Summary: | Psychologist and professor Jerome Taylor was born on January 26, 1940 in Waukegan, Illinois. He earned his B.A. degree from the University of Denver in 1961, and his Ph.D. degree from Indiana University Bloomington in 1965. In 1968, Taylor was named director of the Mental Health Unit at the Menninger Clinic of Topeka, Kansas. He then moved to the University of Pittsburgh in 1969, where he was appointed director of the Clinical Psychology Center. Taylor went on to serve as chair of the Graduate Program in Social Psychology, and as associate professor and chair of the Department of Africana Studies. In psychology, he chaired more than twenty-five dissertation committees of African American students, a record number at the University of Pittsburgh. Taylor also founded the Institute for the Black Family at the University of Pittsburgh and the Center for Family Excellence, Inc., in 1988, which served Allegheny County.
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