News Release

University of Detroit Mercy at Macomb Center named official Center for Economic Education

The National Council on Economic Education and the Michigan Council on Economic Education have designated the University of Detroit Mercy at Macomb University Center as a Center for Economic Education.

UDM Economics Instructor, Joseph Weglarz, will serve as director of the new Center. "The goal of UDM's Center for Economic Education is to promote economic literacy in the schools through teacher professional development while increasing the number of economic education programs from kindergarten through grade 12 as well as on the university and adult levels," he said.

The UDM Center achieves these goals by offering teacher training activities, providing consulting services, performing community outreach such as the on-going symposia series, conducting research, and developing and disseminating standards focused curriculum materials to fit the needs and interests of the individual communities.

The National Council on Economic Education (NCEE) is a nationwide network that leads in promoting economic literacy with students and their teachers. NCEE's mission is to help students develop the real-life skills they need to succeed: to be able to think and choose responsibly as consumers, savers, investors, citizens, members of the workforce, and effective participants in a global economy.

Release date: April 24, 2008

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