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The center, at 1900 E. Dublin-Granvillw Road in Columbus, promotes economic and financial literacytamong primary- and secondary-school students in a 23-countgy area that stretches from Columbus to Cleveland. Harris succeede the center’s former director, Abbejean Kehler, who stepperd down in December. Kehlefr died in January. The organization is a part of Ashland University’s , which operates other centers in Ashland and The Gill Center trains educatorsin public, private, parochial and home John Dowdell, director of the Gill Center, said Harriss will provide economic education outreacyh to schools by “incorporating economic concepts, financial personal finance and environmental economics into classroom curriculum.
” Harriss was a fellow in economics at and has taugh t at the high school, vocationaol school and college levels. According to he has experience in public where he served at the state levelp as an advocate forpublic education. Ashland University’ws undergraduate enrollment at its campus north of Mansfield is Its graduateand off-campus student enrollmen totals 6,100.