 Meanwhile, he worked for the RAND Corporation, the Kerner Commission, the United States Congress Joint Economic Committee, the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development, the Internal Revenue Service, and the National Science Foundation.Meanwhile, with Luc E. Weber, Hirsch was the co-founder of the Glion Colloquium, a think tank on higher education which published many books about higher education policy.Hirsch endowed the Werner Z. Hirsch Award in Representational Drawing in the Department of Art at UCLA.