According to Jessica Casey, director of Student Activities, approximately 500 undergraduates are eligible to graduate in December this year and more than 325 are expected to participate in the December ceremony. Kemmerer has travelled throughout the developing world, to places as diverse as Haiti, Somalia, Bangladesh, Pakistan and Uzbekistan, to mention a few, as an advisor on the financing and administering of schools, colleges and universities. She has also studied the financing of education here in New York State. This work was done on behalf of the New York State Senate's Education Finance Committee. Economics is about the allocation of resources.
Educational finance involves a set of philosophical as well as practical issues.
The paper will help guide World Bank policy in future interventions in developing nations. Maps, photos, and artifacts from around the world quietly punctuate her office space. Kemmerer is quick to point out that much of her work is undertaken with colleagues, and that most members of the department are accomplished in the area of international education. This was Kemmerer's first visit to Cambodia. Of the ministry personnel she met with in Cambodia, some had masters degrees and some had only primary educations.