Curriculum Vitae
ALBERT J. SCHORSCH, III, PhD,
AICP, CRA
Associate Dean
UIC College of Urban Planning and Public Affairs
412 S. Peoria, Rm. 115, M/C 350
Chicago, IL 60607-7064
(312)-996-2177, Fax (312) 413-8095
schorsch@uic.edu,
http://www.uic.edu/cuppa
Albert Schorsch, III, a UIC city planner, uses his expertise in administration, development, telecommunications, computing, communications, visualization, and human organization to help "make things happen" in business, education, and community economic development. Experienced in project management, problem-solving, and evaluation, Schorsch specializes in drawing together diverse teams of participants to work on both short and long-term implementation projects in the public interest. Photo.
Recent essays--
Building knowledge infrastructure at the engaged urban research university
Systems implications for the university as an agent and an environment of transformation
How to Avoid a Retreat from Quality
Commonsense
Principles of Bureaucratic Organization
Employment:
Acting Dean, 1999-2000. Associate Dean, 1999-. Assistant Dean, UIC College of Urban Planning and Public Affairs (CUPPA), 1996-1999. Research Assistant Professor, Survey Research Laboratory, 2009-. Economic Development Planner (Senior) 1994-, and Research Assistant Professor, 1994-2008, Center for Urban Economic Development (UICUED), University of Illinois at Chicago. Acting Director, 2004-7, Acting director and initiating investigator, 1998-2001, Great Cities Urban Data Visualization Lab, funded as a recurring campus lab, 1998. Co-edited with Prof. Ugo Buy, NSF workshop supplemental report on "Foundations of Electronic Government in America's Cities, an Interdisciplinary Workshop," March 8-9, 2001. Learning Illinois Project, 1996-7, coordinator. Acting Principal Investigator, the UIC Neighborhoods and NonProfits Network, a $452,000 Dept. of Commerce NTIA-TIIAP project to connect organizations to the Internet through the resources of UIC, 1994-96: UIC-NNNet Lessons Learned.
Director (founding), Reynold Hillenbrand
Institute; Asst. Professor of Philosophy, Social Science, Regional Planning,
Policy, and Management; Niles College Seminary (now St. Joseph College Seminary) of Loyola
University, Chicago, 1992-4. Founder of the Gang Ministry
Research Project, a national effort, in cooperation with Rev. Greg
Boyle, SJ, of
Quality Manager, LithoTech, Inc., Oak Park, IL, 1991-2. Six month contract for start-up management of total quality program, involving change agency, staff training, operations management, develop custom software, Deming methods.
Vice President, Albert J. Schorsch Jr. Realty, Inc.,
1984-1989, 1991. Managed financial, personnel, and
information operations for over $8 million in single family residential
construction in
University of Illinois, Chicago, School of Urban Planning and Policy, research and
teaching, 1983-86,88-90. Duties: Taught Microcomputer classes for five
quarters, also evaluation of student case studies in doctoral level Advanced
Methods of Policy Analysis. Wrote microcomputer curriculum,
Consultations. For firm Community Development
Strategies, (a) program evaluation for Neighborhoods
Inc. of Battle Creek, MI, recipient of $25 million Kellogg Foundation grant for five-year
neighborhood housing effort; (b) report to John
D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation on Davis-Bacon Act, Putting
Public Housing Residents to Work Fixing Public Housing: The Prevailing Need
Meets the Prevailing Wage, 1993, (c) Worker-based Community Rebuilding
Strategies: Linking Rides to Jobs to Housing in Chicago's North Lawndale (also
for MacArthur), 1992. Invited as "Urban Poverty Fellow" to the University of
Chicago Harris School of Public Policy Studies and the Center for
the Study of Urban Inequality forums on housing policy, 1993. Wrote scheduling program for printing firm LithoTech,
Inc., 1990. Affirmative marketing strategy,
St. Ignatius College Prep, faculty, religious studies, 1980- 1982. Named "Educator of the Year" at St. Ignatius, 1982. (1076 W. Roosevelt Rd., Chicago, IL 60608).
Friendship House,
Catholic Interracial Apostolate, editor of publications and staff coordinator,
1976- 1980. Editor, Community Magazine, 1976-78, and Friendship
House Notes, 1979 (700 S. Morgan, %
Education:
University of Illinois at Chicago (May,1992) Ph.D. in Public Policy Analysis, Urban Planning and Policy. Specialization in housing policy and real estate finance, program evaluation, microcomputer applications, and theories of social choice. Dissertation: Housing Policy and Common Sense: An Inquiry and a Method.
Northwestern University, Kellogg School of Management, Kellogg Management Institute, September 2006-May 2007.
Harvard University, Graduate School of Education, Harvard Institutes for Higher Education, Institute for Management and Leadership in Education, MLE, June 8 - 20, 2003.
Massachusetts Institute
of Technology Center for Real Estate Development,
Realtors Land Institute training in Subdivision
Development,
Loyola University, Chicago, Feb. 1973-May 1974, M.A., Counseling Psychology, concentration on
communication skills, human relations, and organization development. Led
communications skills class groups, mental health internship.
Quigley North (now Archbishop Quigley Seminary ),
Planning and Policy
Publications:
Principal author of the public document, prepared in cooperation with the Urban Land Institute, Lambda Alpha Land Economics Society, and the American Institute of Architects: The Future of the Maxwell St. Market, report of the Chicago Department of Planning, 1989.
"Demolition as a housing strategy," Chicago Tribune, 2/12/91
"Don't gamble with future of Chicago," Chicago Sun-Times, 4/18/92.
Review of book, Sharing Geographic Information by Harlan J. Onsrud and Gerard Rushton, in Journal of Planning Education and Research, 15(3):246-247, Spring, 1996.
"A cycle of ball court problems," Chicago Tribune, 7/15/00.
"Preserve bungalows--but don't go too far," Chicago Sun-Times, 10/9/00.
Planning and Policy Conference Papers:
"Formalizing Common Sense in Policy Analysis, Management, and Planning: a Method for the Public Problem-Solving Arts," a paper given at the 13th Research Conference, Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management, Bethesda, October 25, 1991.
"Toward Unity in Public Economics: a Theoretical Framework for Reconciling the Public Choice and Chicago Political Economy Schools," a paper given to the 1992 Meeting of the Public Choice Society, New Orleans, March, 1992.
"Managing
Public-Private Compromise: The Case of HUD's Step-Up Program, a Davis-Bacon
Understanding Among Organized Labor, Local Housing, and Federal Agencies,"
a paper given at the 16th Research Conference,
Association for Public Policy Analysis and Management, Chicago, Illinois,
October, 1994.
Other Publications:
The living
Dayspring: letters for friends on Christian practice, three untitled essays in three circular letters, 1975-1976.
Community Magazine, feature articles, editorials, and reviews, 1976-1980.
World citizen, Garry Davis: an interview, Community, 36(2), Winter, 1976.
Some TV shows we’d like to see, Community, 36(3):26, Spring, 1977..
Review of The Gospel of Peace and Justice, Joseph Gremillion (ed.), Community, 36(4), Summer, 1977.
Fall TV preview, The Other Side: A Magazine of Christian Discipleship, 13(2):32, 1977.
Review of The Dispossessed, by Ursula K. Le Guin, Community, 37(2):34, Winter, 1977.
A visit to Madonna House and to Catherine de Hueck Doherty, Community, 37(3):56, 1978.
Friendship House today: reflections, Community, 37(3):57-61, 1978.
Review of Strannik, by Catherine de Hueck Doherty, Community, 37(3):66, 1978.
A proposal: urban language learning in Chicago Catholic high schools, outline and defense of a workable plan for bilingual workshops, Community, 40:4-5,8, 1983.
The challenge of prayer, Haversack: a Franciscan Review, 7(2):6-7, December, 1983.
"Uncommon Women and Others": memoirs and lessons from radical Catholics at Friendship House. U.S. Catholic Historian, 9(4):371-386, Fall, 1990.
Fr. Furfey, The Catholic Worker, LIX(7):7, October-November, 1992.
Biography of the 'baroness' puts fiction to shame, review of They Called Her the Baroness: the Life of Catherine de Hueck Doherty, by Lorene Hanley Duquin, The New World, 104(20):17, May 17, 1996.
Catholic schools make the best antipoverty investments, U.S. Catholic, 62(6):22-26, June, 1997.
The house that friendship built, Salt of the Earth, 17(4):19-20, July/August, 1997.
Catherine de Hueck Doherty, unsigned article in Initiatives:
in Support of Christians in the World, newsletter of the
A gripping story of a saint's life, review of The Life of Thomas More, by Peter Ackroyd, The New World, 107(9):20, March 7, 1999.
How wrestling went way from Quigley, Quigley Alumni Newsletter, 9(3):8-9, Spring, 1999.
Quality of life, UIC, and the Catholic contribution, Full Circle: Quarterly Newspaper of the John Paul II Newman Center, 7(1), Fall, 2000.
Reflections on “Catholic thoughts on war,” Cardinal Newman Quarterly, 1(3):3,9-10, April 4, 2002.
Other Conference Papers:
“Building Our Homes and
Businesses without Silence on Life: Integrating Catholic Commitment on Life and
Love into Parish-Initiated
or Parish-Supported Local
Development,” a paper given at the conference on The Family: Searching
for Fairest Love, Notre Dame Center for Ethics and Culture, Notre Dame
University, November 7, 2008.
“Msgr.
Reynold Hillenbrand: a Reassessment,” a
paper submitted to the Spring meeting of the American
Catholic Historical Association (April 17-18, 2009), LaSalle University, Philadelphia,
PA
“Community Organizing and
Social Change in Light of Caritas in Veritate,” a paper given at the conference
“The Summons of Freedom: Virtue, Sacrifice, and the Common Good, Notre Dame Center
for Ethics and Culture, Notre Dame University, November 13, 2009.
Wikipedia Contributions and Major Edits:
Archbishop Quigley Preparatory Seminary
Manuscripts:
The radical spirit in Utopia, 1970
Priesthood of Christ, 1970.
The myth of the primal committee, 1971.
Bernard of Clairvaux (and so on), 1971.
Mental health as mutual aid, 1973.
In quest of the historical committee: an essay on Christian praxis, 1974.
Nicodemus, Prometheus, and Ahab: three faces in search of a loving self, 1975.
Sanity and social justice, 1976.
Identity and mercy, 1978.
What is public policy analysis? – a brief
selection from the literature, from catalogues of public policy programs, and
from faculty presentations. Public Policy Analysis
Seminar Manuscript, School of Urban Planning and Policy,
Proposal for Chicago Encyclopedia of Regional Policy and Development, 1995.
Why Chicago needs more landlords, 1996
An argument for a complete Catholic urban university, 1997
The work of the laity, Chicago style, 1997
On what's
at stake between the tribesman and the financier, 9/21/01
How to avoid a retreat from quality, 10/20/01
The Catholic Priest in the
United States: 30 years later, 2002
Reflections on faith and neighborhood development, 2004
Courses Taught:
(UIC, 1983-) Ethics and leadership in planning, Computers and planning, Advanced methods of policy analysis (teaching assistantship), workshops on spreadsheets and GIS; (Niles/Loyola, 1992-4) Formal logic, Philosophy of the city, Philosophy of social science, Philosophy: ethics in society, Philosophy of human nature, Politics, Sociology of the street gang; (St. Ignatius College Prep, 1980-2) Social Justice, Ethics, World religions, Introduction to Catholicism; (Loyola U., 1974) graduate student trainer, communications and change agent skills.
Public Service Committees/Presentations/Panels:
Chicago Electronic Commerce Initiative, participant, 1995-2001.
Policy Research and Action Group (PRAG), community access to technology working group, member, 1996-2001. Various related presentations.
Assisted Chicagoland Chamber of
Commerce and
Advisory Council,
Panelist, for U.S. Dept. of
Commerce "Networks for People: TIIAP
at Work" conference, Washington, D.C., 10/28/97.
CTC/Net conference advisory committee, 1998.
Participant, Cook County Assessor's Tax Policy Forum 1998-2000.
Numerous presentations to public and private organizations on information and telecommunications policy and strategy.
Boards:
Chair, Academy of St. Priscilla Board of Specified Jurisdiction, 2009-
President, Friendship House
Board, 1982 to present.
Founding President and subsequent board member, ShabbonaPark Advisory Council, Inc., 1990 to 2000.
Founding President, Friends of Quigley North, Inc., 1989-9.
Hillenbrand Institute, 1994-2000.
Development Council, Benedictine
Sisters of
National Center for the Laity, 1995-2000.
Integritas
Institute, 1997-2004.
Member:
American
Association for the Advancement of Science, 1987-89, 1999-2005
American Catholic
Historical Association, 2009-
American Institute of
Certified Planners, 1994-1997, 1997-99, 1999-2002, 2003-2005, 2005-09,
2009-
American Planning Association,
1984-1997, 1997-99, 1999-2002, 2003-2005, 2005-09, 2009-
Association for Public Policy Analysis and
Management 1990-1998.
Econometric Society, 1988-1991.
Urban and Regional Information Systems
Association, 1999-2002.
UIC University Committees:
Administrative Information Technology Services Committee, 2000-1.
Committee of Assistant and Associate Deans, 1996-.
Deans' Council, 1999-2000.
East Side Space Planning Committee, 2001-4.
East Side Space Management Committee, 2004-.
Catholic Studies Steering Committee, 2002-3
Vice Provost’s Faculty Affairs Committee, 2008-
Provost's GIS Task Force,
2000-.
Senate Subcommitee on Buildings and
Grounds, 1998-, Chair, 2000-.
Senate Support Services Committee, 2000-. Chair,
2007-08.
Space Request Decision Criteria Subcommittee, 2005-.
UIC Research Advisory Committee, 2007-.
UIC Research Advisory Council, 2005-.
UIC Chancellor's Task Force on Sustainability, 2007-
Several ad-hoc administrative and search committees.
Faculty
UIC Circle
Certifications
CRA, Certified Research Administrator, Research
Administrators Certification Council, 2008-.
Awards
1969, Excellence in English, Quigley Seminary North, Chicago
1982, Outstanding Educator, St. Ignatius College Prep, Chicago
1998, Award for Extraordinary Service, UIC College of Urban Planning and Public
Affairs
2005, Chancellor's Academic Professional Excellence Award (CAPE), University of
Illinois at Chicago
2005, University of Illinois Alumni Association, Lighting of the Flame,
Official UIC Torch Bearer, 12/29/05.
2009, Archbishop James E. Quigley Distinguished Alumnus Award, Quigley Alumni
Association
Quote:
“My career has been a bit like the character Bert in the Disney film ‘Mary Poppins.’ I appear one day as a one-man band, and the next as a chimney sweep. My job is to bring out the magic in others.”
Biosketch:
http://tigger.uic.edu/~schorsch/php/aboutajs3_102607.htm
Profiles:
http://www.uic.edu/cuppa/CUPPA_Mag_F06/faculty_update.html#schorsch
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Personal Home Page:
http://www.uic.edu/~schorsch/php/resume15.htm
Facebook:
http://uic.facebook.com/profile.php?id=716978754
LinkedIn Public Profile:
http://www.linkedin.com/pub/7/a10/220
Copyright 1969-2009, Albert J. Schorsch, III. All Rights Reserved.
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