chairman, 2001-2009

University General Education Program (GEP) Oversight Committee member, 2005-2010

UCF Lead Scholars Program, founding faculty member and CBA teaching faculty for 7 years

State University General Education Program (GEP) Oversight Committee member, representing UCF to the other Florida SUS universities, 2005-2010

State University General Business Discipline Committee member, representing UCF to the other

Florida SUS universities, 2006-2010

College of Business Administration Undergraduate Programs Review Committee, Scribe, 2006-2010

College of Business Administration Faculty Assembly Parliamentarian, 1990-2013

College of Business Administration General Business Institutional Program Assessment Committee, 2002-2010

Economics Department Institutional Program Assessment Committee, Chair, CBA, 2001-2013

Economics Department Undergraduate Coordinator and Advisor, College of Business Administration, University of Central Florida, 2002 to 2008

Economics Department Institutional Program Assessment Committee, Chair, College of Business Administration, University of Central Florida, 2001-2013

Economics Department Representative, College of Business Administration Undergraduate Programs Review Committee, 1999-2012

College of Business Administration Undergraduate Programs Review Committee, Chair, 2001-2002, 2002-2003, while serving as Economics Department elected representative

Past Professional and Administrative Responsibilities Before UCF

Chemical Process Engineer, Bell Helicopter, 1969

NDEA Doctoral Fellow, Texas A&M University, 1969-1971 and 1971-1972

Economic Analyst, Texas Department of Public Safety, 1971

Graduate Teaching Assistant, Departments of Economics and Mathematics, Texas A&M University, 1972, 1973

Research Associate, Counseling and Testing Center, Texas A&M University, 1974-1975

Assistant Director, Research and New Student Summer Conferences, Academic Counseling Center, Texas A&M University, 1975-1976

Assistant Professor of Economics, Department of Economics, George Mason University, 1976-1983

Director, Center for Economic Education, College of Arts and Sciences, George Mason University, 1978-1983

Professional Memberships

American Economic Association

Western Economics Association

Florida Council for the Social Studies

Association for Private Enterprise Education

National Association of Economic Educators

Awards-Achievements

1985 Freedoms Foundation at Valley Forge George Washington Medal for Economic Education

1985 Florida Council on Economic Education Special Award for Exemplary Economic Education Programs

1986 Freedoms Foundation at Valley Forge George Washington Medal for Economic Education

1987 Florida Council on Economic Education Distinguished Program Award for the Florida Stock Market Game

1987 Joint Council on Economic Education Exemplary Developmental Economic Education Program Award Honoring Orange County Public Schools and the UCF Center (one of five awards for the nation)

1988 Leavy Awards for Excellence in Economic Education from the Freedoms Foundation at Valley Forge awarded in Washington, DC, March, l988. (One of l7 Leaveys awarded for 1988)

1988 NFIB Foundation National Awards Program, Postsecondary Economic and Entrepreneurship Education

1988 Joint Council on Economic Education Exemplary Developmental Economic Education Program Award Honoring Orange County Public Schools (Jones High School) and UCF Center (one of ten awards in the nation)

1988 Florida Council on Economic Education Distinguished Program Award for the Little Business Game

1989 Securities Industry Foundation for Economic Education, inaugural award of the L. Massey Clarkson, Jr. National Stock Market Game of the Year Award

1989 International Paper Company Foundation National Awards Program for the Teaching of Economics: College and University Division

1990 Joint Council on Economic Education Exemplary Developmental Economic Education Program Award Honoring Seminole County Public Schools and UCF Center (one of five awards in the nation)

1991 Joint Council on Economic Education Exemplary Developmental Economic Education Program Award Honoring Lake County Public Schools (Eustis High School) and UCF Center (one of five awards in the nation)

1992 Orange County Public Schools Outstanding Business Partnership for work with OCPS Secondary Social Studies to improve economics instruction through out the district

1993 Orange County Public Schools Outstanding Business Partnership for work with OCPS Elementary Social Studies to develop the fifth grade economics instruction project implementing the “BIZ KID$” drug store in Fashion Square Mall

1996 Orange County Public Schools Outstanding Business Partnership for work with OCPS Secondary Social Studies to improve economics instruction through out the district

1996 Florida Council on Economic Education Outstanding Service Award for work with Orange County Schools in Projects SHARE and BEST

1998 Florida Council on Economic Education Outstanding Center Award for Florida

1999 University Faculty Leadership Award for College of Business Administration for creating, teaching and leading the Lead Scholars Program and Leadership UCF programs and courses and for teaching teachers through the Economic Education Center

2003-4 Academy Faculty Fellow, UCF Academy for Teaching, Learning and Leadership, College of Education, University of Central Florida, 2003 to 2004

Publications

Books (Paper and Digital):

Economics Teacher Resource Guide, Florida Council on Economic Education and Florida Department of Education, 1984. (Co-author)

The Little Business Game: Supplemental Economic Education Concept Activities for Elementary, Middle and High School, 1991, New Frontiers Publishing, Inc., (coauthor).

Economics: Free Enterprise in Action, Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich, Inc., 1988. (Content specialist, reviewer, editor and writer for this team-managed, high school textbook project.)

Teachers Manual and Resource Guide for Economics: Free Enterprise in Action, Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich, Inc., 1988. (Content specialist, reviewer, editor and writer for this team-managed, high school textbook project.)

Stock Market Game Teaching Strategies, MCG Part II, Joint Council on Economic Education, New York, 1988. (Co-author)

Economics Teacher Resource Guide, Revised Edition, 1991-92, Florida Council on Economic Education, (Coauthor and coeditor)

Economics Teacher Resource Guide, Third Edition (on disk), 1996, Florida Council on Economic Education, (Coauthor and coeditor)

Holt Economics-1999, Holt, Rinehart and Winston; Austin, Texas; 538 pages; 1999; ISBN 0-03-050584-4.

Holt Economics-1999, Annotated Teachers Edition, Holt, Rinehart and Winston; Austin, Texas; 538 pages; 1999; ISBN 0-03-051638-2.

Holt Economics-2003-INTERACTIVE ON LINE, 2003/1Y; published January 1, 2003; ISBN 978-0-03-093873-3

Holt Economics-2003-INTERACTIVE ON LINE, 2003/6Y; published January 1, 2003; ISBN 978-0-03-093871-9

Holt Economics-2003-DIGITAL CNT LICENSE HOLT ECON 2003/1Y; published January 1, 2003; ISBN 978-0-55-403229-0

Holt Economics-2003-DIGITAL CNT LICENSE HOLT ECON 2003; published January 1, 2003; ISBN 978-0-55-403239-6

HRW ECON-DIGITAL CNT LICENSE 1Y 2003; published February 22, 2013; ISBN 978-0-54-409799-5

Journal Articles:

"An Empirical Analysis of the Measurement of Retention of Economics Knowledge Among Students at Virginia Universities", 1979 Proceedings of the Southwestern Society of Economics. December 1979.

"Use of Applicant Flow Data in a Discrimination Suit", Public Personnel Management, Vol. 90, No. 1, January-February, 1980. (Co-author H.R. Bloch)

"Measuring Discrimination in a Local Labor Market", Personnel, Vol. 57, No.4, July-August, 1980. (Co-author H.R. Bloch)

"Labor Market Analysis as a Test of Discrimination", Personnel Journal, Vol. 59, No. 8, August 1980. (Co-author H.R. Bloch)

"The Influence of Student Learning Styles and Instructor Teaching Styles on Student Output in the Economics Principles Course: A Comparison Study", 1980 Proceedings of the Southwestern Society of Economists, December 1980.

"An Econometric Approach to the Assessment of Affirmative Action Programs", Review of Black Political Economy, Vol. II, No. 2, Winter 1981. (Co-author H.R. Bloch)

"Some Neglected Aspects of Equal Employment Opportunity Policy", Policy Report, Vol. III. No. 8, August 1981. (Co-author H.R. Bloch)

"How To Use the Price Auction Market in Class", Journal of Private Enterprise, Vol. I, No.1 November 1985.

"International Trade/Commercial Policy Myths and Reality: High School Texts versus Teacher Perceptions," The Journal of Private Enterprise, Vol. IV, No. 1, Fall l988.

"Teacher Perception of Economic Knowledge," The Journal of Private Enterprise, Vol. V, No. 1, Fall l989.

"Training of Little Business Economists," Economic Education Experiences of Enterprising Teachers, Vol. 26, Spring 1990, coauthor.

"Florida's Tourism Industry," Florida Connections, No. 8, September-October, 1990.

"Can Good Economics Be Good Education?" The Senior Economist, (Vol. 7, Number 1) September, 1991, (Co-author).

"Florida's Citrus Industry," Florida Connections, No. 9, December-January, 1991.

"Economics and Technology: The Perfect Place for Integrating Technology in the Social Sciences," Trends and Issues, (Fall, 1994: Vol. 5, Number 3).

“Employee-Owned Dailies: The Triumph of Economic Self Interest Over Journalistic Ideals,” Fred Fedler and Robert Pennington, The International Journal of Media Management, Vol.5, No. IV, Winter 2003, pp. 262-274.

“Active Learning for Larger Classes,” Robert L. Pennington and Barbara Moore, Proceedings and Papers from the Fifteenth Annual Conference on Teaching Economics: Instruction and Classroom Based Research; McGraw Hill/ Irwin and Robert Morris University, Moon Township, PA; September, 2004, pp. 57-68.

Other Publications:

"Florida Curriculum Reference for Junior Achievement's Applied Economics, Junior Achievement, 1986.

"Florida Curriculum Reference for Junior Achievement's Applied Economics, Second Edition, Junior Achievement, 1987.

"Orlando's Poor-- Poverty Amidst Plenty", City of Orlando Labor Study Implementation Committee Final Report to Mayor Bill Frederick, August 1990, (co-author).

Learning Activities Packets: Principles of Entrepreneurship, 1992, Orange County Public Schools.

Learning Activities Packets: Procedures for Starting a Small Business, 1992, Orange County Public Schools.

Florida Information Resource Network, (FIRN), 1992, "Economics Test Item Bank", 1401 item test bank over the 22 basic economic concepts recommended by the National Council on Economic Education. (Co-author)

““Florida’s Corporations” Online Edition Teaching Activity,” Florida Trend Online Magazine, July 2000

“The Economics of Education: Florida’s Efforts to Meet the Demands of a Strong Economy Through Educational Change,” paper written from my research from the UCF Academy of Teaching, Learning, and Leadership, published as part of the Academy’s monograph series online, 2004.

Thesis/Dissertation Research Supervision (Chair or Committee Member):

"Economics of Stock Market Game Operation," Karen Owens, 1988 Economics internship thesis chair

"Interest Rate Risk and the Market Valuation of U.S. Commercial Banks," Todd Shank, 1991 Business Administration (Finance) dissertation member

"The US "Human Capital Crisis": Is Florida A State at Risk?" Regina Cassady, 1991 Economics thesis member

"Labor Market Analysis of EmployerSupported Child Care," Gretchen Jarand, 1991 Economics thesis member

"Comparison of Benefits of Job Training Partnership Act Training Programs,” Victor Colvin, 1992 Economics internship thesis chair