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Ronald G. Ehrenberg
Cornell University
Irving M. Ives Professor of Industrial and Labor Relations and Economics
Stephen H. Weiss Presidential Fellow
Director - Cornell Higher Education Research Institute
Biography [PDF] - Vita [PDF]
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Ronald G. Ehrenberg is the
Irving M. Ives Professor of Industrial and Labor
Relations and Economics at Cornell University and a Stephen H. Weiss Presidential Fellow. He
also is Director of the Cornell Higher
Education Research Institute and is an elected member of the Cornell Board of Trustee (effective
July 1, 2006). From July 1, 1995 to June 30, 1998
he served as Cornell's Vice President for
Academic Programs, Planning and Budgeting.
As Vice President for
Academic Programs, Planning and Budgeting, Ehrenberg had a variety of responsibilities. He supervised
the office of Institutional Planning and
Research, the office of Statutory College
Affairs, the office of Space Planning &
Utilization, and the office of Academic Programs
and Special Projects. He integrated academic
planning across the colleges in Ithaca (with an
emphasis on strengthening Cornell's social
sciences) and between the Ithaca and Medical
College campuses. He participated as one of four
administrators in the central review of tenure
and promotion decisions, one of four members of
the Executive Budget Group which formulated
budget policies, and as one of six members of the
Capital Funding & Priorities Committee which
approved all capital projects. He also supervised
a number of academic units including the
Cornell-in-Washington Program, the Cornell
Institute for Public Affairs, the Cornell
Plantations (capital projects), the Cornell
University Press, the Herbert F. Johnson Museum
of Art, and Cornell's Air Force, Army, and Navy
ROTC units. He assisted the Provost in
discussions with Academic Deans and the
University Faculty Committee, and for the Provost
served on the Library Board and chaired the
Cornell Institute for Social and Economic
Research Board. He worked with the Academic
Affairs and Campus Life, the Building and
Properties, the Executive, and the Land Grant and
Statutory College Affairs committees of the
Cornell Board of Trustees, as well as with
various Trustee subcommittees and task forces.
Finally, he chaired Cornell's NCAA certification
review. A March 12, 1998 Cornell Chronicle article summarizes a few of his
major accomplishments as Vice-President and
includes comments on his performance from
administrative and faculty colleagues.
Ehrenberg received a B.A. in
mathematics from Harpur College (SUNY Binghamton)
in 1966, a Ph.D. in economics from
Northwestern University in 1970, and an Honorary Doctor of Science from SUNY in 2008. A member of the
Cornell faculty for 32 years, he has authored or
co-authored over 120 papers and authored or edited 20 books. He was
the founding editor of Research in Labor
Economics, and served a ten year term as co-editor of the Journal
of Human Resources. He has served, or is
serving, on several editorial boards and as a
consultant to numerous governmental agencies and
commissions and university and private research
corporations. He is a research associate at
the National Bureau of Economic Research, a research fellow at IZA (Berlin), was a
member of the Executive Committee of the American
Economic Association, chaired the AAUP Committees
on Retirement and the Economic Status of the Profession, and is Past President
of the Society of Labor Economists. He currently chairs the
National Research Council's Board of Higher Education and serves on its committee on Gender Differences
in the Careers of Science,
Engineering and Mathematics Faculty, is a member of the AGB Research Advisory Committee and the College Board's Rethinking
Student Aid Study Group, and is a trustee of Emeriti Retirement Health
Solutions. He is a founding member of the National Academy of Social Insurance
(Unemployment Insurance section), a National Associate of the National Academies of Science and Engineering
and Institute of Medicine, a member of the National Academy of Education, a fellow of the
Society of Labor Economists, and a fellow of the TIAA-CREF Institute.
A noted labor economist and coauthor of the leading textbook, Modern Labor Economics: Theory and Public Policy
(10th ed.), his recent research has focused on higher education issues. He is the editor of American University: National
Treasure or Endangered Species (Cornell University Press, 1997) and the author of Tuition Rising: Why College Costs
So Much (Harvard University Press, 2002). He is the editor of Governing Academia (Cornell University Press 2004),
What's Happening to Public Higher Education? (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2007), coeditor of Science and the University (University of
Wisconsin Press, 2007), Transformational Change in Higher Education: Positioning Colleges and Universities For Future Success (Edward Elgar, 2007),
and Doctoral Education and the Faculty of the Future (Cornell University Press, forthcoming).
Ehrenberg has supervised the dissertations of 39 Ph.D. students and served on committees
for countless more. He is also passionate about undergraduate
education, involves undergraduate students in his research, and has co-authored papers with
a number of these undergraduates. In 2003, ILR-Cornell awarded him the General Mills Foundation Award for Exemplary Undergraduate
Teaching. In 2005, he was named a Stephen H. Weiss Presidential Fellow , the highest award for undergraduate teaching that exists at
Cornell.
Finally, Ehrenberg has served as a consultant to faculty and administrative groups and trustees at a number of colleges and universities on issues
relating to tuition and financial aid policies, faculty compensation policies, faculty retirement policies, and other budgetary, planning, and academic issues. Among the institutions he has worked with are
Brandeis University, Oberlin College, Northeastern University, The University of North Carolina, the
University of Chicago, Vanderbilt University, the U.S. Naval Academy, the National Technical Institute for the Deaf at
the Rochester Institute of Technology, Smith College, the Suffolk University Law School, and Albany University (SUNY). Biography [PDF] - Vita [PDF]
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