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Bruce Larson
Bruce Larson has been a faculty member in the Department of Economics at UNC Asheville since fall 1983, having served eight years as its Chair. He has a B.A. in economics from the University of Wisconsin at Madison and a Ph.D. in economics from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Since fall 2004 Bruce has served as the Director of the Center for Teaching and Learning at UNC Asheville.
Bruce has broad interests. Over his career he has studied and written on: the history of mathematical economics, especially the French tradition; the economics of religion; and the economics of higher education. Most recently, however, his activities have been directed toward developing himself as someone who can "help faculty have extraordinary careers embedded in exceptional lives," and it is in relation to this that he came to discover and appreciate The Learning Paradigm College, by John Tagg, and its powerful message for higher education.
Bruce is a member of the Unitarian Universalist Church of Asheville, having served as its President from June 1992 through May 1994. His wife Jean, a registered nurse with a MSN from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, is a volunteer and community activist. Bruce and Jean have two children, Hope and Will. Hope, a 2004 graduate of the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, is the author of the recently published graphic novel Salamander Dream, and Will, a junior at Centre College in Kentucky, is majoring in computer science with a strong interest in Japanese.
Contact Information
Center for Teaching and Learning
Highsmith Union, CPO 1280
UNC Asheville
One University Heights
Asheville, NC 28804
(828) 250-3896
blarson@unca.edu
