McDaniel College elects Hopewell resident to Board

William M. Rodgers, III, of Hopewell, N.J., has joined McDaniel College's Board of Trustees.

Rodgers is a professor of public policy at Rutgers University’s Edward J. Bloustein School of Planning and Public Policy and chief economist at the Heldrich Center for Workforce Development. He serves as board chair of the National Academy of Social Insurance and as treasurer of the Institute for Women’s Policy Research, as well as a non-resident fellow at The Century Foundation and senior fellow at the Schwartz Center for Economic Policy Analysis. He was appointed the chief economist at the U.S. Department of Labor while he was the Frances and Edwin L. Cummings Associate Professor of Economics at the College of William and Mary. He has also served on the National Urban League’s Council of Economic Advisors and President Obama’s Department of Labor transition team. He is frequently asked to provide expertise to The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, CNBC, NBC’s “Meet the Press” and National Public Radio’s “Marketplace,” among others. He earned a bachelor’s degree from Dartmouth College, master’s degree from the University of California, Santa Barbara, and Ph.D. from Harvard University. A former parent visitor to the McDaniel Board of Trustees, his son, William M. “Billy” Rodgers, IV, graduated from McDaniel in May 2019.

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McDaniel College, founded in 1867, is a four-year, independent college of the liberal arts and sciences offering more than 70 undergraduate programs of study, including pre-professional specializations and student-designed majors, and over 20 graduate programs. One of 40 "Colleges That Change Lives," McDaniel emphasizes experiential learning and student-faculty collaboration to develop the unique potential in every student. Represented by the Green Terror, its 24 athletic teams compete in the NCAA Division III Centennial Conference. A student-centered community of 1,600 undergraduates and 1,400 graduate students offers access to both Baltimore and Washington, D.C., plus a European campus in Budapest, Hungary. www.mcdaniel.edu