Gordon A. Welty, PhD
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Gordon Welty is Associate Professor of Sociology at Mercy College, and Professor Emeritus at Wright State University.  He received his BA in Economics from the University of Akron in 1965, and his Ph.D. in Sociology, with a focus on Organizational Development, from the University of Pittsburgh in 1974.  He has held positions at Adelphi University, American University, Indiana University, University of Toronto, and Wright State University, among others.  He held Quality Assurance positions at Eli Lilly and Schering Plough (now Merck).  Dr. Welty has been a research consultant at the Atlanta University, the Bureau of Social Science Research, Gallup International, and the Kettering Foundation, as well as a number of corporations in the life science industry.  He has testified as an expert witness before the Committee on Foreign Relations of the U.S. Senate and other legislative bodies.  He has published over 40 articles in peer reviewed journals including Academy of Management Journal, European Journal of Semiotic Studies, Journal of GXP Compliance, Metroeconomica, The Monist, Mundo Siglo XXI, Social Justice Review, Social Science Quarterly, and Weltwirtschaftliches Archiv.   He has also contributed chapters to a number of anthologies.  He published Quality Assurance (Woodhead/ Elsevier) in 2013.  He received the Institute of Validation Technology�s �Author of the Year� Award during Validation Week in Philadelphia in 2008, in 2009, and in 2010.  Dr. Welty has been working in the area of evaluative research since the late 1960�s.  He has evaluated public school programs (ESEA Title I, ESEA Title III), higher education programs (Upward Bound, New Careers), poverty programs, and community policing programs among others.  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.