During my 42 years as a college teacher, the last 34 on the faculty at Drexel University (1967-2003):

• 1) In 2010 I was awarded the first College of Arts and Sciences Faculty Lifetime Achievement Award: “In recognition of his seminal contributions to the disciplines of futurism and sociology, and for his leadership in the humanities at Drexel University.”
• 2) I completed 34 books (authored, edited, and co-edited) along with over 160 articles –a book count that may be the highest to date of any social scientist in the Drexel’s history; I have more books in preparation.
• 3) I introduced four interdisciplinary, edgy, and policy-oriented courses at Drexel – Futuristics, Race and Ethnic Relations, Social Change and Social Planning, and Social Implications of 20^th century Technology.
• 4) I was the first academic to teach Futuristics in the Delaware Valley, and also on Drexel’s Internet System. Only Yale University and George Washington University on the East Coast had a comparable course.
• 5) I was given a Drexel Lindbock Award for Outstanding Teaching, and a similar award from the Drexel Inter-fraternity Association.
• 6) I was elected to the Drexel Faculty Senate for 36 of my 37 years, and I chose to spend the majority of those years heading the Student Life Committee.
• 7) I was one of three faculty members who helped to develop the Drexel Judaic Studies Program, and I have served ever since on its Advisory Board.
• 8) I was instrumental in the development of the Drexel Honors Program and served on its Advisory Board for several years.
• 9) In a Drexel Honors Course I helped make a 5’ tall model of a Powelton Row House converted into a stellar “Green” residence for Drexel students. The model was invited into the Philadelphia Garden Show and also displayed throughout the Bicentennial Year at the Franklin Institute where about 500,000 visitors saw it.
• 10) I served as an informal policy advisor to Drexel Presidents William Gaither and also Rick Breslin. I especially appreciated insightful comments on my blue-collar books from President William Haggerty. I served as a University liaison to FEMA at the request of President Haggerty.
• 11) I was part of a very small group of Drexel faculty that encouraged Asbury Minister Bob Edgar to run as a liberal democrat for Congress from the 7^th Congressional District, which had not elected a Democrat since 1858. He served with distinction from 1975 to 1982, and now heads Common Cause.
• 12) I funded a Sociology Student Achievement Award for a graduating Drexel senior, and I also funded an Annual Drexel Hillel Lectureship in the honor of my parents.
• 13) I taught early morning “Sunrise Semester” sociology courses for several years in the 1980s for the local affiliate of CBS-TV.
• 14) I pioneered sociology research into abortion and men, blue collar stress, covert care shared by Jewish prisoners in concentration camps, CyberUnionism, Educational Futuristics, Educational Parks, the 1981 PATCO strike of air traffic controllers, the private lives of contemporary sociologists, and viable utopian ideas – among many other under-researched topics.
• 15) I served as the first Faulty Adviser to a new Drexel gay and lesbian student organization – and thereby enabled the group to get official recognition on campus.
• 16) I regularly gave referred papers and/or served as an invited discussant at the annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association, the Society for the Study of Social Problems, the Eastern Sociological Society, and the Pennsylvania Sociological Society.
• 17) I served as President of the Pennsylvania Sociological Society, the first and only Drexel faculty to date to hold that post.
• 18) I served as Chair of the Sociological Practice Section of the American Sociological Association, the first and only Drexel faculty member to date to hold that post.
• 19) In 2002 I received that year’s only Lifetime Achievement Award in Sociological Practice from the American Sociological Association, the first and only Drexel faculty member to date to have gotten that honor.
• 20) I sought and received Research Grants from the Ford Foundation and also from the National Science Foundation. I was the only Social Scientist to participate in Drexel’s first major effort to secure a large Nanotechnology Research Grant.
• 21) I served as a Consultant to the New Communities Section of the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, the U.S. Department of Energy, the Philadelphia Anti-Poverty Program, and school systems across the country.
• 22) I regularly delivered as many as 20 off-campus invited talks a year somewhere in the USA or overseas; e.g., Brazil, Britain, Canada, China, Denmark, Holland, Japan, Israel, South Korea, Taiwan, etc. I particularly liked explaining ideas about the future to corporate, education, government, and labor union leaders.
• 23) I served as a Guest Professor in 2004 for the Graduate Futures Program of a leading University in Taiwan, and I helped assess and advise the Program.
• 24) I served for many years in the 1970s as the keynote speaker for the annual Danforth Foundation Conference on Improving Teaching in Higher Education.
• 25) I served for 25 years (1975-2000) as an Adjunct Sociologist for the AFL-CIO George Meany Center for Labor Studies, Silver Spring, Maryland, the first academic to hold that post.
• 26) In the way of meeting my civic responsibilities, I served on the Board of the Miquon School, and also of the West Philadelphia Arts League. I chaired the Philadelphia Committee on Civic Policy, the first Drexel faculty to hold that post.
• 27) I founded and led the Philadelphia Chapter of the World Future Society for over 20 years, the oldest such chapter in the organization.
• 28) I was profiled in the Sunday Philadelphia Inquirer Magazine, and FAST Magazine. Ideas of mine were cited in the New York Times, the Philadelphia Inquirer, and other such papers coast to coast. I was a guest on Marty Moss-Koan’s WHYY radio interview show, and appeared on “Oprah” [when the show was still in Chicago], “Phil Donohue”, and other such TV shows. My retirement party at Drexel University on November 23, 2003, earned attention in a fine story in the Philadelphia Inquirer.
• 29) I was asked in 2011 by Drexel’s President to help develop the first Advisory Council of Emeritus Faculty.