Norman Krumholz Scholarship Established at Cleveland State

Cleveland State University's Maxine Goodman Levin College of Urban Affairs — and its faculty, staff, and friends — have endowed a scholarship for long-time APA leader Norman Krumholz, FAICP, in honor of his 25 years of service to the university.

The Professor Norman Krumholz Scholarship was established at the Cleveland State University Foundation to benefit urban planning students attending the Levin College of Urban Affairs. The scholarship will be awarded to a graduate urban planning student who demonstrates an interest in equity planning and/or neighborhood planning.

"For more than three decades, Norm Krumholz has been the social conscience of urban planning for America and Northeast Ohio," said Mark S. Rosentraub, Dean of the Levin College of Urban Affairs. "In 25 years he has educated legions of planners who now focus on building the economy of America while never forgetting the needs of America's urban neighborhoods."

According to Cleveland Plain Dealer columnist Sarah Crump: "When Krumholz ... accepted the plaque at a reception, he joked, 'As a Cleveland landmark, you cannot demolish me for a year.'"

Krumholz is a professor in the Levin College of Urban Affairs. His equity planning practice on behalf of poor and working-class people of Cleveland has become a national model for planners in other cities who are struggling to retain their industrial and economic base while making their neighborhoods more liveable.

Prior to joining the faculty at Cleveland State, Krumholz served as a planning practitioner in Ithaca, Pittsburgh, and Cleveland, where he was planning director for 10 years under Mayors Carl B. Stokes, Ralph J. Perk, and Dennis Kucinich.

He is a Fellow of the American Institute of Certified Planners (AICP) and a past president of the American Planning Association (APA) and AICP. He received an APA Distinguished Leadership Award and was a fellow and winner of the Rome Prize in Urban Planning of the American Academy of Rome. President Jimmy Carter appointed him to the National Commission of Neighborhoods.

Krumholz received the 2001 Homer C. Wadsworth Award as an advocate and practitioner of "equity" urban planning. He was recognized for acting on his conviction, as an urban planner, civic activist, exemplary teacher and prolific writer, that city planning can and should be a means by which communities strive to achieve economic and social justice for all their citizens.

Professor Krumholz has written or edited five books on planning and urban neighborhoods and has published in many journals. His book Making Equity Planning Work, with Professor John Forester, won the Paul Davidoff Award for best progressive book of the year from the Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning.

More than $27,000 in donations has been received from the college's faculty, staff, alumni, and friends for the Norman Krumholz Scholarship. Contributions in Krumholz's honor are still welcomed. Make gifts payable to:

Cleveland State University Foundation/Krumholz Scholarship
Levin College of Urban Affairs
2121 Euclid Ave.
Cleveland, OH 44115

For further details contact Sheila Samuels at 216-687-5538.