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I received a B.A. in economics from St. Vincent College in 1966 and a Ph.D. in economics from Boston College in 1971. I started working at Illinois State University in 1971, where I was fortunate to have three careers. From 1971 to 1981, I served as an academic economist in the Department of Economics and was promoted to Full Professor in 1981. From 1981 to 1991, I served an administrative stint, first as the Assistant Dean of the College of Arts and Sciences, then as Acting Associate Provost and Dean of Instruction in charge of academic planning and program review, and finally as Associate Vice President for Business and Finance where I coordinated the University's strategic planning efforts, authored an initial draft of a document that provided the basis for the University's decision to reduce enrollment by 3,000 students, and chaired a committee whose work resulted in a new telecommunications systems. In 1991, feeling the need to return to my roots and to the academic side of the University, I returned to my position in the Department of Economics. In May, 2002, I officially retired from my position in the Economics department. I am now Professor Emeritus of Economics. Life is good!

My Teaching Interests

I recognition of my teaching, I received the University Teaching Award, Illinois State University's highest teaching award, in 1998. My favorite courses to teach are:

• ECO 138 Social Science Reasoning Using Statistics
• ECO 238: Econometrics--Confronting Economics Hypotheses with Data

My research interest lies primarily in the area of the economics of education. My research has appeared in the Journal of Economic Education, American Economic Review, Economic Inquiry, AAUP Bulletin, Educause Quarterly, and Economics of Education Review. In recognition of a lifetime of scholarship concerning teaching and learning, I received the Henry H. Villard Research Award, sponsored by the National Association of Economic Educators and the National Council on Economic Education, in 1999. Some recent publications:

• Chizmar, J. F. (1994) "Total Quality Management (TQM) of Teaching and Learning,"Journal of Economic Education, Vol. 25, No. 2, (Spring).
• Chizmar, J. F. and Williams, D. B. (1996) "Altering Time and Place Through Network Technologies to Enhance Learning," CAUSE/EFFECT, Vol. 19, No. 3 (Fall).
• Chizmar, J. F. and Williams, D. B. (1997) "Internet Delivery of Instruction: Issues of Best Teaching Practice, Administrative Hurdles, and Old-Fashioned Politics" presented at CAUSE97, Orlando.
• Chizmar, J.F. and Williams, D.B. (1998) "Internet Delivery of Instruction: Issues of Best Teaching Practice, Administrative, Hurdles, and Old-fashioned Politics" Campus-wide Informations Systems 15(5).
• Chizmar, J. F. and Ostrosky, A. L. (1998) "The One-Minute Paper: Some Empirical Findings," Journal of Economic Education Vol. 29, No. 1 (Winter).
• Chizmar, J. F. and Walbert, M. S.(1998) "Web-based Learning Environments Guided by Principles of Good Teaching," presented at the Conference on Integrating New Technologies in the Undergraduate Teaching of Economics, Pittsburgh, PA.
• Chizmar, J. F. and Walbert, M. S.(1999) "Web-based Learning Environments Guided by Principles of Good Teaching," Journal of Economic Education Vol. 30, No. 3 (Winter).
• Chizmar, J. F. and Williams, D. B. (1999) " Deconstructing Classroom Technology in Practice: What Our Web Technologies Suggest About What Faculty Want" presented at CAUSE99, Long Beach.
• Survey Results from the Chizmar & Williams Research (1999)
• Chizmar, J. F. (2000) "A Discrete-Time Hazard Analysis of the Role of Gender in Persistence in the Economics Major," Journal of Economic Education Vol. 31, No. 2 (Spring).
• Chizmar, J.F. and Williams, D.B. (2001) "What Do Faculty Want?". Educause Quarterly (Spring).

 Last update: 1-aug-02