The University of Central Oklahoma’s College of Business will host Andrew Ross Sorkin, author of Too Big To Fail: The Inside Story of How Wall Street and Washington Fought to Save the Financial System – and Themselves.  The lecture and book signing will begin at 10:30am in the Nigh University Center Constitution Hall on Wednesday, August 31, 2011.

The book delivers a behind-the scenes account of how domestic financial problems developed into a global crisis in 2008.  It spent several weeks on the New York Times bestseller list and was nominated for the BBC’s Samuel Johnson prize for non-fiction.  The Economist, The Financial Times and BusinessWeek named Too Big To Fail one of the best books of the year.  Andrew Ross Sorkin is a leading voice about Wall Street and corporate America and New York Magazine described him as “the most famous financial journalist of his generation.”

For more information, visit www.busn.uco.edu or call (405) 974-2822.

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The University of Central Oklahoma Policy Institute will be host for a panel discussion – “Oklahoma’s budget crisis in the midst of recession: What policies should the state pursue to minimize the budget shortfalls?” – from 2 p.m. to 3 p.m. March 25 at UCO’s Nigh University Center.

Panelists will include state Sen. Clark Jolley, R-Edmond; state Rep. Ken Miller, R-Edmond; and David Blatt, director of the Oklahoma Policy Institute. Read the rest of this entry »