After a nationwide search, the NYU School of Professional Studies (NYU SPS) announced the appointment of Marc Norman as associate dean of its Schack Institute of Real Estate, effective July 1. A renowned urban planner and a veteran in the field of community development and finance, Norman will focus the Schack Institute on educating the next generation of diverse leaders in real estate and urban development in New York City, across the U.S., and around the globe, taking an interdisciplinary approach on critical issues including housing, economic development and design, sustainability and property technology.
“We are thrilled to welcome Marc Norman to the NYU SPS Schack Institute of Real Estate. Under his leadership, the Schack Institute will become the preeminent home in the country for the interdisciplinary study of real estate and urban development,” said Angie Kamath, dean of the NYU School of Professional Studies. “He will create and implement student-centered approaches, build strong industry collaborations and utilize expertise across the NYU SPS disciplines to develop academic content that is relevant and that addresses critical changes occurring in cities and in society as a whole. In addition, he will continue to build upon the important work the Schack Institute is doing to ensure that diversity and inclusion is part of its core mission and leads to a more diverse, equitable, and inclusive future for the industry.”
Norman is the founder of the consulting firm “Ideas and Action,” faculty director of the Weiser Center for Real Estate at the Ross School of Business, an associate professor of practice at the University of Michigan and director of real estate initiatives at the Taubman College of Architecture and Urban Planning. Previous to his current positions, he held leadership positions at Duvernay+Brooks, as managing director; Deutsche Bank as vice president in the Community Development Finance Group and led Upstate, A Center for Design, Research and Real Estate at Syracuse University. He has worked collaboratively to develop or finance over 2,000 units totaling more than $400 million in total development costs.
Norman recently completed his chairmanship of the Federal Reserve’s Community Advisory Council and serves on a variety of other boards. He earned a master of arts in urban planning from the University of California, Los Angeles Graduate School of Architecture and Urban Planning and a bachelor of arts in political economy of Industrialized Societies from the University of California, Berkeley.
