Obama Adviser Goolsbee Said to Consider Returning to Teaching

President Barack Obama’s chief economist, Austan Goolsbee, is considering resigning and returning to the University of Chicago where his leave as a professor is about to expire, according to two people familiar with the matter.

Goolsbee, chairman of the White House Council of Economic Advisers for the past nine months, is awaiting word from the university about whether he would lose his tenured post at the Booth School of Business if he doesn’t return to teach in the fall, said the people, who spoke on condition of anonymity to talk about private discussions.