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Biography
Morton W. Weir is a psychologist and academic. He most recently served as an acting president of Knox College. Before, he was the 5th chancellor at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and an acting chancellor. At the time he served as interim president of Knox College he was a Senior Foundation Representative for the U of I Foundation, from which he retired in 2000.
Education
Weir graduated cum laude from Knox College in 1955 as a pre-medicine major. In 1958, he then received an M.A. in experimental psychology from University of Texas at Austin and received his Ph.D. a year later.
Career
Weir was a professor of psychology at the University of Illinois for 33 years. In addition, he served as the head of the psychology department and the vice chancellor for academic affairs.
After Jack Peltason's resignation as chancellor, Weir served as the university's first acting Chancellor. He would then go on to serve as the university's fifth chancellor a decade later.
Weir then returned to his alma mater to serve as acting president.