THURSDAY, JULY 15, 2004

2:00 –5:00 pm
Active Learning Strategies
Robin Bartlett, Dennison University

6:30-8:30 pm
Dinner for Teaching Conference Participants, Location to be announced

FRIDAY, JULY 16, 2004

9:00- 11:00 am
Integrating Race and Gender in the Economics Curriculum
Robin Bartlett, Dennison University
Cecilia Conrad, Pomona College

11:15-12:45
Minority Faculty in Majority Classrooms: A Discussion
Moderator - Cecilia Conrad

2:00-2:15 pm
Welcome and Introductions
Charles Becker, Duke University
Patrick Mason, Florida State University and CSMGEP Chair

2:15-2:30 pm
The Pipeline Project – An Assessment
Cecilia Conrad, Pomona College and Pipeline Project Director

2:45: 3:45 pm
Vicki Bogan, Cornell University
(Title Lost to Cyberspace)

4:00-5:00 pm
“Joint Estimation of Technology Adoption and Land Allocation with Implications for the Design of Conservation Policy”
Georgina Moreno, Scripps College

7:00 pm
Dinner for students with members of the Committee on the Status of Minority Groups in the Economics Profession
Von Canon A, Bryan Center

SATURDAY, JULY 17, 2004

9:00-10:00 am
Fernando Lozano, University of California-Santa Barbara, PhD Candidate and Doctoral Fellow, Pomona College
“High School Leadership Activities and the Post-Secondary Outcomes of Hispanics”

10:15-11:15 am
Yolanda Kodrzycki, Federal Reserve Bank of Boston
"College Completion Gaps between Blacks and Whites: What Accounts for Regional Differences?"

11:30 –12:30 am
Larry Chavis, Graduate Student, Graduate School of Business, Stanford University
“Firms, Bureaucrats, and Organized Crime: An Empirical Examination of Illicit Interactions”

12:30-1:45 - Lunch Break/Breakout Groups
A.  The Economics Job Market
B.  Choosing a Graduate Program
C.  Surviving Graduate School

1:45-2:30
Federal Reserve Roundtable
Willene Johnson, Board of Governors
Janice Shack-Marquez, Board of Governors
Yolanda Kodrzycki, FRB Boston
Brad Hershbein, FRB Boston

2:30-3:15  Cecilia Conrad, Pomona College
“There Goes the Neighborhood?  Race in Suburban California”

5:00 pm
Dinner at home of Professor Frank Sloan, Alexander McMahon Professor in Health Policy & Management and Professor of Economics, Duke University