Person

Froomkin, Joseph

1927–2017

Ph.D. in economics from University of Chicago; program planner at IBM, managed its Data Processing Division’s market research department 1957-1966; 1966 became Assistant Commission for Program Planning and Evaluation at U.S. Office of Education (then part of Department of Health, Education and Welfare); after leaving government he operated his own economic consulting firm for more than 2 decades; founded and ran HEW’s Educational Policy Research Center for Higher Education and Society; born in Harbin, China in 1927; grew up there and in Shanghai; graduated from St. John’s University in Shanghai at 19; came to US at age 20 to study at University of Chicago, received MBA and then Ph.D. in economics in 1950