EDUCATION

• Ph.D in Sociology, University of Chicago, 1970.

• M.A. in Sociology, University of Chicago, 1967.

• B. A. in Sociology, University of Chicago, 1965.

TEACHING INTERESTS

• Undergraduate:  Social Statistics, Race and Ethnic Inequality, Social Psychology, Sociology of Education, Sociology of Non-Western Societies,  Social Stratification.

• Graduate: Social Statistics, Research Methods, Advanced Social Statistics, Advanced Research Methods.

PUBLICATIONS

   Recent Articles

• "Educational Pathways into the Evolving Labour Market of West Africa." Research in Sociology of Education 14:225-245, 2004.

• S.L. Morgan and W.R. Morgan.  2002.  "The Evolution of Educational Pathways in a 1,000 Year-Old Labor Market."  Annual Review of Sociology of Education, in press.

• S.L. Morgan and W.R. Morgan. 1998.  Education and Earnings in Nigeria, 1974-1992. Research in Social Stratification and Mobility 16: 3-26.

• W.R. Morgan and S. Ezekiel.  1995.  A Supplementary Education for African-American Children at Risk. Applied Behavioral Science Review 3(2): 147-163.

• W.R. Morgan and J.M. Armer.  1991.  "Structural Accommodation and Cultural Duality:  The Northern Nigerian Education System." International Education 21: 41-48.

• W.R. Morgan and J. Michael Armer.  1988.  "Islamic and Western Educational Accommodation in a West African Society:  A Cohort Comparison Analysis."  American Sociological Review  53:  634-639.

• W.R. Morgan.  1984.  "The Analysis of NLS Youth in Public and Private Schools:  Response to Coleman and Hoffer."  Sociology of Education  57:  122-127.

• W.R. Morgan.  1983.  "Learning and Student Life Quality of Public and Private School Youth."  Sociology of Education 56:  187-202.

• W.R. Morgan, Duane F. Alwin, and Larry J. Griffin.  1979.  "Social Origins, Parental Values, and the Transmission of Inequality."  American Journal of Sociology  85:  156-166.

• W.R. Morgan and Jack Sawyer.  1979.  "Equality, Equity, and Procedural Justice in Social Exchange."  Social Psychology Quarterly  42: 71-75.

• Anne Statham Macke and W.R. Morgan.  1978.  "Maternal Employment, Race, and Work Orientation of High School Girls."  Social Forces  57:  187-204.

• W.R. Morgan.  1975.  "Bales' Role Theory:  An Attribution Theory Interpretation."  Sociometry  38: 429-444.

• Michael Hout and W.R. Morgan.  1975.  "Race and Sex Variations in the Causes of the Expected Attainments of High School Seniors."  American Journal of Sociology  81:  364-394.

• W.R. Morgan and Terry N. Clark.  1973.  "The Causes of Racial Disorders: A Grievance-Level Explanation."  American Sociological Review  28:  611-624.

   Selected Book Chapters

• W. R. Morgan and J.M. Armer.  1992.  "Western versus Islamic Schooling:  Conflict and Accommodation in Nigeria."  Pp. 75-88 in Bruce Fuller and Richard Rubinson, eds., The Political Construction of Education:  The State, School Expansion, and Economic Change.  New York: Praeger.

• W.R. Morgan.  1986.  "Returning to School at Midlife:  Mature Women with Educational  Careers."  Pp. 51-72 in Lois B. Shaw, ed., Midlife Women at Work:  A Fifteen Year Perspective.  Lexington, Mass.:  Lexington Books.

• W.R. Morgan, Herbert S. Parnes, and Lawrence J. Less.  1985.  "Leisure Activities and Social Networks."  Pp. 119-145 in Herbert S. Parnes, et al., Retirement Among American Men.  Lexington, Mass.:  Lexington Books.

• W.R. Morgan.  1984.  "Quantity of Learning and Quality of Life for Public and Private High School Youth."  Pp. 111-156 in Michael E. Borus, ed., Youth and the Labor Market.  Kalamazoo, Michigan:  Upjohn Institute.

• Don Ronchi and W.R. Morgan.  1983.  "Springfield, Ohio:  Persisting and Prevailing."  Pp. 42-52 in Neal Q. Herrick, ed.,  Improving Government: Experiments with QWL Systems.  New York:  Praeger.

• W.R. Morgan and Don Ronchi.  1983.  "Columbus, Ohio: Industrial Democracy or Human Relations?"  Pp. 70-80 in Neal Q. Herrick, ed., Improving Government: Experiments with QWL Systems.  New York: Praeger.

RECENT PAPERS PRESENTED AT PROFESSIONAL MEETINGS

• W.R. Morgan and G. Ruth, Gender-Sensitive Drug Treatment for Women with Children: One Year Outcomes. Presented at annual meetings of American Society of Criminology, Chicago, November, 2002.

  W.R. Morgan and D. Robinson, Residential and Outpatient Treatment for Crack Cocaine Abuse: One Year Outcomes for the Mothers Preadolescent Children.Presented at Building International Research on Drug Abuse: Children and Youth at Risk, annual meetings of NIDA INVEST, the International Program of the National Institute on Drug Abuse, held jointly with the annual meetings of the College on Problems of Drug Dependence, Scottsdale, AZ, June, 2001.

  W.R. Morgan.  How Children Affect Women's Treatment.Binghamton University Conference on Treating Women's Addictions: Research Confronts Reality, Owego, New York,  2000.

  W.R. Morgan.  Children and Mothers in Treatment. Binghamton University Conference on Treating Women's Addictions: Research Confronts Reality, Owego, New York, 2000.

• W.R. Morgan, D. Robinson, and G. Ruth.   It Takes A Village: Educational Gains for Children in Residential Treatment with Chemically Dependent Mothers.Annual Meetings of the American Sociological Association, Washington, D.C, 2000.

FUNDED PROJECTS AND RESEARCH GRANTS

• Principal Investigator, Mothers' Drug Treatment and Children's Resiliency, National Institute on Drug Abuse, 1995-2002 ($2,015,904).

  Principal Investigator, A closed Cases Study I and II, Ohio Department of Job and Family Services [formerly Department of Human Services].   Subcontracted through the primary contractor, the Center for Human Resource Research, The Ohio State University), 1999-2000 ($84,682).

• Principal Investigator, Developing a Supplementary Education Program for Low-Income Youth at the Cleveland African-American Museum, Ohio Board of Regents Urban Universities Program, 1990-92; continuation grant from Urban Child Research Center, 1992-93 ($30,000).

SERVICE TO SOCIAL SCIENCE ASSOCIATIONS

• External proposal reviewer for Sociology Program and Measurement Methods and Data Resources Program, National Science Foundation, 1990-98.Proposal reviewer for Field-Initiated Studies Education Research Grants Program, Office of Educational Research and Improvement, U.S. Department of Education, 1996-00. Review panel chair, 1997.Article referee for Demography, Social Forces, Sociological Focus, Sociological Inquiry, Sociological Quarterly,  Sociological Spectrum, Sociology of Education.External reviewer, social science doctoral candidates (3), University of Madras, India, 1996-98, Andhra University, India, 2002.Cleveland survey director for the Urban Institute's Evaluation of the Lila Wallace-Reader's Digest Fund Seven-City Urban Parks Initiative, 1996-1999.Member, National Advisory Panel for the Public Policy Forum's Private School Choice Accountability Project, funded by the Joyce Foundation, 1996-1998.Executive committee member, Miracle Village Chemical Dependency Treatment Program, Metro Health/ Cuyahoga Metropolitan Housing Authority, 1995-2000.Grievance committee lay member, Cuyahoga County Bar Association, 2000-pres.Member. National Institute on Drug Abuse International Research Exchange Program (INVEST), 2001- .

• Technical Consultant, City of Cleveland/MetroHealth Ward Five AIDS Education Program, 2001-.

UNIVERSITY SERVICE 1990 -- (outside of department)

• B.A. Jones Endowed Lecture Series, Organizing Committee Co-ChairImplementation officer, Bayero University (Nigeria) and Cleveland State University Educational Exchange Program Faculty SenatorGraduate CouncilSearch committees for Acting Dean, Arts and Sciences; for Director, Urban Child Research Center University ComputationalServices CommitteeUniversity Bookstore Advisory CommitteeConvocation Center Advisory Committee UniversityStrategic Plan, Faculty Senate Drafting CommitteeFaculty Secretary, College of Arts and SciencesLiberal Studies Advisory CommitteeDean's Ad Hoc Chair Budget CommitteeCollege Ad Hoc Reorganization CommitteeCollege Admissions and Standards CommitteeFaculty Peer Review Committees for Social Work, Economics

• Program review committee, College of Arts and Science