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UC Welcomes Professor, Director of Business and Economics

Whalen Former Associate Economics Editor for BusinessWeek

Written By Amanda Damiano, PR Intern

Contact - cleogrande@utica.edu

Utica College has named Charles J. Whalen professor and director of business and economics. 

Whalen, a native of the greater Boston area, has served as a professor at Cornell University in the School of Industrial and Labor Relations, Hobart and William Smith Colleges, and Wells College. 

A former Fulbright Senior Scholar and visiting professor at Zhongshan University in Guangzhou, China in 1998-1999, Whalen went on to sit on the Fulbright Scholar Review Committee for China, Taiwan, and Hong Kong. 

Whalen has also worked as associate economics editor for BusinessWeek, where he provided analysis and commentary on the U.S. economy. 

He has written extensively for both academic and non-academic audiences. His recent books include Political Economy for the 21st Century, New Directions in the Study of Work and Employment, and he is currently preparing Human Resource Economics and Public Policy.

Whalen also serves as editor of Perspectives on Work, a journal published by the Labor and Employment Relations Association. In addition, he is a visiting fellow at Cornell University School of Industrial and Labor Relations. 

Whalen earned his Ph.D. in economics from The University of Texas at Austin, and holds an undergraduate degree from Cornell University.

About Utica College – Founded in 1946, Utica College is a comprehensive private institution that grants the Syracuse University baccalaureate degree and the Utica College master’s and doctoral degrees. The College, located in central New York, approximately 90 miles west of Albany and 50 miles east of Syracuse, currently enrolls nearly 3,000 undergraduate and graduate students in 32 undergraduate majors, 26 minors, 13 master’s and two doctoral degree programs.

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