Education
He earned his Ph.D. in the Department of Finance at the University of Texas at Austin in 1987 and served as Associate Professor of Real Estate and Finance at Wichita State University for 10 years.
He earned his Ph.D. in the Department of Finance at the University of Texas at Austin in 1987 and served as Associate Professor of Real Estate and Finance at Wichita State University for 10 years.
Prior to his academic career, he was president of Gleneagles Development, Inc., developing residential subdivisions in Wichita, Kansas. He also served as president of Dotzour Inc., Realtors, which was a residential brokerage firm in Wichita.
He has been at the Real Estate Center since August, 1997. Since then, he has published 83 articles in magazines and given over 1,050 presentations to more than 165,000 people. His research findings and comments have been published in the Wall Street Journal , Money Magazine, USA Today and Business Week and was a guest on the Jim Lehrer Newshour on PBS.
Dotzour regularly makes presentations at national and state conventions. His audiences include residential and commercial real estate brokers, bankers, Chambers of Commerce, economic development organizations, homebuilders, construction and engineering firms, CPAs, wealth managers and foundations.
Dr. Dotzour and his wife LuAnn have been married for 37 years. They have two children and two grandchildren. His father was a professional golfer. He grew up on the golf course, but you couldn’t tell it from his current 15 handicap. He and LuAnn have spent a lot of time prowling small bookstores all over America looking for old books about Wall Street, economic history and science fiction