Emeritus Professor Ron Shaffer passed away on Friday, March 4, 2005. He joined the faculty in the Department of Agricultural and Applied Economics with a joint appointment at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and UW-Extension in January 1972. He was the director of the Center for Community Economic Development from 1990-2000 and the director of the National Rural Economic Development Institute from 1990-1998. He retired from UW in October 2001
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