Background
McGILL, William James. PH D. was born on February 27, 1922 in New York, United States. Son of William E. and Edna (nee Rankin) McGill.
McGILL, William James. PH D. was born on February 27, 1922 in New York, United States. Son of William E. and Edna (nee Rankin) McGill.
Fordham College, and Fordham and Harvard Universities.
Instructor, Fordham University and Boston College, then Teaching Fellow at Harvard University. At Lincoln Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology 1951, Assistant Professor 1954. Assistant Professor, of Psychology, Columbia University, New York 1956-1958, Association Professor 1958-1960, Professor 1960-1965, President 1970-1980, President Emeritus since 1980.
Professor, of Psychology, University of Calif, at San Diego, at same time serving as.
Chairman Carnegie Commission, on Future of Public Broadcasting 1977-1979. Director American Telephone and Telegraph Company 1972-1980, American Council on Education 1972-1978, McGraw Hill Company since 1973, Texaco Incorporated.
1973-1980, Lounsbery Foundation since 1980, Occidental Petroleum Company since 1981, Weingart Foundation. Trustee Trinity School 1972-1980, United World College, of the American West since 1982.
Association; Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science 1963, American Psychological Association 1967.
And Chair, of Committee on Education Policy and as member of Academic Council of Academic Senate and of Chancellor’s Senate Council 1965-1968, Chair, of state-wide Academic Senate and Chancellor of University of Calif, at San Diego 1968-1970. Society of Experimental Psychologists, Governor Board Psychonomic Society 1965-1971, American Statistical Association, Psychometric Society (also on Board of Trustees since 1967), Biometric Society.
Married Ann Rowe in 1948.