Norman (“Norm”) Glickman (C’63, G’67, Gr’69), founder of the Urban Studies Program at Penn, died May 8. He was 76.

Dr. Glickman earned his BA, MA and PhD in economics from the University of Pennsylvania. He began his teaching career at Penn as a part-time lecturer in urban economics. He founded the Urban Studies Program and served as its director in the late 1960s until the early-1970s, when he was an assistant professor and later associate professor in city and regional planning. He was responsible for the overall administration and development of the interdisciplinary program concerning public policy analysis and the city, with the goal of connecting theory and practice. In 1976, he was awarded the Lindback Award for Distinguished Teaching, and in 1977 he took on a secondary appointment as an associate professor of regional science. He became a full professor of regional science in 1982. He also served on the Community Relations Committee of the University Council and the Faculty Grievance Commission of the Faculty Senate.

He left Penn to become the Mike Hogg Professor of Urban Policy and Economics at the Lyndon B. Johnson School of Public Affairs at the University of Texas at Austin, a position he held 1983 to 1989. He spent the remainder of his career at Rutgers, where from 1989 to 2000, he directed the Rutgers University Center for Urban Policy Research.

During his career, Dr. Glickman authored numerous books, monographs and reports. He served as an advisor to US Department of Housing and Urban Development on national urban policy, was a member of New Jersey Governor James J. Florio’s Council on Job Opportunities, was a member of the City of Austin, Texas Economic Development Task Force for the Austin Comprehensive Plan and served as chair of the Economic Development Commission for the City of Austin, and served on the Vice President’s Task Force on Youth Employment as a principal analyst for the US Department of Housing and Urban Development. He was the recipient of the President’s Award, the highest honor of the New Jersey Chapter of the American Planning Association, and he was awarded a Certificate of Special Achievement by the US Department of Housing and Urban Development.

Dr. Glickman is survived by his wife, Elyse M. Pivnick (GCP’76); daughters, Katy Rose (C’08) (Joshua Ellis) and Madeline Claire (C’12)  (Shomik Sarkar); and sister, Marj Brown.