Alvin Schorr papers

Alvin Schorr was born in New York City in 1921. He earned his BSS from the City University of New York and his MSW from Washington University in St. Louis. In 1958, Schorr began working for the federal government as a Family Life Specialist in the Social Security Administration. Starting in 1963, Schorr was the Social Security Administration's Acting Chief of Long Range Research, and in 1965 he moved to the Office of Economic Planning. In 1967, he moved to the Department of Health, Education, and Welfare as the Deputy Assistant Secretary for Individual and Family Services.

In 1968, Schorr was appointed Professor of Social Policy and Director of the Center for Studies of Income Maintenance Policy at Brandeis University. In 1970, Schorr became Dean of the New York University School of Social Work, and from 1973 to 1977 he was the General Director of the New York Community Service Society. From 1979 through 1991, Schorr was the Leonard Mayo Professor of Family and Child Welfare at Case Western Reserve University. Schorr published more than 300 articles and ten books, and served as editor-in-chief of the journal, Social Work. Schorr died in 2016.