Professional Bio

Dr. Michael Goodman is Executive Director of Economic Development & Community Partnerships and Professor of Public Policy at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth.   Prior to assuming this role, he served as Senior Advisor to the Chancellor following 18 months of service as Acting Provost and Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs. 

This followed six years of service as Executive Director of the Public Policy Center, two terms as Faculty Senate President, and six years as Chair of the Department of Public Policy.  An economic sociologist, Professor Goodman joined the faculty at UMass Dartmouth in 2009 after serving for eight years as the Director of Economic and Public Policy Research at the UMass Donahue Institute. 

A leading analyst of the Massachusetts economy, Dr. Goodman has authored or co-authored over sixty professional publications on a wide range of public policy issues including regional economic development and housing policy as well as demographic and other applied social science research topics. He has supported this research by generating over $6 million in external grant and contract funding from a diverse array of public and private sources.

Since 2001, Professor Goodman has served as a senior Editor of MassBenchmarks, the journal of the Massachusetts economy published by the UMass Donahue Institute in cooperation with the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston.