Real estate scholar named at business school

Rod Matthews, a senior lecturer at the School of Business, has been named the Wisconsin Real Estate Alumni Association Distinguished Scholar for his innovations in and out of the classroom.

Matthews, a former Dane County Executive, has taught real estate and international business in the business school for the past 25 years. He is also an attorney in Madison.

Matthews’ intensive international study courses have brought delegations of business students to Asia, Europe and South America where they met with business and political leaders. The courses focused on real estate and economic development. Matthews also is noted for bringing international guest lecturers to his international business classes through the business school’s video conferencing network.

In 1995, he was named director of the Land and Real Estate Reform for the Russian Privatization Center in Moscow.

The Wisconsin Real Estate Alumni Association consists of more than 1,200 UW–Madison real estate graduates and associates.