Richard McGregory is Interim Director for Academic Support Services and Lecturer of Economics at the University of Wisconsin-Whitewater.  He received: PhD, Economics, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee; MBA, Marketing/Management, University of Wisconsin-Whitewater; BBA, Marketing, University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh.  His primary interests are in the following areas: healthcare; industrial organization; labor economics; education policy and student achievement.  Works in progress include research on the following: labor market of nurses; African American student achievement; impact of small scale privatization in the Cuban economy. He has previously served as Treasurer, Research Association of Minority Professors, and currently serves as a member of the faculty advisory committee, National Black Student Union and the Director of the Center for the Study of Black Students.