ELIZABETH FIELD HENDREY
EDUCATION
Ph.D., Duke University, 1985, Economics. M.A., Duke University, 1981, Economics.
A.B., Princeton University, cum laude, 1977, Economics.
ACADEMIC APPOINTMENTS
Professor of Economics, Queens College and Graduate Center, CUNY, 2001-present Visiting Professor, Lehigh University, Spring 2011
Associate Professor of Economics, Queens College and Graduate Center, CUNY, 1995-2000 Visiting Fellow, University of Essex, Colchester, UK, 1996
Visiting Scholar, Dept. of Economics, University of North Carolina, 1995
Assistant Professor of Economics, Queens College and Graduate Center, CUNY, 1989-1994 Visiting Assistant Professor of Economics, Hamilton College, Clinton, NY, 1987-9
Adjunct lecturer, Economics Department, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL, 1985-7 Instructor of Economics, Duke University, Durham, NC, 1984-5
Visiting Assistant Professor of Economics, University of North Florida, 1982-4
OTHER EMPLOYMENT EXPERIENCE
Chief Economist, Office of Planning and Research, Florida Department of Environmental Regulation, Tallahassee, FL, 1985-87
ADMINISTRATIVE EXPERIENCE
Dean of Social Sciences, Queens College, CUNY, 2005-present
Manage $21.7 million budget, oversee 10 departments with 185 full-time faculty and approximately 200 adjuncts. The Division includes all business programs in the College as well as traditional social science departments and pre-professional programs.
• Oversee widely varied group of departments including Accounting and Information Systems, Anthropology, Economics, History, Graduate School of Library and Information Studies, Philosophy, Political Science, Sociology, Student Personnel, Urban Studies, Business and Liberal Arts and Journalism minors. (Over 1000 students with majors in the division earn undergraduate degrees annually, and over 300 master’s degrees are awarded.)
• Hired over 30 tenure track faculty members
• Initiated and developed MS in Risk Management, with concentrations in Accounting, Finance, and Dynamic Financial Analysis. Brought in program director with extensive industry experience and worked to secure $5.5 million software donation to support programs.
• Worked with a founding donor to develop the Schutzman Entrepreneurship Center at Queens College, and secured CUNY approval for the center (launched 2008).
o Activities include offering special topics courses in entrepreneurship, sponsoring an entrepreneurship club, securing internships, and annual conferences which expose students to entrepreneurs from around the country
• Engaged in community and alumni outreach
o Worked with PricewaterhouseCoopers and JPMorgan Chase to begin Queens College Business Forum in 2005, which holds four breakfast seminars each year to bring noted speakers to campus; currently sponsored by TD Bank, PricewaterhouseCoopers, Farrell Fritz, LLC, as well as the Queens Economic Development Corporation and Queens Chamber of Commerce. Funds two scholarships each year as well as the seminars.
o Developed and launched Queens College Business Advisory Board 2010. Membership represents all areas of business programs including partners in Big-4 accounting firms, financial services and insurance executive, entrepreneurs and venture capitalists.
• Envisioned and developed Immigration Studies Working Group, inaugurated March 2012, launched Immigration Studies Summer Awards. Hired director and co-director to develop Center for Immigration Studies at Queens College.
• Founded Dean’s Young Professionals Program 2011. Provides top students with mentoring and coaching by alumni and other business leaders, to enhance opportunities for internships and job placement.
• Expanded prelaw program, secured increased funding for new prelaw advisor. This has resulted in development of a handbook and database of prelaw students to track success with LSAT and law school admission, as well as increased outreach to alumni and additional prelaw events.
Chair, Department of Economics, Queens College, CUNY, 2001-2005
• Increased faculty from 14 to 20 tenured and tenure track • 25% increase in enrollments in economics
Director, Queens College Bachelors of Business Administration Program, 2003-2005
• Designed, developed and secured approval for a new Program in Business Administration, with majors in finance, international business and actuarial studies (housed in Department of Economics.) Since inception, enrollments have risen to 1500 students each term.
Deputy Chair, Department of Economics, Queens College, 1999-2001
• Chaired curriculum committee and oversaw all curriculum revisions
• Evaluated majors for graduation and oversaw departmental honors and awards
OTHER PLANNING AND MANAGEMENT EXPERIENCE
• Co-chair for development of a new Queens College Strategic Plan 2011-12 • Lehigh University Strategic Planning Implementation Committee 2010-11 • Queens College Strategic Planning Steering Committee, 2007-present • Strategic Planning Council 2006-7
o Co-chair, Quality of Life for the Campus Community
LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT ACTIVITIES
American Council on Education Fellowship 2010-11 • Hosted by Lehigh University, Spring 2011
o Participated in Lehigh Strategic Planning Implementation Group, Provost’s Council, Council of Deans, Space Planning Committee
• Member, Leadership Team, Lehigh NSF ADVANCE grant
o Wrote a white paper on best practices for promotion and tenure for interdisciplinary research; Lehigh has formed a committee to review P&T guidelines
o Researched women’s leadership development programs
• Participated in three week-long leadership development seminars presented by ACE, covering topics ranging from budgeting to legal issues in academics to diversity case studies to fundraising
Society for College and University Planners, Planning Institutes I, II and III, 2010-12
Council for the Advancement and Support of Education Advanced Development for Deans Conference, 2010
Council for the Advancement and Support of Education Development for Deans Conference, 2007
PricewaterhouseCoopers University for Faculty, 2006
Community Counseling Service Institute of Fundraising Education, Seminar on Developing Major Gift Strategies, 2006
Association of Colleges and Schools of Business Advisory Council Seminar, Philadelphia PA 2004
Department Chair Leadership Program, CUNY Office of Faculty and Staff Relations, 2003 Association to Advance Colleges and Schools of Business Accreditation Seminar, Washington DC 2003
SERVICE University
• CUNY Fundraising Academy, Deans Panel, Feb. 2010 • CUNY Enterprise Resource Planning, Deans Group, 2007 • CUNY Taskforce on Quantitative Literacy, 2007
• University Committee on Research Awards Review Panel in Economics, Finance, and Accounting 2005-6
College
• Member, President’s Cabinet
• 75th Anniversary Steering Committee, 2012
• Queens College Foundations of Excellence Task Force, Committee on Faculty, 2011-12 • Senate Committee on Pathways Initiative (new CUNY General Education Initiative) • Liaison to The Ph.D. Project (promotes diversity in business faculty), 2007-present • Ph.D. Science Programs Review Committee 2005
• Professional Education Council 2005-present • College Internship Advisory Board 2005-present • Faculty Internship Committee 2002-5
• College-wide tenure and promotions committee, 2003-4, 2004-5 • College Budget Committee, 2002-2005, chaired committee 2003-5 • Summer Session Committee 2004
• Scheduling Matrix Committee, 2003
• Business and Liberal Arts Advisory Board 2002-present
• 1999-2001, Writing Intensive Sub-Committee, Queens College Undergraduate Curriculum Committee.
• Queens College Academic Senate, 1998-2000.
Department
• Department Personnel and Budget Committee, 2001-2005
• Economics Honor Society Faculty Advisor, 1993-5, 1996-1999. • Liaison, Queens College Cooperative Education Program, 1994-1995.
National
• American Council on Education Council of Fellows Outreach and Engagement Committee
• External reviewer, Ohio University Department of Economics self study • Grant reviewer, National Science Foundation
• Journal referee: American Economic Review, Southern Economic Journal, Explorations in Economic History, Applied Economics, Review of Economics and Statistics, Journal of Human Resources
• Co-Chair, Columbia University Seminar in Economic History
Community
• Member, Advisory Board, Greater Flushing Chamber of Commerce
• Past Member (elected), Board of Education, Shoreham-Wading River (SWR) Central School District, SWR Budget Committee, SWR Academic Advisory Committee
PUBLICATIONS
“The Efficiency of Free and Slave Agriculture in the Antebellum United States: A Stochastic Production Function Approach.”(With Lee Craig, N.C. State Univ.) In Slavery in the Development of the Americas, Ed. David Eltis et al, Cambridge University Press, 2004. “Marriage and Home-Based Work” in Marriage and the Economy, ed. Shoshana
Grossbard-Schectmann, San Diego State University, Cambridge University Press. (With Linda Edwards, CUNY Graduate Center.) 2003.
"Home-Based Work and Women's Labor Force Decisions." With Linda Edwards, CUNY Graduate Center, Journal of Labor Economics. 2002.
“Work Site and Work Hours: The Labor Force Flexibility of Home-Based Women Workers.” With Linda Edwards, CUNY Graduate Center. In Working Time in Comparative Perspective, Vol. II, ed. Susan Houseman and Alice Nakamura, Upjohn Institute, 2001. "The Role of Gender in Biased Technical Change: 1850-1919." Journal of Economic History,
Dec. 1998.
"Home-Based Workers: Data From the 1990 Census of Population." With Linda Edwards, CUNY Graduate Center. Monthly Labor Review, November 1996, pp. 26-34.
"Unions and Productivity in the Public Sector: The Case of Sanitation Workers," with Linda Edwards, CUNY Graduate Center. Research in Labor Economics, Vol. 15, 1996, pp. 305-328.
"Application of a Stochastic Production Frontier to Slave Agriculture: An Extension." Applied Economics, Vol. 27, 1996, pp.363-368.
Journal of Economic History, 1995, Vol. 55, No. 3, p. 741.
"Industrialization and the Earnings Gap: Regional and Sectoral Tests of the Goldin-Sokoloff Hypothesis," Explorations in Economic History, 1993,Vol. 30, pp. 60-80. With Lee Craig, N.C. State University.
"Assimilation and Earnings of Female Immigrants," Applied Economics, 1991, Vol. 23. No. 10, pp.1665-1672. With Erol Balkan, Hamilton College.
"Free and Slave Labor on Large and Small Farms: Perfect Substitutes or Different Inputs?" The Review of Economics and Statistics, Vol.70, 1988, No. 4, pp. 654-659.
"The Relative Efficiency of Slavery Revisited: A Translog Production Function Approach," The American Economic Review, Vol.78, 1988, No. 3, pp. 543-549
GRANTS
External
National Science Foundation, “Home-based Work and Labor Force Decisions,” joint with Linda Edwards, $62,129
Upjohn Institute Policy Research Grant “Home-based Work and Labor Force Decisions,” joint with Linda Edwards (declined for NSF)
Internal
PSC-CUNY Grant. Title: “Family Day Care: An Occupational Option for Home-based Women Workers.”
PSC-CUNY Grant. Title: "Male-Female Substitution in Manufacturing: Nineteenth Century United States Manufacturing"
SELECTED PRESENTATIONS
Panel participant, “Building Leadership for US Colleges and Universities: A Look at Leadership, and the ACE Fellows Program,” SCUP 46, Society for College and University Planning Annual International Conference
“Home-Based Work and Women’s Labor Force Decisions,” Society of Labor Economists, with Linda Edwards
“Work Site and Work Hours,” Upjohn Conference on Changes in Working Time, With Linda Edwards
“Wage Discrimination in Nineteenth Century Manufacturing,” Allied Social Science Association “Unions and Productivity,” Allied Social Science Association
MISCELLANEOUS
Queens Top Woman in Business Award, 2009
