Options, Prestige, Potential:
Economics @ Millersville
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Options, Prestige, Potential:
Economics @ Millersville
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Mike’s teaching interests include microeconomic theory, environmental economics, health economics, public finance, and economic education. Mike’s research interests include environmental economics and economic education, in particular, the economics of land use and farmland preservation. In 2000, Mike completed work as the project director on a research project looking at public farmland preservation for the Center for Rural Pennsylvania. This report, "An Interdisciplinary Approach to Benefit Cost Analysis of Public Farmland Preservation Programs" (co-authored by Gary Hovinen and Charles Geiger) was rated the #1 project by the Center's Board of Directors in 1999.
In 2000, Mike published a research paper titled, "Do Consumer's Respond to
Ecolabels?: Evidence from a Market Experiment Using Contingent Valuation," in
the Pennsylvania Economic Review. In 2005, Mike was the primary author and project director for Economics and the Environment: Focus on Land Use and Farmland Preservation, a curriculum for teaching environmental economics at the 9-12 grade level. This text was published by EconomicsPennsylvania with funding from the Claneil Foundation and the Pennsylvania Delegation of the Chesapeake Bay Commission. As the director of the Center for Economic Education, Mike is actively involved in the development of economic education at the K-12 level. In his 13 years as director, Mike has presented over 80 professional development workshops and seminars to over 1450 teachers. In his role as the director of the Center for Economic Education, Mike provides support to area educators who participate in programs offered by EconomicsPennsylvania such as the Stock Market Game, the Business Plan Competition, and the Economics Challenge. According to data collected from teachers, the lessons and programs offered by the center over the past 13 years have influenced the education of over 30,000 k-12 students in the local area and this number does not include the ongoing use of the lessons and programs in the years following the professional development activity. As a member of the Millersville University faculty, Mike has been involved in projects that have brought to the university over $310,000 in corporate, government, and foundation grants and contributions. In addition, Mike's research and his connection to economic and personal finance education has resulted in feature stories and quotes in local and regional newspapers including the Lancaster New Era, Lancaster Sunday News, Lancaster Business2Business, Harrisburg Patriot News, Central Penn Business Journal, and Central Penn Parent. Mike has also appeared on WGAL News, WHP 580, and WITF public radio. Mike currently serves on the University's Tenure and Promotion Committee and Academic Theme Committee. Mike is a former member of the University Foundation Board of Directors and a former delegate for APSCUF. Mike is a member of many professional organizations, a board member of the Local Economy Center at Franklin and Marshall College and a member of the Center for Environmental Sciences at Millersville University.
Mike received his BA in Economics (1991) from the State University of New York at Geneseo and his MS and PhD in Economics (1993, 1998) from the Fall 2008 |
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Mike Gumpper is a professor of economics and the
director of the Center
for Economic Education at Millersville University.