Professional Achievements and Awards

1901-1939 Achievements at Northwestern University

• 1901 - Assisant Professor and Director of the Psychology Laboratory
• 1905 - Promoted to Associate Professor of Psychology
• 1908 - Promoted to Professor of Psychology
• 1909 - Joint Appointment with Psychology- Professor of Advertising in Northwestern's School of Commerce
• 1920 - President of Northwestern University

Other Major Achievements

• 1916-17 - Director of Bureau of Salesmanship Research, Carnegie Institute of Technology
• 1917-18 - Director of the Committee on Classification of Personnel in the U.S. Army
• 1918-19 - Commissioned as Colonel, U.S. Army
• 1919 - President of the American Psychological Association
• 1919-20 - President of the Scott Co., a personal consulting firm
• 1927 - Chairman, American Council on Education

Awards

• Distinquished Service Medal, after World War I was over
• 1921 - Cornell College, honorary degree
• 1932 - University of Southern California, honorary degree
• 1933 - Cross Legion of Honor (France)
• 1938 - Chevalier of the French Legion of Honor