Frank Morris retired from the University of Texas at Dallas as a visiting professor in the School of Social Sciences. In 1995 Dr. Morris retired as the Dean of Graduate Studies and Research  at Morgan State University in Baltimore Md.  Through Congressional testimony he helped Morgan and eight other Historically Black graduate schools gain access to graduate support from title three of the federal Higher Education Act.  He also helped Morgan to have been selected as a national transportation center which was a five million dollar federal grant over five years. He supervised the transportation center at Morgan in his research responsibilities. He also assisted in the completion of more than 30 doctorates in educational administration at Morgan. His previous academic positions were as  the Associate Dean  of the Graduate School of Public Affairs at the University of Maryland at College Park; a visiting professor in the O’Connor Chair at  his alma mater Colgate University; as an Associate Professor of  Political Science and Urban Affairs at Northwestern University; and as a MIT teaching and research assistant.
 
His non academic management experiences include….Executive Director of the Congressional Black Caucus Foundation);  Senior  Foreign Service Officer for the Agency for International Development in the US State Department;  Chief of Planning and Policy Analysis for the federal war on poverty agency; Special Assistant to the Director of the National Institute for Education while serving as a national Educational Policy Fellow; as a federal management intern and  multiply  promoted manager in urban renewal for the federal department of Housing and Urban Affairs while stationed in the Pacific Northwest;  and as a researcher at Syracuse for the NY state Mental Health Research Unit.
 
He received his A.B.  with high honors from Colgate; a masters in Public Administration (MPA) from the Maxwell School of Syracuse University (currently rated as the top university program); he completed all requirements for the Masters in International Affairs from Georgetown University before transferring to complete his doctorate in Political Science from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).  His areas of expertise include international management and development policy analysis with specialization in immigration, poverty, environmental and educational policies which have differential impact upon African Americans and other low income Americans. He has testified many times before the US Congress.  His honors and awards include (but are not limited to) 3 awards from different NAACP local chapters throughout the US; the Superior Honor Award from the US Department of State (at the time it was the second highest Departmental award);  a selection in 1975 as a father of the year by the Chicago Defender newspaper.  He is listed as a history maker at  www.thehistorymakers.com under educators.
 
He is a trustee of Huston Tillotson University; is Chairman of the Board of DASA (the Diversity Alliance for a Sustainable America); serves on the Board of Directors for  the Center for Immigration Studies and the 911 Families for a Secure America.  He was President of the Council of Historically Black Graduate Schools; served on the NAACP National Educational Advisory Board; and the Education Testing Service GRE Advisory Committee. He serves on the AARP National Policy Council.
 
He continues to serve his local  church as a deacon or trustee.  He was chairman of the Domestic Mission Board of the United Church of Christ (UCC) and served UCC Local Church National Ministries. He personally uncovered the national church misallocation of millions of dollars of a Daniel Hand Trust fund for the education of southern blacks and forced more than 5 million dollars to be restored.  He has been married to Winston Baker for more than 49 years. They have 4 children, and seven wonderful grandchildren.  They live in DeSoto Texas.