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TEACHING AND RESEARCH INTERESTS:
• Affordable Housing
• Community Economic Development
• Transportation System Analysis
• Urban Land Use Patterns
• Growth and Development of Inner City Neighborhoods
DEGREES:
M.P.A. (1978) Public Administration, University of North Carolina
at Charlotte
M.C.P. (1973) Urban Planning, Harvard University
B.S. (1971) Sociology and Urban Studies, Dartmouth College
CLASS INFO:
Environmental Planning
PROFILE:
Ike Heard earned undergraduate degrees in Sociology and Urban Studies
from Dartmouth College (where he was a National Achievement Scholar)
and earned graduate degrees in Urban Planning from Harvard University
(where he was a US Dept. of HUD Fellow) and in Public Administration
and the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. He was also a
Fannie Mae Foundation Fellow at the Harvard University Kennedy School
of Government's Executive Program for State and Local Government.
Having received his primary and secondary education in Charlotte,
Ike returned to Charlotte after graduating from Harvard where he
and his wife Patricia have raised a now grown son and daughter.
Patricia (MSW, MBA) is the Executive Director of a small United
Way supported social service agency and has a private counseling
and family therapy practice.
Ike Heard worked for 13 years as a city planner in the Charlotte-Mecklenburg
local government, for 3 years with private developers and homebuilders,
for 9 years as the Executive Director of the Northwest Corridor
Community Development Corporation (associated with Johnson C. Smith
University in Charlotte) and for 4 years as the Charlotte Office
Director for the Enterprise Foundation. In addition, he has maintained
a private planning consulting practice working with community-based
development groups, local governments, historically black colleges
and universities, banks and the federal government in a variety
of community economic development projects.
Ike is the former chair of the Mecklenburg County Board of Elections
and the Charlotte-Mecklenburg Planning Commission. He presently
serves on the Board of Directors for the Arts and Science Council
of Charlotte-Mecklenburg, the NC Environmental Education Fund, the
NC State Bar (as a public member) and the Real Estate Advisory Council
for the Belk College of Business Administration at UNC Charlotte.
Mr. Heard is a member of the American Institute of Certified Planners.
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