M.A.-University of Missouri-Kansas City

M.C.P-Georgia Tech.

Phil Mayer has taught for over 25 years.  He currently serves as a part-time instructor not only for Kennesaw State, but also for Saint Leo University and Oglethorpe University.  He has also taught  full-time, and  temporary appointments for Southwest Mo. State University, Indiana University Southeast, University of Nebraska-Omaha and Mount Mercy College, Cedar Rapids, Iowa. 

Most of his teaching has been  Principles of Microeconomics and the Principles of Macroeconomics courses as well as other introductory level courses such as KSU’s Global Economics.  He has also taught some of the upper-division economics courses including Intermediate Macroeconomics, Intermediate Microeconomics, Money and Banking, Public Finance, Comparative Economic Systems, Labor Economics, International Economics, U.S. Economic History and History of Economic Thought.  He has also taught Statistics and Quantitative Methods (Management Science) and is currently teaching for St. Leo University Global Perspectives, an interdisciplinary course.

He earned an M.A. in 1976 from University Missouri-Kansas City and a M.C.P. (Masters of City Planning) from Georgia Tech in 1991. He also did additional graduate work at the University Nebraska-Lincoln. 

He has worked full-time since 1989 as a city planner for the Cobb County Board of Commissioners.  He served the first 12 years in Planning and Zoning, which is a division of the Community Development Department.  Currently I work for Cobb Community Transit, a division of the Cobb County Department of Transportation.