Bernanke Gets Back to His Academic Roots

Kristina Peterson:

When George Washington University adjourns next week, 30 students will be doing 50 pages of assigned monetary policy reading while on their spring break.

The homework wasn't a deterrent to the students who applied to take BADM 4900, a business course that started Tuesday. Boosting the popularity of the half-semester, 1.5-credit course, "Reflections on the Federal Reserve," is its headlining guest lecturer: the central bank's chairman, Ben Bernanke.

Later this month, Mr. Bernanke will become the first sitting Fed chairman to deliver a college lecture series. The move highlights the former professor's push to make the central bank more transparent and accessible by using his academic bona fides to explain the Fed's many unconventional actions since the financial crisis.

Posted by Jim Zellmer at March 7, 2012 3:12 AM
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