Irving Spitzberg

Creating new businesses in the United States poses complex challenges for foreign nationals with the prospect of extraordinary rewards. I provide the full range of advice necessary to guide foreign nationals in creating new businesses and branch offices in the United States.

B.A.(cum laude), Columbia 1964 B.Phil. Oxon, 1966 J.D., Yale, 1969

2004—President, North County Preservation

1989-2001 President, The Knowledge Company, an international educational credential and work experience evaluation firm

1996 – Member, Virginia State Bar

1989- Immigration Law Practice-The Spitzberg Law Firm, Of Counsel, Spirer & Goldberg, Washington, D.C.

1989-90 Senior Consultant, Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, Special Report on Community on Campus

1986-2000 Vice President, Sino-American Ventures, Inc.(International trading company)

1985- Member, Bar of the District of Columbia

1985-88 Executive Director, Council for Liberal Learning, Association of American Colleges

1985-87 Founding Coordinator, Alliance for Leadership Development; Director, Luce Leadership Project

1985-87 Senior Consultant, Carnegie Foundation for the Advancement of Teaching, Project on the Quality of the Undergraduate Experience

1984-85 Sabbatical to study university governance

1980-84 General Secretary, American Association of University Professors, Washington, DC

1979-80 Coordinator, Education Policy Program, M.Ed., SUNY/Buffalo-Alvan Ikoku College Distance Learning M.S. Project, Owerri, Nigeria

1974-80 Associate Professor of Education and Policy Studies, SUNY/Buffalo

1974-78 Dean of the Colleges, SUNY/Buffalo (14 residential and/or theme colleges)

1973-74 Visiting Lecturer, Department of Political Science, Brown University

1973 Consultant to the Board of Adult Education in Kenya (design of a new adult education system for Kenya)

1971-74 Fellow, Institute of Current World Affairs (educational research and policy development)

1970-71 Chair, Program in Public Policy Studies of The Claremont Colleges, Claremont, California (creation and implementation of the program)

1969- Member of the Bar of the State of California

1969-73 Assistant Professor, Philosophy and Social Institutions, Pitzer College, Claremont, California;

Assistant Professor of Political Science, Claremont Graduate School, Claremont, California;

1968-69 Research Assistant to Professor John Simon, Yale Law School (investigating problems in education law)

1967-68 Staff Assistant to Commissioner Dorothy Hart Hirshon of the New York City Commission on Human Rights (investigating the three experimental decentralized districts of the New York City public schools)

1967-69 Assistant to the Superintendent of the Darien, Connecticut, public schools

1963-64 President and General Manager, WKCR & WKCR-FM, Columbia University radio station;

Research Assistant to Professor Louis M. Hacker, Columbia University;

Founder, SEER (Student Educational Exchange Roundtable), tutorial program sponsored by Columbia University and model for later Federal program, Upward Bound