MARK LEWIS DRUCKER

 

Office:

   Department of Public Administration and Policy Analysis

   Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville

   Edwardsville, IL  62026-1457

   (618) 692-3762

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   18 So. Kingshighway,  

   Apt. 14R, 

   St. Louis, MO63108

   (314) 367-0559

 

EXPERIENCE


SOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY AT EDWARDSVILLE     ( l976 -  )
 

 

Current Course Assignments:
 

ST. LOUIS UNIVERSITY (l975 - l976)

Visiting Assistant Professor of Urban Affairs

Course Assignments:

Policy Analysis for Budgeting and Administration

Retrenchment Planning

Federal Urban Policy

Training:Administrators of Community Residential Treatment Centers

COUNCIL OF UNIVERSITY INSTITUTES FOR URBAN AFFAIRS (l974 - l975)

Executive Director, CUIUA, the national organization of the directors and deans of university institutes and centers for urban affairs, with memberships in over l70 universities throughout the country.

Organized national meeting in New York, and assisted in development of six regional meetings across the country.Edited eight-page monthly newsletter.Coordinated information and consultation clearinghouse services.

NEW SCHOOL FOR SOCIAL RESEARCH (1971 - 1975)

AssistantProfessor, Graduate Department of Urban Affairs and Policy Analysis

Course Assignments:

Laboratories in issue analysis, resource allocation and budgeting, and strategic planning

Seminar in organizational development for community agencies

EDUCATION

BOSTON UNIVERSITY

Ph.D. Candidate in Health Policy, 1988-

Pew Doctoral Fellowship in Health Policy, focusing on policy analysis applications in managed and acute care, quality and utilization management, and health services planning and evaluation, 1988-1990

Additional study at Harvard School of Public Health (physician practice variation), Kennedy School (study group on White House policymaking) and MIT Urban Planning (housing and social services relationships).

HARVARD UNIVERSITY

Received M.B.A. degree in l97l.Editor of Annual Report.

COLUMBIA COLLEGE

Received Bachelor of Arts degree with major in Urban Studies-Government, l969.

President of graduating Senior Class, and Chairman, Executive Committee of Student Representatives to Trustees.Originated Urban Studies as a major in l967.

 

OUTSIDE ACTIVITIES

Consultant, East-West Gateway Coordinating Council, on regional social and economic indicators, 1998.

Member, Consulting Team with Dace Associates, recommending anti-gang security programming, for the Springfield, Illinois, Housing Authority, 1995.

Interviewer, Urban Institute, of fifty ex-offenders, for the Opportunity To Succeed comprehensive case management program in St. Louis, 1995.

Member, Consulting Team with William M. Mercer, Inc., evaluating Illinois's Medicaid Partnership Initiative, 1991-1992.

Member, Consulting Team for the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, evaluating their Faculty Fellowship Program in Health Care Financing, 1988 - 1990.

Consultant to Tennessee State University Institute of Government, on program development, 1986.

Faculty Fellow, National Mortgage Bankers Association, l982 - l984.

Consultant to St. Louis Relocation Clearinghouse, on low income housing programming opportunities, l983.

Consultant to United Way of Greater St. Louis, on Missouri State Children's Trust Fund Legislation, l983.

Consultant to the Danforth Foundation, evaluating the St. Louis Leadership Program, l979 - l980.

Consultant to St. Louis Citizens Educational Task Force, for a Missouri Committee of the Humanities school desegregation grant, l977 - l978.

Consultant to Connecticut General Life Insurance Company for executive management training, l975.

Consultant on social action to Westchester Reform Temple of Scarsdale, l97l - l972.

 

ORGANIZATIONAL ACTIVITIES

 

Member, Planning and Healthcare Committees, St. Louis Children’s Summit, 1998

President, St. Louis Chapter, Missouri Public Health Association, 1996 - 1997

Member, State Board of Directors, Missouri Public Health Association, 1996-1997

Vice-President for Community Affairs, St. Louis Chapter, American Jewish Congress, 1996 -

Member, Domestic Issues Strategies Committee, St. Louis Jewis Community Relations Council, 1996 – 1997.

Member, Health Care Community Action Team, St. Louis 2004, 1996 - 1998

Member, Neighborhood Working Group, St. Louis Regional Jobs Initiative, 1996

President, Board of Directors, Housing Solutions, Inc., 1993 - 1995

Member, Community Development Working Group, St. Louis City Empowerment Zone Proposal Committee, 1994.

Member, Confluence St. Louis Task Force on Youth Crime, 1992 - 1993.

Member, Healthcare Study Group, Vision for Children at Risk, 1992 - 1993.

Member, United Way of Greater St. Louis Social Group and Recreational Services Panel, 1987 - 1988.

Member, Board of Directors and Chair, Board Planning Committee, Confluence St. Louis 1987 - 1988.

Member, Confluence St. Louis Task Force on Low-Income Housing, 1987 - 1988.

Member, Columbia College Charter Bicentennial Committee, 1987.

Member, Advisory Committee, Metro St. Louis Forum Community Resource Book, l985 - 1986.

President, Board of the Satellite School, Webster Groves, l984 - l985.

Member, Confluence St. Louis Task Force on Healthcare, 1984-1985.

Member, Sunday School Board, United Hebrew Temple, 1980 - 

First Vice-President, and Chair, Plan Development Committee, Greater St. Louis Health Systems Agency, 1979-1982.Also, Member of St. Louis Municipal Health Study Group (1981), and Radiation Therapy Technical Advisory Group (1980).

Secretary, Lewis Center for the Arts Committee, University City, 1982.

Chair, St. Louis Secondary Schools Committee for Columbia College, l975 - 1986.

Member, Policy Advisory Committee, Council on Municipal Performance, l974 - l983.

Member, National Governing Council, American Jewish Congress, l973 - l975.

National Chairman, Recruitment Committee, Columbia Alumni Association, l973 - l975.

Recipient, Dean's Award, from Columbia College, l974.

WORK AT SOUTHERN ILLINOIS UNIVERSITY AT EDWARDSVILLE

Course Assignments (1976-1988):

Laboratory in Issue Analysis

Laboratory in Strategic Budget Planning

Laboratory in Program Design and Evaluation

Courses in Operations Management, Health Policy, Education Policy, and Institutionalizing Policy Analysis within the Policymaking Process

Coordinator, Practitioner Round Table Series on Public Policy Analysis and Evaluation:l) “Setting Objectives,” 2) “Marketing for Public and Nonprofit Agencies,” 3) “Applying Priorities Within Budgets,” 4) “Cutting Costs,” 5) “Program Self-Evaluation,” 6) “Federal Initiatives,” and 7) “Analysis for Executive Decisionmaking.”

Policy Research and Public Service:

1. Organized “Helping Inner City Homeowners,” a conference on community development housing repair financing for 145 local officials and lenders, January, 1977.

2. Introduced issue analysis policy planning to the city of Fairview Heights, Illinois, as a consultant during the spring of 1977.

3. Organized a St. Louis Workshop on Public Service Career Opportunities forWomen for 157 women, May, 1977

4. Ran budget planning training workshops for department heads in the City of East St. Louis, Illinois, September, 1977.

5. Coordinated a “Workshop for Women Local Policymakers,”November, 1978.

6. Ran “Meet the Mayors,”a conference for students, in conjunction with the St. Louis meetings of the National League of Cities, December, 1978.

7. Founded East St. Louis Fellows Program, Fall, 1979.

8. Provided consultation to the East Wind Community (strategic planning) and the Hannibal, Missouri Tourism Commission (development), Summer, 1980.

9. Developed alternative strategies for Centerre Bank, St. Louis, on its role in metropolitan port development, 1981.

10. Surveyed local agencies in 24 states to study future implementation of federal Job Training Partnership Act legislation, 1983.

11. Developed alternative strategies for radio programming for the Oblate Media, WMRY-FM, 1986.

12. Proposed policy directions to St. Louis' A. Philip Randolph Institute, 1988.

University Service:

Consultant, to SIU Planning Advisory Committee

Member, of the Special Education Program Review Committee

Member, Physical Facilities Committee

Member, Academic Affairs Conference

Member, Budget Review Committee

 

WRITING PROJECTS

Urban Decisionmaking (book) an annotated bibliography for curricular and agency in-house training purposes, Gale Urban Studies Series, l98l.

INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION, “Public Hospitals As Competitors for Medicaid Revenue,” 22 (9-10), Fall 1999.

INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION:“The Boundaries of Generosity:Can Administrators in Charity Hospitals Provide 'Free Care'?” 20 (6), 1997, pp. 1221-1253.

Proceedings, March 7, 1999, Conference on “The Teaching of Public Administration,” “Public and Nonprofit Employee Role Models.”

Proceedings, March 22, 1998, Conference on “The Teaching of Public Administration,” “Studying Immigration Through the Eyes of Hollywood Filmmakers.”

Proceedings, March 20, 1997, Conference on “The Teaching of Public Administration,” “Developing Case Studies About the Comparative Roles of the Public and Private Sectors.”

Proceedings, February 14, 1996, Conference on “The Teaching of Public Administration,” “Public and Private Roles and Relationships:The Case of National Healthcare Reform.”

Proceedings, March 25, 1995, Conference on “The Teaching of Public Administration” -- “Teaching About Policymaking in the Clinton White House.”

Presentation, July 24, 1994, American Society for Public Administration, National Conference -- “Voluntary Busing as ‘School Choice.’’”

Proceedings, March 19, 1994, Conference on “The Teaching of Public Administration” -- “Repositioning Healthcare Policy Course Content:Responding to the President's Plan.”

Proceedings, March 18, 1994, National Symposium on Public Administration Theory -- “The Professional Autonomy Subscript to the National Health Policy Reform Debate.”

Presentation, July 25, 1993, American Society for Public Administration, National Conference “Standards in Environments Dominated by Choice.”

Proceedings, March 26, 1993, Conference on “The Teaching of Public Administration,” “Living Finals:A New Approach for Interactive Learning in Public Policy Courses.”

Proceedings, February 7, 1992, Conference on “The Teaching of Public Administration,” -- “Does the President Have a Domestic PPolicy?”

Presentation, March 20, 1992, Southwestern Political Science Association Meeting - “Rationing in Health Services - a Resource Allocation Perspective.”

JOURNAL OF MANAGEMENT SCIENCE AND POLICY ANALYSIS (Winter 1991):“Issues in the Evaluation of the Quality of Ambulatory Care in Health Maintenance Organizations.”

Presentation, March 17, 1989, Urban Affairs Association Annual Meeting, “The 1990s Urban Health Policy Agenda:Issues Confronting Urban Hospital Planning.”

Proceedings, March 15, 1989, Conference on “The Teaching of Public Administration” “Professional Practice Role Definition - the Instructional Use of Job Advertisements for Health Policy Analysts.”

Presentation, February 17, 1989, National Conference of the Canadian Association of Planning Students - “Strategic Planning Criteria for U.S. Health Policy Analysis.”

Proceedings, April 15, 1988, Conference on “The Teaching of Public Administration” - “The Assessment Movement and Faculty Performance Evaluation at Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville.”

Presentation, March 10, 1988, Urban Affairs Association Annual Meeting -- “The Role of the Public Administration Degree Holder in Managing Urban Nonprofit Organizations.” (with Miriam Ershkowitz, Walter F. Baber and Robert V. Bartlett).Later versions presented in 1988 at the American Society for Public Administration National Conference on April 18 (“New Careers for M.P.A.'s in the Public Sector”).

Presentation, November 6, 1987, American Society for Public Administration, Region VI Meeting - “Decisionmakers and Policy Analysts:The Use of Policy Issues in Shared Methodologies.”

Proceedings, April 30, 1986, Conference on “The Teaching of Public Administration,” “Developing the Relationships Between Public Policy Programs on the Secondary School, Undergraduate, and Graduate Levels at Different Institutions within a Region.”

Presentation, April 14, 1986, American Society for Public Administration, National Conference -- “The Impact of DRG's Upon Hospital Laaboratory Services to Consumers.”

Presentation, March 6, 1986, Urban Affairs Association, Annual Meeting -- “CurrentInstitutional Pressures Upon University Urban Programs.”

Proceedings, April 25, l985, Conference on “The Teaching of Public Administration” -- “The City As a Map of Opportunities for Decisionmaking Project Work.”

Presentation, April l8, l985, Urban Affairs Association Annual Meeting, and March 26, l985, American Society for Public Administration, National Conference -- “City Budget Agency Professionals: Characteristics of Their Work.”

Presentation, March 23, l984, Urban Affairs Association Annual Meeting, “Policy Issues as Tools in Management Decisionmaking.”

Proceedings, March 9, l984, Conference on “The Teaching of Public Administration” -- “Curriculum Adaptations to Incorporate Private Sector Concepts within a Public Policy Analysis Curriculum.”

Report to Relocation Clearinghouse, December l983, “Identifying Low Income Housing Alternatives for State and Local Government” (with Elaine Morley).

Presentation, October 22, l983, Annual Conference of the Evaluation Research Society and Evaluation Network -- “Evaluating the Performance of State Human Services Trust Funds.”

Report to the International Association of Personnel in Employment Security, August l983, “Initial Local Implementation of the Federal Job Training Partnership Act.”

Presentation, April l8, l983, American Society for Public Administration, National Conference, “Setting Priorities During Periods of Resource Shortages: The Priority Choice Analysis Approach to Budgeting.”

Proceedings, May 6, l982, Conference on “The Teaching of Public Administration” -- “Retrenchment Planning: Methodology, and Its Role in the Curriculum.”

Proceedings, May 29, l98l, Conference on “The Teaching of Public Administration,” “Finding Out How Programs Work: The Need to Design Curriculum Content in Public Sector Production and Operations Management.”

Symposium, September 29, l980, Evaluation Network Conference, “Employing Strategic Criteria for Assessing Projects in a Communal Society” (with Elaine Morley).

Proceedings, May 11, l979, Conference on “The Teaching of Public Administration” -- “Teaching Program Design Methodology in a Graduate Urban Policy Analysis Curriculum” (published in Innovations in Teaching Public Administration, edited by Richard Heimovics and Annemarie Rizzo, University of Missouri-Kansas City, l98l).

Presentation, April l9, l979, Conference of the Council of University Institutes for Urban Affairs -- “Strategic Budget Planning During Periods of Urban Retrenchment.”

Proceedings, May 7, l978, Conference on “The Teaching of Public Administration” -- “Problem Solving Laboratories in an Urban Policy Analysis Curriculum.”

Proceedings, May 6, l977, Conference on “The Convergence between Urban Planning and Urban Administration,” -- “Teaching Prescriptive Approaches in Urban Professional Education.”

Proceedings, May l5, l976, National Conference on Single Room Occupancy Elderly -- “S.R.O.'s As Neighbors.”

Sunday New York Times Magazine, April l8, l976 -- “Getting In.”

Business and Society Review, Spring, l974 -- “Corporate Relocation to the Suburbs:Should Employees Move Too?”

College, Spring, l974 -- “Reverse Discrimination?”

Money, December, l972 -- “Admissions of an Ex-Admissions Man.”