Morton O. Schapiro

After a childhood spent in New Jersey,[5] 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.[6][7]

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.[8] 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.[1] He was appointed as the 16th president of Williams College in 2000, a post he held until becoming president of Northwestern University in 2009.[9] 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.[10][11]

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.[12]

Schapiro is a trustee of Hillel International.[13] He is also a director of Marsh & McLennan.[13][14]

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),[16][17] Hofstra (2006),[18] Wesleyan University (LLD, 2008),[19][20] University of Notre Dame (2013),[21] and Garrett–Evangelical Theological Seminary (2013, where he delivered the commencement oration).[22] He is additionally an honorary fellow of Exeter College, Oxford.[23]

• 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 (1990). Selective Admission and the Public Interest. College Board. ISBN 0-87447-399-3.
• 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.
• McPherson, Michael; Schapiro, Morton (2008). College Success: What It Means and How to Make It Happen. College Board. ISBN 978-0-87447-830-3.
• Morson, Gary Saul; Schapiro, Morton (2015). The Fabulous Future? America and the World in 2040, Editors. Northwestern University Press. ISBN 978-0-81013-198-9.
• Morson, Gary Saul; Schapiro, Morton (2017). Cents and Sensibility: What Economics Can Learn from the Humanities. Princeton University Press. ISBN 9780691176680.