Philip S. Morse has had more
than thirty years of secondary school and college experience as
a teacher, author, consultant, and mediator. As a professor at
the State University of New York at Fredonia from 1972 to 2002,
Dr. Morse taught language arts, creative arts, teaching of
thinking, social and emotional learning, conflict resolution,
educational foundations, and informal logic. In addition to
teaching writing skills in the English and Education
departments, he also taught high school English from 1967-1970.
Dr. Morse has been a visiting scholar at the Graduate School of
Education at Harvard University and the University of California
at Berkeley. He was also an adjunct professor in the School of
Industrial and Labor Relations at Cornell University where he
taught mediation.
Conducting more than one hundred presentations to international
groups, national and state conferences, and local organizations
and schools, Dr. Morse is the author of numerous scholarly
articles, has consulted widely, and has been the recipient of
fourteen grants. He has been listed in Who's Who in American
Education, Men of Achievement, and Outstanding Americans.
Dr. Morse is the author of five books, including Does a
Pigeon Bark?: 212 Fun, Educational Activities for Young
Children (Anteater Books, 2008), Gloria Mae, the Heroine
of Dunkirk Harbor (Anteater Books, 2008), Face to Face:
Communication and Conflict Resolution in the Schools
(Sage/Corwin Press, 1996), Young Children at Home and in
School (Allyn and Bacon, 1995), and Home-Style Learning:
Activities for Young Children and their Parents
(Prentice-Hall, 1981),
An award-winning poet, Dr. Morse has published in The Poets’
Corner, Selected Poems (Intercare 21st Publishing, 2006),
The Journey (The Links, National Resource Center, Spring,
2006). Sand, Sea, & Sail and Night Whispers (Old Mountain
Press, 2007), and Bay Leaves (North Carolina Poetry
Council, 2007). In 2007, he received an honorable mention in the
North Carolina Poetry Council Contest for his poem “My Son
Wishing Me Goodbye.”
An article entitled “Non-local Consciousness: What Is It and How
Does It Relate to Psychic Phenomena?” was published in
Innerchange magazine in the Fall of 2006. The December,
2006 edition of The North Carolina Journal for Women
carried an article entitled “Grief and Beyond---Some Facts about
Suicide, Survivor Issues, Ways to Prevent Suicide, and National,
State, and Local Resources.”
In 2009 and 2010 Dr. Morse taught a course exploring
non-local consciousness, the paranormal, and quantum reality at
Duke University, the Rhine Research Center, and at UNC at Chapel
Hill. Starting in the Fall of 2011, he will be teaching it as a
non-credit, short course on-line through the Lifelong Learning
Program and Continuing Professional Education departments within
the Office of Continuing Education at East Carolina University.
The course can be accessed on the following website:
http://www.ecu.edu/cs-acad/llp/paranormal.cfm.
Dr. Morse lives in Fearrington Village, North Carolina with his
wife Judith. He is the founder of the
Triangle Consortium for Suicide Prevention,
co-founder of the Triangle Annual American Foundation for
Suicide Prevention Survivors of Suicide Conference, and is the
United Nations Association co-founder for
international medical supplies distribution with Med World at
the University of North Carolina hospitals. He is an amateur
pianist who enjoys Bach, Beethoven, and the blues.
