James L. Morrison, Ph.D., is professor emeritus of educational leadership at The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. He founded and served as first president, the American Educational Research Association Special Interest Group (SIG) on Postsecondary Education, and later, when the SIG became Division J, served as vice president and member of the AERA Council. He also served as convener of the Forum on Environmental Scanning, The American Association for Higher Education; served two terms as a member of the Board of Directors, Association for the Study of Higher Education; chaired AERA's SIG on Futures Research; chaired the editorial board, The Review of Higher Education; and served as consulting editor of The Review of Educational Research, The American Educational Research Journal, and the ASHE-ERIC Research Report Series. He served as founding editor of three journals: On the Horizon, The Technology Source, and Innovate, the Journal of Online Education. He received the Distinguished Scholar Award from the American Educational Research Association's Special Interest Group on Strategic Change at the 1999 annual

Publications 
He is author and co-author of over 200 publications focusing on strategic foresight/planning/transformation and on using information technology tools in educational organizations, including Moblizing for Transformation: How Campuses Are Preparing for the Knowledge Age, Anticipatory Management, and Futures Research and the Strategic Planning Process. See his curriculum vita for a complete list of publications (many of which are now available on the Web)..

Seminar/Workshop Experience
He has made over 250 presentations on strategic management/foresight/planning, issues management, institutional vulnerability audits, environmental scanning, and using technology in educational organizations for institutions and organizations in North America, Europe Asia, and the Middle East. See his curriculum vita for a complete list of presentations and workshops.

Consulting Experience
Morrison has served as a planning consultant to colleges and universities, military organizations, and corporations around the world. His consulting activities focus on assisting organizations in developing environmental scanning/forecasting systems to augment their strategic long-range planning processes and on integrating information technology tools in teaching and in management.

Military Experience
He retired from the U.S. Army Reserve (Colonel, USAR, Civil Affairs) in April 1992. From 1986-91 he served as Deputy Commander, Individual Mobilization Augmentee, U.S. Army Research Institute for the Social and Behavioral Sciences. In July 1990, the Secretary of the Army awarded him the Meritorious Service Medal for training Army long-range planners in the alternative futures approach to planning model and for assisting the Chief, Army Reserve in using this model to develop the 1990-2020 Army Reserve long-range plan. In April 1991, the Secretary of the Army awarded him the second highest award authorized for peacetime, the Legion of Merit Medal, for his career contributions to planning for the Total Army.