Katherine (Kat) Morand

Ms. Kat Morand is an Instructor of Economics at High Point University, where she teaches Microeconomics, Macroeconomics, and Labor Economics. She also serves as Chair of the Phillips School of Business Ai Integration Initiative, leading efforts to explore and advance the thoughtful integration of artificial intelligence across business education. Her academic interests center on labor economics, education, public policy, and the ways institutions shape individual choices and opportunities. She joined the faculty full-time after two years as an adjunct instructor.

Her research and professional experience span higher education and public policy. She has contributed to research examining gender disparities in academic performance and partnered with the North Carolina Department of Health and Human Services to help launch Tiered Care Coordination and High Fidelity Wraparound, programs designed to support families with complex behavioral health needs. Her broader interests focus on how economic and social systems influence the opportunities, constraints, and decisions people face.

In the classroom, students know her as Professor Kat. Her teaching emphasizes making economics accessible while encouraging students to connect economic ideas to real-world institutions, policy debates, and everyday decisions. She focuses on helping students build confidence with unfamiliar material and develop sharper, more critical questions about the economic systems around them.

A High Point native, Ms. Morand has longstanding ties to the community surrounding HPU. Her path from growing up and attending school in High Point to joining the university’s faculty gives her a particular appreciation for the opportunity to teach and work in the community that shaped her. She remains especially interested in work that connects education, economic opportunity, and the institutions that shape people’s lives.