Date: Jan. 9, 2008
Contact: Carol Connelly, Director,
Media & Communication Services, ext. 5267, cconnelly@pnc.edu
PNC ECONTRENDS Publication Offers New Information
Westville – Purdue University North Central publication, ECONTRENDS, a business report for LaPorte and Porter counties has been expanded to offer more information.
ECONTRENDS is written by Dr. Tantatape Brahmasrene, PNC professor of Business. Published several times a year, ECONTRENDS examines the business and economic climate, labor and employment markets, analysis of wages, sales and retail numbers, plus new information that includes news about the PNC College of Business faculty and other information of general interest.
In this issue, Brahmasrene describes his recent Fulbright Senior Specialists project in Kazakhstan at the Ryskulov Kazakh Economic University. He aided the Ryskulov Kazakh Economic University (KAZEU) in creating a western-model Ph.D. program in business economics and in the development and assessment of academic curricula.
ECONTRENDS is now a full-color, eight-page publication information and analysis by Brahmasrene is supplemented with charts and graphs, presented in an easily read format.
Brahmasrene is a 2001 J. William Fulbright Senior Scholar and a 2003 Fulbright Senior Specialist.
ECONTRENDS is mailed without charge to interested subscribers and is available on the PNC website at: http://www.pnc.edu/depts/gb/econtrends.html. To subscribe, send name and complete mailing address to campus_relations@pnc.edu
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Note to editor: A photo of ECONTRENDS can be found at http://www.pnc.edu/cd/news/newsphotos/econtrends.jpg
