When: 
Thursday, October 15, 2015 - 4:10pm - 5:00pm
Where: 
103 Ramer History House
Presenter: 
Professors Gary Kaskowitz and Sabrina Terrizzi, Moravian College; Professor Chris Ruebeck, Lafayette College
Price: 
Free

Professors Gary Kaskowitz, and Sabrina Terrizzi from the Department of Economics and Business at Moravian College are collaborating with Professor Chris Ruebeck from Lafayette College’s Department of Economics. Their project is one of four funded by a Teagle grant for inter-institutional work in the Lehigh Valley Association of Independent Colleges (LVAIC). This project is focused on empirical methods, recorded and real-time video instruction, and Community-Based Learning and Research (CBLR) projects.

Prof. Terrizzi has initiated a new Research Methods course at Moravian College this semester and is partnering with the United Way for the course’s CBLR project.  In addition to research methods, the students are learning new tools to document their findings for sharing with Prof. Kaskowitz’s and Prof. Ruebeck’s students in the spring semester, as they pursue additional CBLR projects.  Profs. Kaskowitz and Ruebeck will bring their Marketing Research students together in the spring to work on CBLR projects across the Lehigh Valley.  Both campus’s Marketing Research courses have pre-requisite or related courses in Statistics and Econometrics, and prepare students to conduct various advanced research methods including survey design. The CBLR projects will allow students to collaborate with community partners addressing various needs in the Lehigh Valley. There will be connections between coursework across the two semester and across the two campus. In addition to sharing some class time, students will be assigned to inter-institutional collaboration groups for their collaboration with community partners.

Sponsored by: 
CITLS and Center for Community Engagement

Contact information

Name: 
Prof. Chawne Kimber
Phone: 
(610) 330-5269
Email: 
kimberc@lafayette.edu