Monday, September 18, 2006
Greg Valentine to serve on international panel
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Dr. Gregory P. Valentine has been invited by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York to serve on an expert panel at an international conference entitled The Role of Central Banks in Economic and Personal Finance Education. The conference will be held September 28-29 in Warsaw, Poland. Valentine is professor of business education at the University of Southern Indiana and director of the USI Center for Economic Education in Southwest Indiana. He said the conference will bring together educators and bankers from across Europe to discuss the need for instruction in economics and personal finance at the high school level. The conference is sponsored jointly by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York and the National Bank of Poland. Valentine will represent the National Business Education Association (NBEA). He is president of the Indiana Business Education Association and chair of the NBEA joint committee on economic education. The USI Center for Economic Education is among 12 centers throughout the state which encourage and support economics education in K-12 classrooms. The USI center will receive the Peter V. Harrington Award for Excellence in the Number of K-12 Teachers Trained from the Indiana Council for Economic Education on November 3 during an annual awards program in Carmel, Indiana. The USI center trained 221 teachers in 12 workshops during 2005-06. |
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