William F. Tate

Professor Tate holds or has held other Arts & Sciences academic and research appointments including in American Culture Studies, Center for Applied Statistics and Computation, and Urban Studies. He has served as a member of the executive committee of all three programs. His other university academic and research endeavors include serving as a participating faculty member in both the Public Health Institute (competitively selected) and Audiology and Communication Sciences program.  His additional responsibilities include serving as a faculty fellow in the office of the provost.

He serves as the director of the Center for the Study of Regional Competitiveness in Science and Technology (CSRCST). Center researchers examine the alignment of people, policy instruments, and partnerships as well as other relevant factors associated with regional scientific and technological growth and production. Funding from the National Science Foundation and other agencies has supported the center’s programmatic and research agenda.

Professor Tate has served as co-principal investigator of the National Center for Culturally Responsive Educational Systems (NCCRESt), a project funded by the U.S. Department of Education's Office of Special Education Programs. The center provides technical assistance and targets improvements in culturally responsive practices, early intervention, literacy, and positive behavioral models to support the academic achievement of students from culturally and linguistically diverse backgrounds and their peers.

Professor Tate has authored scores of scholarly journal articles, book chapters, edited volumes, monographs, and textbooks focused on (1) social determinants of science, mathematics, engineering, and technology attainment; (2) epidemiological models and geospatial applications with a focus on adolescent and child developmental outcomes; and (3) social development of youth in the context of urban communities.

 He is a past president of the American Educational Research Association (AERA). He also has served as an editor of the American Educational Research Journal (Teaching, Learning, and Human Development Section). Among his research awards and fellowships, he has been an Anna Julia Cooper Fellow at the University of Wisconsin – Madison, a Patricia Roberts Harris Fellow at the University of Maryland at College Park, and the recipient of an Early Career Award (AERA) and Outstanding Scholar Awards (SIG: Research Focus on Black Education and the University of Maryland). In 2010, he received a Presidential Citation from AERA for “his expansive vision of conceptual and methodological tools that can be recruited to address inequities in opportunities to learn.” He has completed post-doctoral training in psychiatric epidemiology in the Department of Psychiatry at the Washington University Medical School.