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Business School Professor Names Classroom in Parents’ Memory
Albert Williams, Ph.D.
Albert Williams, Ph.D., associate professor of Finance and Economics at the H. Wayne Huizenga School of Business and Entrepreneurship, has made a gift to the Business School, naming a classroom in memory of his parents, Mr. Alexander Albert Williams and Mrs. Ellane Williams Nee Woodye.
Classroom 3030 on the third floor of the Carl DeSantis Building will be named the “Albert A. Williams” classroom. With little formal education, the Williams made sacrifices to ensure that their ten children received a high school education. Their strong commitment to education has carried on to the grandchildren of whom many have obtained doctorate, masters’, and bachelors’ degrees.
Williams completed a bachelors’ degree in education, majoring in mathematics at the University of Calgary, Canada. He pursued a masters’ degree in applied economics at the University of Georgia, and also completed a doctorate degree in agricultural and applied economics at the same university. His varied experience includes but is not limited to having taught mathematics, working as an agricultural economist with the government, and serving as chief executive officer of a quasi-government agricultural marketing firm in Belize.
Williams joined the Huizenga Business School in 2003 as adjunct professor, teaching both undergraduate and graduate economics and finance courses. In 2013, he was promoted to associate professor. His down-to-earth teaching style, many community lectures, radio, and television presentations have earned him numerous awards for excellence and service. Williams’ philosophy is to make the world a better place – one student at a time.
