Sue Lynn Sasser, Ph.d.

Associate Professor - Department of Economics and International Business

Dr. Sue Lynn Sasser is currently a tenured associate professor of economics and director of the Center for Economic Education at the University of Central Oklahoma in Edmond.  She is also president of the Oklahoma Council on Economic Education – a not-for-profit organization promoting economic and financial literacy across the state. 

Dr. Sasser is also president of the National Association of Economic Educators and serves as the executive committee’s liaison to NAEE’s Professional Development Committee.  She has authored several publications and articles, including two award-winning newspaper series for classroom teachers and students entitled It Just Adds Up and the UCO Business Challenge. 

At UCO, she serves on the Faculty Enhancement Committee and is active in the UCO American Democracy Project, formerly serving as its faculty co-chair. Dr. Sasser previously coordinated the Economics Department student assessment team and was associate director of the Center for Policy Research for two years.  Dr. Sasser has presented numerous papers on economic education and related topics at state, regional and national meetings, and authored several papers on public policy issues impacting the economic well-being of families. 

She is past president of the Oklahoma Jump$tart Coalition for Personal Financial Literacy and was nominated for the 2005 William Odom Award, the highest honor bestowed by the national Jump$tart Coalition for Personal Financial Literacy.   She has been actively involved in economic and personal financial education for almost 30 years.

Dr. Sasser held several positions before entering academia, including program evaluator with the US General Accounting Office and economic education specialist with the Federal Reserve Bank of Dallas.  She has been on faculty at the University of South Dakota, Wayne State College, and William Woods University.  She also served as director of the Centers for Economic Education at USD and Wayne State, as well as associate director of the South Dakota Council on Economic Education.  Prior to joining the UCO faculty in the fall of 2001, she was a family economics specialist with the Texas Extension Service at Texas A&M University in College Station.

A native of Lawton, Oklahoma, Dr. Sasser holds a BA in journalism and a MS in professional services from UCO.  She completed her PhD in consumer economics at Texas Woman’s University and attended Intermediate Banking School at Southern Methodist University. Dr. Sasser enjoys traveling and spending time with friends and family, and her dog Lily.