Steven Myers
Interim Associate Vice President for Instructional Technology and Distance Learning
Associate Professor of Economics
The University of Akron
Akron, Ohio 44325-4740
Phone:  (330) 972-7421
Phone: (330) 972-8122 (secretary)
FAX:  (330) 972-8824
Email:  smyers@uakron.edu

                               Education
                               Experience
                               Responsibilites
                               Selected Accomplishements
                               Selected Publications and Presentations Related to the Project
                               Other Significant Publications

Education

Ph.D., Economics, The Ohio State University, 1980,
M.A., Economics, The Ohio State University, 1976;
M.A., Economics, West Virginia University, 1974;
B.S.Ec., Economics, West Virginia, 1973

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Experience

Interim Associate Vice President and Chief Information Officer since Nov. 1996
Associate Professor of Economics since 1984.
Acting Head, Department of Economics, Nov. 1992 to Aug. 1994
Graduate Research Associate, The National Longitudinal Surveys, Center for Human Resource Research, The Ohio State University, 1974 to 1979.

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Responsibilites

Oversight of Computer Center, Telecommunications, and University Libraries
President's Cabinet
Council of Deans
Governing Board, Ohio Supercomputer Center, vice President Ruebel
Governing Board, OhioLINK, vice Provost Leathers
Advisory Committee, Virtual Branch Campus, Medina Fiber Optics Network
Administrative Programming Oversight Committee
Distance Learning Steering Committee
Web Team
Web Policy Committee

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Selected Accomplishment

Led and wrote policy for Acceptable Use of University Information Resources and the University's WWW Information Publishing Policy.
Caused the formation of an Academic technology center, called the New Media Center to be a central support for faculty in the use of instructional technology.
Helped found a project to create 50 Technology Enhanced Classrooms connected by a fiber backbone to a media distribution headend.
Helped in the creation of the Virtual Branch Campus Project.
Caused to be written: Guidelines for Distance Learning Education at The University of Akron.
Held a competition for faculty to acquire multimedia laptops putting 20 laptops in faculty hands over the last 2 years and supporting them with multimedia producers in the New Media Center

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Selected Publications and Presentations Relating to the Project

• "Building a Virtual Branch Campus of The University of Akron," Keynote Address, ETTCon 98, Dallas, May 11, 1998.
• "Building a Virtual Branch Campus to Serve Medina County," presented to the Medina County Superintendents, May 11, 1998.
• "Keeping Pace With Expectations," Opening Keynote Address, Ohio Association of Registrars and Admissions Officers, November 12, 1997.
• "Faculty Behavior, Grades, and Student Evaluations," (with R. Stratton and R. King) invited paper by the National Council on Economic Education, A.S.S.A. meetings, Jan. 1994.
• "SelfInterest, Grades, and Student Evaluations," (with R. Stratton and R. King) presented to the Midwest Economic Association Annual Meetings, St. Louis, April 4, 1991

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Other Significant Publications

• "Faculty Behavior, Grades, and Student Evaluations" Journal of Economic Education, 25 (1) Winter 1994:516 (with R. Stratton and R. King).
• "The Demand for Abortion by Unmarried Teenagers: Economic Factors, Age, Ethnicity and Religiosity Matter," American Journal of Economics and Sociology 51 (April 1992):22335 (with R. King and D. Byrne).
• "The Short Term Labor Market Consequences of Teenage Pregnancy," Applied Economics 23 (12) December 1991:18191827 (with D. Byrne and R. King).
• "Evaluating the Effectiveness of a Court Sponsored Abuser Treatment Program," Journal of Family Violence 4 (4) (1990):309322. (with H. Chen, C. Bersani, and R. Denton)
• "Forecasting the Economy Using the Composite Leading Index, Its Components, and a Rational Expectations Alternative," in SAS Users Group International Conference Proceeding , SAS Institute Inc. (Cary) 1988, pp. 181186. (with L. Lin)

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