Ronald G. Ehrenberg

Ehrenberg received a B.A. in mathematics from Harpur College (now Binghamton University) in 1966, an M.A. and a Ph.D. in economics from Northwestern University in 1970.[1][2] After teaching at Loyola University and University of Massachusetts Amherst, he moved to Ithaca in 1975 and spent rest of his professional career at Cornell University.

At Cornell, Ehrenberg is a faculty member in the department of labor economics in the School of Industrial and Labor Relations and in the department of economics in the College of Arts and Sciences.[3][4] He also served as the university's vice president for Academic Programs, Planning and Budgeting (1995–1998) and an elected member of the Cornell Board of Trustees (2006–10). In 2005, he was named a Stephen H. Weiss Presidential Fellow, the highest award for undergraduate teaching that exists at Cornell.[5]

Ehrenberg's academic contributions have been primarily in the field of labor economics including the economics of higher education. He has authored or edited (sometimes with coauthors) over 30 books and book-length reports.[6] He has published over 160 articles in professional journals.

Ehrenberg has served as a member of the Board of Trustees of the State University of New York from 2010-2017 (SUNY).[7]

Ehrenberg has received numerous academic honors and professional distinctions. He received an Honorary Doctor of Science from Binghamton University State University of New York in 2008.[13] He was a commencement speaker at Pennsylvania State University's 2011 Commencement during which he received an Honorary Doctor of Humane Letters from the university.[2][14] The Binghamton University Alumni Association gave him Glenn G. Bartle Distinguished Alumnus/a Award in 2015.[15]

He was awarded the Society of Labor Economists' 2011 Jacob Mincer Lifetime Achievement Award[16] and the Association for the Study of Higher Education's 2013 Howard Bowen Distinguished Career Award.[17]

Cornell University honored him in 2014 by creating the Ronald G. Ehrenberg Professorship in Labor Economics position at the university.[18] In April 2018 he was named a recipient of the SUNY Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Faculty Service.[19]

A conference entitled "Ron Ehrenberg: His Life and Economics" organized by his former students was held on June 3–4 at the ILR Conference Center in King-Shaw Hall, Cornell University.[20] A conference volume "Ron Ehrenberg: His Life and Economics" provides conference details, a biography, a list of doctoral students, a series of articles and photographs offering tributes, five essays by Ehrenberg ("My Life and Economics," "Last Lecture," "Being a Quadruple Threat Keeps it Interesting," "Coauthors and Collaborations," and "Involving Undergraduates in Research to Encourage Them to Undertake Ph.D. Study in Economics"), and a "List of Completed Articles & Books by Ronald G. Ehrenberg."[21]

• R. G. Ehrenberg (editor), American University: National Treasure or Endangered Species, Cornell University Press, 1997.
• R. G. Ehrenberg, Tuition Rising: Why College Costs So Much, Harvard University Press, 2002.
• R. G. Ehrenberg (editor), Governing Academia, Cornell University Press, 2004.
• R. G. Ehrenberg, What’s Happening to Public Higher Education? Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007.
• P. E. Stephan and R. G. Ehrenberg (editors), Science and the University, University of Wisconsin Press, 2007.
• R. G. Ehrenberg, Doctoral Education and the Faculty of the Future, Cornell University Press, 2008.
• R. G. Ehrenberg, H. Zuckerman, J. A. Groen, and S. M. Brucker, Educating Scholars: Doctoral Education in the Humanities, Princeton University Press, 2010.

• from Cornell University
• Cornell Higher Education Research Institute