The Vermont Council on Economic Education is a non profit 501(c)3 corporation. We are one of the 49 independent state councils of economic education (New Hampshire doesn't have one) who work with the National Council on Economic Education to promote economic education and economic literacy. The National Council, founded in 1949, publishes a wide variety of lesson plans and materials for teachers at all grade levels. The Vermont Council offers workshops, courses, and training for teachers who want to learn to teach economics in their classroom.

Biography of Art Woolf, president of the Vermont Council:

Arthur Woolf received his B.A. degree in history from Cornell University in 1973. He attended graduate school in economics at the University of Wisconsin--Madison and received his Ph.D. in 1980. He began teaching at the University of Vermont in 1980 where he is currently associate professor of economics (on leave) and president of the Vermont Council on Economic Education. In 1987 he was visiting economist at the Center for Energy Policy Studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and in 1988 he was appointed Vermont State Economist by Governor Madeleine Kunin, a position he held until January 1991.

In 1995 he spent four weeks in Petrozavodsk, the largest city in the province of Karelia, as part of the UVM-Petrozavodsk State University partnership program. At UVM, he teaches a variety of economics courses, including a class on the Vermont economy. He was a member of the Executive Committee of the Center for Research on Vermont from 1996 to 2000.

Woolf's community work includes membership on the Westford School Board from 1985 to 1987. He was also a member of the Lake Champlain Basin Program's Technical Advisory Committee from 1991 to 1997. He is currently chair of the board of the Vermont Student Opportunity Scholarship Fund.

Professor Woolf has published articles in academic journals and contributed chapters to books on a variety of economic subjects. He is author of the chapter titled 'Taxation in Vermont' in the recently published Vermont State Government and Administration Since 1965. He has written and lectured widely within the state on Vermont economic and policy issues, including taxation and spending, education finance, housing, population and demographic trends, and economic development. During the 1990s he was a contributing editor of Vermont Magazine, writing a column on the Vermont economy. He is also the editor of The Vermont Economy Newsletter and president of Northern Economic Consulting, Inc.

Art Woolf lives on a 140 acre farm in Westford with his wife, Celeste Gaspari, and their two children.

<-- Back to Main Page