Text Box: About us The graduate program in Personal Financial Planning at Texas Tech University is the largest of its kind in the nation. For details visit www.depts.ttu.edu/pfp/ The Graduate Certificate in Charitable Financial Planning is the first graduate program in the nation from a research university to focus specifically on planned giving and charitable financial planning. To co-ordinate faculty and student efforts in the area of charitable financial planning, Russell James, J.D., Ph.D., CFP®, serves as the Director of Graduate Studies in Charitable Planning Dr. James brings a unique variety of perspectives to the study of charitable giving and charitable planning. He graduated, cum laude, from the University of Missouri School of Law where he was a member of the Missouri Law Review. While in law school he received the United Missouri Bank Award for Most Outstanding Work in Gift and Estate Taxation and Planning and the American Jurisprudence Award for Most Outstanding Work in Federal Income Taxation. After graduation, he worked as the Director of Planned Giving for Central Christian College, Moberly, Missouri for six years and also built a successful law practice limited to estate and gift planning. He later served as president of the college for more than five years, where he had direct and supervisory responsibility for all fundraising. During his presidency, the college successfully completed two major capital campaigns and built several new debt-free buildings including a new library building, residence hall, library extension, bookstore, maintenance facility, and athletic fields, along with major renovations of existing classrooms, offices, and residence halls. Dr. James received his Ph.D. in Consumer & Family Economics from the University of Missouri where his dissertation was on charitable giving. In 2006, Dr. James joined the faculty of the University of Georgia. In 2010, Dr. James joined the Division of Personal Financial Planning at Texas Tech University as an Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Studies in Charitable Planning. Dr. James has over 100 publications in print or in press in academic journals, conference proceedings, professional periodicals, and books. He writes regularly for Advancing Philanthropy, the magazine of the Association of Fundraising Professionals. His research is in print or in press at academic journals including: American Review of Public Administration American Journal of Economics & Sociology Applied Economics Applied Economics Letters Educational Gerontology Environment & Behavior Financial Counseling & Planning Financial Services Review Forum for Family & Consumer Issues Housing & Society Housing Policy Debate Housing, Theory, and Society International Journal of Consumer Studies International Journal of Educational Advancement Int’l J. of Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Marketing Journal of the Community Development Society Journal of Consumer Affairs Journal of Consumer Education Journal of Urban Planning & Development Journal of Performance of Constructed Facilities Journal of Personal Finance Migration Letters Missouri Environmental Law & Policy Review Nonprofit & Voluntary Sector Quarterly Review of Religious Research Social Indicators Research Dr. James has presented his research in the U.S. and across the world including as an invited speaker at: Trinity College Dublin - Centre for Nonprofit Management (Dublin, Ireland) Cass Business School - Centre for Charitable Giving & Philanthropy (City of London, England) Vrije Universiteit - Dept. of Philanthropic Studies (Amsterdam, The Netherlands) Giving Korea - The tenth international symposium on giving culture (Seoul, South Korea) Heriot-Watt University - (Edinburgh, Scotland) Universitat Rovira i Virgili - Dept. of Law (Tarragona, Spain) Zittau/Görlitz University of Applied Sciences - (Zittau, Germany) Georgia State University - Nonprofit Studies Program (Atlanta, Georgia) Indiana University - Center on Philanthropy (Indianapolis, Indiana) and at academic conferences in Rotterdam, Dublin, Prague, York, Edinburgh, and across the U.S. Text Box: Department of Personal Financial Planning, Texas Tech University, COHS, Box 41210, Lubbock, TX 79409-1210, Tel: (806) 742-5050, Fax: (806) 742-5033 Text Box: The Graduate Certificate in Charitable Financial Planning at Texas Tech University Text Box: Graduate Certificate in Charitable Financial Planning Program Overview Online Courses Costs How to Apply Free Lectures Free Quizzes Research Findings About Us