Established in 1983 by Oscar and Pearl Husby and Joseph and Mary Husby to honor Senior Vice President David E. Johnson ’38, the purpose of this Chair is to enhance the general reputation of St. Olaf by bringing to St. Olaf a person of recognized competence in the field of business or economics. Oscar Husby served on the St. Olaf Board of Regents from 1966 to 1980, and as chairman of the Board from 1976 to 1980. The first holder of the Husby-Johnson chair was Leon Hollerman, a specialist in Asian economies; subsequent holders have been professors of economics, Bruce R. Dalgaard, Kathy Chadwick, Paul Wojick, David Emery, Anthony Becker and Rebecca Judge.
Current Chair:
Rick Goedde has taught courses in investments, corporate finance, and management in the Management Studies Program within the Economics Department at St. Olaf College. He incorporates a variety of teaching/learning strategies within the Team-Based Learning (TBL) framework, including Just-in-Time Teaching (JiTT), online business and investment simulations, and unstructured case studies. His research interests include stock investment systems, asset allocation/portfolio rebalancing, and the development of personal endowments. He did both his undergraduate and graduate work in accounting and finance at the University of Wisconsin – Madison.
Rick specializes in combining Just-in-Time Teaching (JiTT) with Team-Based Learning in order to increase individual accountability on challenging team applications. JiTT requires students to submit answers to instructor-posed questions a few hours before class time using course management software (Moodle, etc.) In a traditional JiTT classroom, the instructor can quickly look at the answers before class and be better prepared to clarify difficult topics, while spending less time on topics that the students understand. In a TBL classroom, JiTT has the double benefit of better preparing students to work on a challenging application with their teams and better preparing instructors to facilitate the discussion of the application because they have insight into what students are thinking about a particular application.