Roger Kenton Williams
Born: 1914 in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania
Died: 1989
Education
- B.A. degree, magna cum laude, in Sociology from Claflin College in South Carolina
- 1946 Ph.D. in Psychology from Pennsylvania State University in College Park
Landmarks
- 1941 Accepted an appointment as associate professor of education and psychology at North Carolina Agricultural and Technical College.
- Called into the U.S. Coast Guard as a Chief Yeoman in Recruitment and Morale during World War II.
- 1946-1948 Became a professor of psychology and Director of the Veterans Administration Guidance Center.
- Professor of education and Director of Student Personnel at Morgan State College.
- 1949-1972 Professor of psychology and chairman of the psychology department at Morgan State.
- 1958-1968 Director of Morgan’s Independent Study Project and was a consultant for the Ford Foundation.
- 1968-1969 Acting dean of the graduate school at Morgan State.
- 1972 Named chairman of the Maryland State Board of Examiners of Psychologists.
- 1972-1973 Vice President for Academic Affairs and was later named Vice President for Planning and Operations Analysis at Morgan State University.
Contributions
- He researched “Creating Institutional Opportunities for Producing More Black Ph.D’s in Psychology”, “Appearance, Features and the Concept of Black Militancy”, and a number of academic placement tests. He also had research interests in student research supervision, independent study design, and statistical application of qualitative data.
Keywords
- Statistical application of qualitative data
Selected Works and Publications
- “Creating Institutional Opportunities for Producing More Black Ph.D’s in Psychology” with Bayton and Roberts.
- “Appearance, Features and the Concept of Black Militancy” with Gregory Shannon.
- “A Comparison of College Students Classified by Psychological Clinic as Personality Maladjustment Cases and as Vocational Guidance Cases”