Norman J. Glickman

expertise: urban and regional economics, international direct investment, industrial policy, urban policy, and community development

NORMAN J. GLICKMAN is University Professor at Rutgers University, a professorship created by the University's Board of Governors. As University Professor, Dr. Glickman has the unusual freedom to teach in any school at Rutgers. He carries out research and teaching in urban and public policy and studies the work of non-profit organizations. He is also a certified mediator of public policy disputes.

In 2003, Glickman was part of a team at Rutgers that received a five-year, $10-million grant from the National Science Foundation to establish a Center for Learning and Teaching. The thrust of the CLT is "Mathematics and America's Cities" and Glickman's role is to connect math teaching in inner-city schools to institutions and families in poor neighborhoods.

During the Fall 2003, Glickman is a Visiting Professor at the University of Pennsylvania's Urban Studies Program.

Between 1989 and 2000, Professor served as Director of the Center for Urban Policy Research at Rutgers University. He was also State of New Jersey Professor of Urban Planning, a position created by the State of New Jersey's Fund for Excellence. Professor Glickman has written and edited more than 10 books and monographs and 100 articles on issues ranging from urban economic development to econometric analysis to international direct investment.

Prior to coming to Rutgers, Glickman held faculty appointments at the University of Pennsylvania (1969-1982) and the University of Texas' Lyndon Johnson School of Public Affairs, where he was the first Hogg Professor of Urban Policy (1983 to 1989). He began his career at the University of Pennsylvania, where he was founder of the Urban Studies Program. In addition, he has held teaching and research positions at institutions throughout the world, including the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (Austria), Cambridge University and University College London (United Kingdom), the Netherlands Institute for Advanced Studies, the Instituto Tecnologico y de Estudios Superiores de Monterrey (Mexico), and Tokyo and Gakushuin Universities (Japan).

Dr. Glickman's awards include the Lindback Foundation Award for Distinguished Teaching (University of Pennsylvania), the Certificate of Special Achievement (U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development), and two Fulbright-Hays Professorships. He co-authored The State of the Nation's Cities: America's Changing Urban Life, a report to HUD that was a major part of the U.S. government's submission to the United Nations "Habitat II" Conference in Istanbul in 1996. The Secretary General of Habitat presented a special Best Practices Award to Glickman and CUPR for The State of the Nation's Cities. Glickman co-authored More Than Bricks and Sticks: What is Community Development Capacity? This paper won the Fannie Mae Foundation Award for Best Paper at the 1997 meetings of the Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning.

Dr. Glickman was Principal Investigator of a four-year, $4 million indefinite quantity contract from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development; this research contract was the first of its kind ever awarded to a university. He also led a three-year evaluation of capacity building among community development corporations for the Ford Foundation and completed a multi-year evaluation of the Transitional Housing Demonstration Project in New Jersey. Glickman initiated Project Community at CUPR to provide technical assistance to community-based organizations. The New Jersey chapter of the American Planning Association and the national AICP gave Glickman and Project Community awards for a community development planning project in Newark's Central Ward in 1997. In addition, he has helped develop a set of economic forecasting models for the state of New Jersey as part of the Rutgers Economic Advisory Service (R/ECON™), to better inform businesses and governments about economic conditions and policies.

Professor Glickman has had considerable experience in strategic planning. He chaired the Rutgers-New Brunswick committee that produced a plan for the future of the campus, which formed the backbone of the University's strategic plan. Previously, he chaired a committee that carried out a strategic plan for the Lyndon Baines Johnson School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas. In 2002, he completed a plan for the future of the Interfaith Education Fund, an organization that oversees community organizing groups throughout the Southwest; this plan was done under the auspices of the Ford Foundation.

Norman Glickman has advised governments at all levels, including the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, state legislatures, and many local governments. Dr. Glickman served at HUD's Office of Policy Development and Research during the Carter Administration. He drafted legislation creating the Economic Development Commission of the City of Austin and chaired the EDC from 1985 to 1989; he served on the Austin-Travis County Commission on Joint Governance; and was on the board of "Austin Plan." In 1992, Governor Jim Florio appointed Dr. Glickman as one of the original members of the Council for Job Opportunities. He currently serves on the New Jersey Council of Policy Advisors, to which he was appointed by the majority and minority leadership of both houses of the State Legislature. He has provided advice to several foundations, including the Ford, John C. and Catherine D. MacArthur, and John Heinz Foundations. Norman Glickman has also advised community organizations: he is currently on the Board of Trustees of the New Community Corporation of Newark and has worked with the Industrial Areas Foundation network for more than a decade. He is also a member of the Board of Directors of radio station WBGO, a National Public Radio affiliate in Newark, which features jazz programming. Glickman was a member of the Policy Council of the Association of Public Policy and Management and has served on the Board of the Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning between 1997 and 2000. He previously was both Vice President and Counselor of the Regional Science Association.

Dr. Glickman co-authored The New Competitors: How Foreign Investors Are Changing the U.S. Economy that chronicled the growing role of foreign investment in the United States. Business Week magazine named The New Competitors as one of the "Top Ten Business Books of the Year." The book was translated into Japanese, Spanish, and Mandarin. His book The Growth and Management of the Japanese Urban System was published in 1979 and his Econometric Analysis of Regional Systems: Explorations in Model Building and Policy Analysis (also translated into Russian) appeared in 1977. Both books have been recently re-released. He has also edited The Urban Impacts of Federal Policies (1980), Modeling the Multiregion Economic System (1980), and Transition to the 21st Century: Prospects and Policies for Economic and Urban-Regional Transformation (1983), and several special issues of professional journals.