An economic analysis of drugs and crime in New York City, an examination of the Asian crisis on emerging markets, an enhancement of global business programs, and a study of higher education marketing are the projects Rider University College of Business Administration's Davis Fellows will undertake for 1998-99. The new Davis Fellows are Drs. The Davis Fellowship program, now in its seventh year, allows business professors to enhance on-going research, move into a new area of intellectual activity, or develop professionally in an area other than research.
Students are the ultimate beneficiaries.
In 1983, Norman S. Davis, a 1908 Rider graduate, gave a gift of Bucks County, PA, farmland to Rider. One of the by-products of these funds is this fellowship program to sustain professional growth of the business faculty. As a Davis Fellow, Dr. Corman will extend previous work she and Naci Mocan, an economics professor at the University of Colorado-Denver, conducted on the economics of crime and the relationship between drug use and crime. They will extend this data through 1996. Dr. Lentz's project will focus on providing enhancements to Rider's global business programs.