Morton O. Schapiro Biography, Age, Height, Wife, Net Worth, Family

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Morton O. Schapiro is an American economist and academic administrator who currently serves as the president of Northwestern University. He was born on July 13, 1953 in Newark, New Jersey. He earned a bachelor's degree in economics from Rutgers University in 1975 and a Ph.D. in economics from the University of Pennsylvania in 1979. Schapiro has held a number of academic positions, including professor of economics at Williams College, professor of economics and finance at the University of Southern California, and professor of economics and finance at the University of Pennsylvania. He was also the president of Tufts University from 2001 to 2011. Schapiro is the author of several books, including The Economics of Higher Education, The Student Aid Game, and The Student Loan Mess. He has also written numerous articles for academic journals and magazines. As of 2021, Morton O. Schapiro's net worth is estimated to be roughly $2 million.

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Schapiro has authored more than 100 articles, and written or edited nine books including Cents and Sensibility: What Economics Can Learn from the Humanities" (with Gary Saul Morson, Princeton University Press 2017); The Student Aid Game: Meeting Need and Rewarding Talent in American Higher Education (with Michael McPherson, Princeton University Press 1998); Paying the Piper: Productivity, Incentives and Financing in Higher Education (with Michael McPherson and Gordon Winston, University of Michigan Press 1993); Keeping College Affordable: Government and Educational Opportunity (with Michael McPherson, The Brookings Institution 1991); and an edited volume, "The Fabulous Future? American and the World in 2040" (with Gary Saul Morson, Northwestern University Press 2015).

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. In 2010 he was elected a fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, and in 2017 he was elected to the National Academy of Education.

He began his term as the 16th president of Northwestern on September 1, 2009. He is also a professor of economics in Northwestern's Judd A. and Marjorie Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences and holds appointments in the J.L. Kellogg School of Management and the School of Education and Social Policy.

A fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Schapiro has received honorary degrees from Amherst College (2001, where he delivered the Class Day address), Hofstra (2006), Wesleyan University (LLD, 2008), University of Notre Dame (2013), and Garrett–Evangelical Theological Seminary (2013, where he delivered the commencement oration). He is additionally an honorary fellow of Exeter College, Oxford.

After teaching at Penn for a year, where he received a Distinguished Teaching Award in 1978, Schapiro joined the economics faculty at Williams College in 1980, where he additionally served as assistant provost from 1986 to 1989. He left Williams 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. During Schapiro's tenure as Williams president, the college eliminated student loans in favor of grants for low-income students, tripled its number of tutorial courses offered, and increased diversity, with numbers of students of color rising by about eight percentage points, from about 25 to 33 percent of the total student body.

After a childhood spent in New Jersey, Schapiro received a B.S. magna cum laude in economics from Hofstra University, where he studied with Herman A. Berliner, in 1975 and a Ph.D. in economics from the University of Pennsylvania in 1979. At Penn, he was research assistant to Richard Easterlin.

Morton Owen Schapiro (born July 13, 1953) is an American economist and the current president of Northwestern University in Evanston, Illinois. Before assuming the Northwestern presidency in 2009, he served as president of Williams College for nine years. Earlier, Schapiro was Dean of the College of Arts and Letters at the University of Southern California.