Current Position: Director of the McLean Institute for Community Development and Professor of Sociology at The University of Mississippi where he has taught for more than forty years.
B. A. and M. A. Mississippi State University
Ph. D: The University of North Carolina
Author of four books including a book on leadership development, LINK 2000, two books on community development, TUPELO; THE EVOLUTION OF A COMMUNITY, and HAND IN HAND: COMMUNITY AND ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT, and a book on a model school in an economically depressed area of Dallas, Texas.
Currently researching and writing a book or Extraordinary Communities throughout the United States.
Author of more than one hundred papers and articles.
Produced and directed two films.
Helped to establish leadership development programs in more than three hundred counties in more than twenty states.
Has worked in leadership and community/ economic development in more than thirt-three states and two Canadian provinces.
Resource consultant on two occasions for Russian communities.
Selected as the Outstanding Teacher at The University of Mississippi.
Selected for Who’s Who Among America’s Teachers
Selected as a member of the Teaching Resource Group by the American Sociological Association.
Two time president of the Alabama-Mississippi Sociological Society
Received the Lifetime Achievement Award by the Alabama-Mississippi Sociological Society 2006
Awarded The Thomas S. Frist Award for Outstanding Service to the University of Mississippi and the State.
Senior Fellow with the Southern Growth Policies Board, a think tank agency that advises southern governors in economic matters.
An Associate with the Kettering Foundation
Worked in association with Annie E. Casey Foundation on extraordinary communities
Former president of the University of Mississippi Faculty Senate twice, and the Faculty Senate Association of Mississippi, twice.
Selected as Citizen of the Year for Lafayette County (my home county)
Numerous awards by agencies and counties for contributions in community and economic development.
Selected as a Paul Harris Fellow
Posted by William Miller on July 12, 2007 09:26 PM
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