Gordon A. Welty, PhD

11602 Eden Glen Dr.

Carmel, IN 46033

gwelty@wright.edu

 

Gordon Welty, currently Vice Chancellor for Information Technologies at Indiana University Kokomo, has over twenty-five years professional experience in information technology and the management of organizational change.  For a summary of his accomplishments in the Indiana University system, see Foundations for Innovation ed. Jan Holloway (2000).

 

Dr. Welty was recruited to IUK from Wright State University in Dayton, Ohio, where he was Assistant Dean for Computer Services.  His major accomplishments while in that earlier position included: developing a scalable and replicable system of electronic forms for College of Liberal Arts business process; planning and deploying a system of distributed support for IT across campus; computerization and networking of all desktops for the College; installation and maintenance of dedicated and general purpose Novell computer labs throughout the College; installation and maintenance of Compaq Proliant, IBM PC-Server, and DEC Alpha server farm; and rollout of Windows 95 to all desktops.

 

Welty’s doctorate is from the University of Pittsburgh.  He has taught at universities at home and abroad, including American University, Temple University, and the universities of Akron, Pittsburgh and Toronto.  Dr. Welty has received numerous academic awards, including a Woodrow Wilson Fellowship in Economics and several post doctoral grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities.  He has been a staff associate with the Brookings Institution and senior scientist with the National Institute for Advanced Studies.

 

Welty has been a research consultant of the Atlanta University, the Bureau of Social Science Research, Gallup International, and the Kettering Foundation, among other institutions.  He has testified as an expert witness before the Committee on Foreign Relations of the U.S. Senate and other public bodies.  His writings have appeared in such scholarly publications as Academy of Management Journal, International Sociological Review, Journal of Value Inquiry,  Metroeconomica, and The Monist, as well as a number of anthologies.  He was guest editor of  the  Summer 1992 issue of the University of Dayton Review.  

 

Welty received his certificate in journalism from the International Journalism Institute in Budapest in 1989.  His op-eds and journalism have been published in the popular press at home and abroad.