{"id":24924,"date":"2026-04-02T10:50:18","date_gmt":"2026-04-02T14:50:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/?p=24924"},"modified":"2026-04-02T12:13:13","modified_gmt":"2026-04-02T16:13:13","slug":"charlton-center-to-host-hon-philip-jefferson-at-annual-speaker-series-april-7","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/2026\/04\/02\/charlton-center-to-host-hon-philip-jefferson-at-annual-speaker-series-april-7\/","title":{"rendered":"Charlton Center to host the Hon. Philip Jefferson at annual Speaker Series, April 7"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-24925\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/106\/2026\/02\/jefferson.jpg?resize=187%2C241&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"187\" height=\"241\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/106\/2026\/02\/jefferson.jpg?resize=233%2C300&amp;ssl=1 233w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/106\/2026\/02\/jefferson.jpg?w=398&amp;ssl=1 398w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 187px) 100vw, 187px\" data-recalc-dims=\"1\" \/>The <a href=\"https:\/\/business.udmercy.edu\/\">College of Business Administration<\/a>&#8216;s <a href=\"https:\/\/business.udmercy.edu\/centers\/charlton.php\">Charlton Center for Responsible Investing<\/a> will host The Honorable Philip Jefferson, vice chair of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, as guest speaker at its fourth annual Speaker Series.<\/p>\n<p>The presentation will take place on <strong>Tuesday, April 7, at 5:30 p.m.,<\/strong> in the Student Union Ballroom.<\/p>\n<p>As the second highest ranking official in the U.S. central banking system and a voting member of the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC), Jefferson plays an important role in the Federal Reserve&#8217;s progress toward its dual mandate of maximum employment and stable prices. He has held prominent academic leadership roles, including serving as the dean of faculty and the Paul B. Freeland professor of economics at Davidson College. Jefferson also served as chair of the Department of Economics at Swarthmore College, where he was the centennial professor of economics.<\/p>\n<p>All are welcome to attend this <strong>free<\/strong> event, and advance registration is required.<\/p>\n<h4><a href=\"https:\/\/charltoncenterspeakerseri.rsvpify.com\">Register here.<\/a><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Honorable Philip Jefferson, vice chair of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, will be the featured speaker in the Charlton Center for Responsible Investing&#8217;s fourth annual Speaker Series on April 7.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":677,"featured_media":24925,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[6,4404],"tags":[7323,130,1286,1287,4019,2195],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/106\/2026\/02\/jefferson.jpg?fit=398%2C512&ssl=1","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pbwnTV-6u0","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24924"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/677"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24924"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24924\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24935,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24924\/revisions\/24935"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24925"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.udmercy.edu\/campusconnection\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}