Rhona C. Free (Ph.D., University of Notre Dame) is a Professor of Economics at Eastern Connecticut State University. Her primary teaching responsibilities are in the areas of labor and political economics. She was honored in 2004 as a Professor of the Year National Winner from The Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching and the Council for Advancement and Support of Education. She was a founding board member of a statewide organization devoted to excellence in teaching (Connecticut Consortium for Learning and Teaching) and another focused on service learning (Connecticut Campus Com...