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When Kjell Christophersen moved to America from Norway and ended up getting a PhD in economics at Washington State University, he found that jobs in academia were uncertain. He worked on World Bank and USAID projects traveling to foreign countries and caught the traveling bug.
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Mar 1, 2021 · The story of an academic who ended up becoming a world traveler. When Kjell Christophersen moved to America from Norway and ended up getting a PhD in economics at Washington State University, he found that jobs in academia were uncertain.
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Kjell Christophersen is a senior economist with 35 years of international and domestic experience. He is the co-founder of Economic Modeling Specialists—EMSI—a company specializing in...
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Sep 23, 2019 · You met Emsi’s founders, Kjell Christophersen and Henry Robison, because they were members of Christ Church. They found you through the church office, when Christophersen called looking for someone to fix his printer.
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The first challenge for legislators is to assess which institutions benefit the region or state the most — the community colleges or the universities? This obviously is a challenging task, and not one we are seeking to resolve here. We are certainly in favor of both sectors, because education is generating returns to both students and taxpayers tha...
Another argument community college leaders can invoke for more funding relative to the universities is that the rewards to education for the majority of their students tend to be greater than for university students for the time and money spent. Students who attend college from one year shy of a high school diploma to high school plus two years (in...
A third argument is that more community college students are also gainfully employed (at least part-time) while attending college (68 percent) than university students (57 percent), so they invest less. Their opportunity cost of time, therefore, is lower than it is for university students. This is another reason that the return on investment (ROI) ...
Our origin story is in the books! Emsi co-founder and senior economist Dr. Kjell Christophersen recently published Community Colleges as Economic Engines. It tells the story of the economic impact...
For Kjell, John, Ed, and Skipper, sailing is about far more than simply passing time on the water. It's about the love of familiar faces and the thirst for new horizons - on land or sea. It's about the bond created by the sheer accumulation of memories, just a few of which are in this book.
