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April 2008
 Volume 17, Issue 5
 The AUBER Newsletter is a quarterly publication of the Association for University Business and Economic Research.
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| Message from the President |  Hi, fellow AUBERites!
Happy spring!
We had a very successful Spring conference in the DC area, held in cooperation with the National Association for Business Economics’ spring policy conference. Over two dozen AUBER members attended. Especially noteworthy were the AUBER sessions organized by VP Sean Snaith (U Central Florida) on the housing situation, and by Bruce Kellison (BOD, UT-Austin) on immigration issues. Thanks for your hard work, guys! The famed AUBER hospitality suite was in session at the conference and gave us a chance to connect with our NABE colleagues. We had some interesting conversations there! If you’ve never come to the spring meeting, you may want to check it out next year. It’s a great chance to meet our corporate brethren (and sistren?) as well as key government officials who make policy. We’d like to sponsor two or three sessions at next year’s NABE meetings. If you’re interest...
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| Fall Conference 2008 |
 The 62nd annual AUBER conference will be at the Semiahmoo Resort, just north of Bellingham, WA. Keynote speakers include David Wyss from Standard & Poor’s and Irving Mintzer, a special advisor to the Dept. of Energy. In addition, Janet Yellen, president of the San Francisco Federal Reserve, is trying to adjust her schedule to join us. The program this year continues the tradition of having sessions that focus on research, management, and outreach. One addition this...
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| 2008 GIC Trips |
 GIC Abroad is particularly tailored to promote face-to-face dialogue with leaders in monetary, political, and social policy, throughout the globe. Many sessions are private and closed to the press so that GIC delegates may engage in open conversation with officials and among themselves. Nearly all trips have a public conference component. GIC abroad trips are frequently limited in size and registrants must be GIC members. Registrations are on a first come, ...
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| A Call for Papers |
 The Bureau of Business Research and Economic Development at Georgia Southern University and the American Association of Retirement Communities (AARC) are calling for research papers on the Economics of the Retiree Services Markets. We are looking for research on a wide range of issues, to include but not necessarily limited to, the following: the economic development impacts of retiree attraction; socio-economic-demographic impacts of retiree attraction; case studies of how ...
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| Spring Conference in Atlanta |
 C2ER, the Council for Community and Economic Research, is holding its annual conference in Atlanta May 13 through 16. A session topic that may be of great interest to AUBERites is “The Demand Driven University.” Other sessions include: Measuring K-12 School Success and Clusters in the Workforce. This is a great place to meet the economists conduct applied research at the state and local level around the country. For more information contact Ms. ...
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| AASCU Article Input |
 The American Association of State Colleges and Universities is writing an article about the automotive industry's movement south and the actions that universities are taking to adjust. Mr. Marcus Skelton, Program Advisor for AASCU, would like to hear from universities in the southern and midwestern states about this matter.
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