Economic professor M. Ryan Haley in the College of Business at the University of Wisconsin Oshkosh will serve as the midyear commencement faculty speaker.
Haley has taught at UW Oshkosh since 2004, serving as chair of the economics department from 2012 to 2015. He currently chairs the University Budget Development Committee, where he is working on development and implementation of a new University budget model.
Haley’s teaching evaluation scores are at or near the top of his department. One student said: “In the classroom, he succeeded in grabbing my attention and drawing me into the complexities of an intermediate-level economics class. He shaped my future by inspiring me to attend graduate school for economics.”
In December 2011, Haley completed a large-scale, federal grant designed to improve statistics learning outcomes while simultaneously reducing textbook costs. He also completed a two-year Federal Department of Education grant, which supported the development of a peer-reviewed, core-concepts, in-house-authored, electronic textbook with professor-specific appendices for economics and business statistics. Because of the grant, students saved more than $140,000 relative to new textbook costs. Within three additional semesters of use, student savings will be more than the total grant award—an excellent example of how a grant can create an enormous amount of savings for current and future students.
Haley received his doctorate in economics from the University of Iowa.
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