Dr. Morton "Morty" Owen Schapiro, Ph.D., President Northwestern University

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Biography of Morton Schapiro from Northwestern University Website

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Morton Schapiro was named the 16th president of Northwestern University on December 16, 2008, and he began his term on September 1, 2009. He is a Professor of Economics in Northwestern's Judd A. and Marjorie Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences and also holds appointments in Northwestern's Kellogg School of Management and School of Education and Social Policy.

President Schapiro is among the nation's leading authorities on the economics of higher education, with particular expertise in the area of college financing and affordability and on trends in educational costs and student aid. He has testified before U.S. Senate and House committees on economic and educational issues and is widely quoted in the national media on those issues. In 2010, President Schapiro was elected as a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, one of the nation's oldest and most prestigious honorary societies.

President Schapiro previously was president of Williams College from 2000 to 2009. Earlier he had served as a member of the Williams College faculty from 1980 to 1991, as Professor of Economics and as Assistant Provost. In 1991 he went to the University of Southern California where he served as Chair of the Department of Economics until 1994 and then as Dean of the College of Letters, Arts and Sciences until 2000. During his last two years as Dean, he also served as the University's Vice President for Planning.

President Schapiro has written more than 100 articles and written or edited nine books, most with his longtime co-author Michael McPherson. These include: The Student Aid Game: Meeting Need and Rewarding Talent in American Higher Education (Princeton University Press 1998); Paying the Piper: Productivity, Incentives and Financing in Higher Education (also with Gordon Winston, University of Michigan Press 1993) and Keeping College Affordable: Government and Educational Opportunity (Brookings 1991), plus three recent edited volumes: The Fabulous Future?: America and the World in 2040 (with Gary Saul Morson, Northwestern University Press 2015), College Success: What It Means and How to Make It Happen (College Board 2008) and College Access: Opportunity or Privilege? (College Board 2006).

President Schapiro has received research grants and contracts from the National Science Foundation, the U.S. Department of Education, the World Bank, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the Spencer Foundation, the College Board, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development and other groups to study the economics of higher education and related topics.

He received his bachelor's degree in economics from Hofstra University and his doctorate from the University of Pennsylvania.

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Institutions Northwestern University Williams College University of Southern California Alma mater B.S., Hofstra University Ph.D., University of Pennsylvania Known for Higher education economics Morton Owen Schapiro (born July 13, 1953) is an American economist and the current president of Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois. Schapiro received a B.S. in economics from Hofstra University in 1975 and a Ph.D. in economics from the University of Pennsylvania in 1979. He joined the economics faculty at Williams College in 1980 and departed to become the chair of the economics department at the University of Southern California in 1991, rising to become the dean of the College of Letters, Arts, and Sciences in 1994, and the vice president for planning in 1998. He was appointed as the 16th president of Williams College in 2000, a post he held until becoming president of Northwestern University in 2009. Schapiro's research concerns economics in higher education, about which he has authored 100 articles, as well as five books including The Student Aid Game: Meeting Need and Rewarding Talent in American Higher Education, Paying the Piper: Productivity, Incentives and Financing in Higher Education and Keeping College Affordable: Government and Educational Opportunity. Schapiro is a trustee of the Williamstown Theatre Festival, the Sterling and Francine Clark Art Institute, the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, and Hillel International. He is also a director for Marsh & McLennan, and the College Board. Books Schapiro, Morton (1986). Filling Up America: An Economic-Demographic Model of Population Growth and Distribution in the 19th Century U.S. JAI Press. ISBN 0-89232-675-1. McPherson, Michael; Schapiro, Morton (1991). Keeping College Affordable: Government and Educational Opportunity. Brookings Institution Press. ISBN 0-8157-5641-0. McPherson, Michael; Schapiro, Morton; Winston, Gordon (1994). Paying the Piper: Productivity, Incentives, and Financing in U.S. Higher Education. University of Michigan Press. ISBN 0-472-10404-7. McPherson, Michael; Schapiro, Morton (1998). The Student Aid Game. Princeton University Press. ISBN 0-691-00536-2. McPherson, Michael; Schapiro, Morton (2006). College Access: Opportunity or Privilege?. College Board. ISBN 0-87447-774-3.

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