Center For Economic Education

An office in the College of Business and Economics

The University of Wisconsin-River Falls College of Business and Economics (CBE) proudly announces the formation of its Center for Economic Education. This is the newest of nine centers at four-year institutions within Wisconsin. Our service area is K-12 school districts in CESA 10 and 11.

Located within the CBE's Economics Department in South Hall, the Center is well structured to provide educators with valuable assistance. K-12 educators can participate in many different Center-sponsored and organized activities. These activities will include workshops, in-service training, graduate courses, access to a well-stocked library of resources, training for the "The Stock Market Game", access to CBE professors as classroom speakers and information specialists, and Internet interaction with UWRF faculty members.

The Center's activities will be conducted in a variety of different methods and locations. Some activities will be held on the UW-River Falls campus. Events will also be scheduled at locations within CESA 10 and 11. Distance education technologies will be used to reach multiple locations. The Internet will also provide opportunities for asynchronous courses, student activity pages, and informal interaction with economists.

UW-River Falls CBE faculty will offer courses at times and places convenient for you. These courses will help you develop a deeper understanding of basic economic concepts and give ideas on how to best teach these concepts. Partial tuition scholarships are available for Wisconsin teachers.

The National Council on Economic Education, the Wisconsin Council, and the CBE at UW-River Falls have developed outstanding curricular materials which will be of great use to educators. The UW-River Falls Center for Economic Education maintains an up-to-date collection of these materials.

The UW-River Falls Center for Economic Education will provide economic education training workshops on a variety of topics including assistance with "The Stock Market Game." These workshops will help you include fun and effective materials and projects in your class.