[4][5] He also served as the university's vice president for Academic Programs, Planning and Budgeting (1995–1998) and an elected member of the Cornell Board of Trustees (2006–10).

In 2005, he was named a Stephen H. Weiss Presidential Fellow, the highest award for undergraduate teaching that exists at Cornell.

[8] Ehrenberg was the founding editor of "Research in Labor Economics" and served as a co-editor of the Journal of Human Resources.

He coauthored with Robert S. Smith a leading textbook, Modern Labor Economics: Theory and Public Policy (2017, 13th edition).

CHERI's current research interests include "the implications of the growing dispersion of wealth across academic institutions, the growing costs and importance of science to universities, the financial challenges facing public higher education, the changing nature of the faculty, governance in academic institutions, improving PhD programs in the humanities and associated social sciences, improving persistence rates in STEM Field majors, and reducing inequality in access to higher education.

[18] In April 2018 he was named a recipient of the SUNY Chancellor's Award for Excellence in Faculty Service.

[20] A conference volume "Ron Ehrenberg: His Life and Economics" provides conference details, a biography, a list of doctoral students, a series of articles and photographs offering tributes, five essays by Ehrenberg ("My Life and Economics," "Last Lecture," "Being a Quadruple Threat Keeps it Interesting," "Coauthors and Collaborations," and "Involving Undergraduates in Research to Encourage Them to Undertake Ph.D. Study in Economics"), and a "List of Completed Articles & Books by Ronald G.