Interim Director of Graduate Studies
Tom Borrup
Tom Borrup is the founder of Creative Community Builders, working with cities, foundations, and nonprofits across the United States, leveraging cultural and creative assets for community revitalization and change. He served as executive director of Intermedia Arts, a multidisciplinary, multicultural community arts center in Minneapolis from 1980 to 2002. He is author of The Power of Culture in City Planning (2021), The Creative Community Builders’ Handbook (2006), coeditor of Democracy as Creative Practice (2024), and The Routledge Handbook of Placemaking (2021). His doctoral research addressed organizational and social networks in urban cultural districts. He holds a PhD in Leadership and Change from Antioch University.
Faculty
Maurice Harris
Maurice Harris is the Research Manager for Transwestern Real Estate's Minneapolis office. At Transwestern he conducts research supporting the efforts of the team on a range of real estate, demographic, and related research topics. Prior to Transwestern Maurice was the research manager at GREATER MSP Partnership, where his roles included conducting research to support economic development and market research efforts for the recruitment, retention, and attraction of businesses to the region. He is also responsible for the development and maintenance of intelligence directly related to supporting regional economic development efforts. Originally from St. Louis, MO, he obtained his master’s degree from the University of Missouri-Columbia in Public Affairs, specializing in public policy analysis and regional development, and his bachelor’s degree from Knox College majoring in political science and history.
Carol Rinkoff
Dr. Rinkoff has been teaching in and administering higher education since 2005. She is most interested in systems thinking and information fluency, which have in common asking good questions, critical thinking, and collecting information and turning it into applied knowledge and wisdom. Carol has previously served higher education institutions in Minnesota, California, and Maryland as the director of undergraduate and graduate business programs, dean of academic affairs, dean of a satellite campus, and vice president of academic affairs. She has coauthored a book on how managers can use social media in business, and teaches a graduate course in CCAPS, CIVE/ASCL 6314 – Leading Projects and Teams.
- CIVE/ASCL 6314 – Leading Projects and Teams
- ABUS 4106 – Scandals versus Best Practices: Business Ethics in the Real World
- ABUS 4108 – Personal Ethical Decision Making
Jamie Schumacher
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Jamie Schumacher is LISC Twin Cities’ program officer for Creative Placemaking and Communications and the former executive director of the West Bank Business Association (WBBA). Her role at LISC is to work with the Twin Cities’ creative and cultural districts.
Originally from Los Angeles, Jamie is committed to work and passion at the intersection of art, culture, and economic development. A long history of working with the students on hands-on community based projects, she now teaches graduate students via the CIVE Program.
Jamie is also a visual artist and an accomplished writer, the recipient of multiple awards. In addition to her three books—Half a World Away (2024), Butterflies and Tall Bikes (2021), and It's Never Going to Work (2018)—her written work has been featured in Pollen and Minnesota Women’s Press, and she contributes regularly to the Star Tribune.
Advisor
Margo Gray
Margo has advised with the College of Continuing and Professional Studies since 2018. They have two decades of experience in the nonprofit and arts and culture sectors and believe in building relationships between disciplines and demographics to create more equitable opportunities for learning and advancement. They served as the inaugural co-chair of CCAPS’s Inclusivity Council and are a facilitator for the university’s Racial Justice Training Program for advisors. Margo is also an experienced designer who creates games, installations, and interactive performances, including sex education games. Margo holds a BA from Grinnell College and an MFA from Carnegie Mellon University, and they were a Fulbright Fellow at the Moscow Art Theatre School.
Margo advises for the MPS in Arts and Cultural Leadership, MPS in Civic Engagement, MPS in Sexual Health, Sex Therapy Certificate, Advanced Sexual Health Education Certificate and Transgender and Gender Diverse Health Certificate.