Humanities, Arts + Social Sciences
March 01, 2023
Social Work Month is a time to celebrate the great profession of social work. This year's theme is Social Work Breaks Barriers.
Throughout March, take some time to learn more about the many positive contributions of the profession, and use the items in the official NASW toolkit to celebrate all the...

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February 24, 2023
Our alumni successfully pursue social work and nonprofit management careers in a variety of traditional and non-traditional fields. Learn more from some of our incredible alums below on all that they've accomplished since graduating from the Mandel School!
Jeff ...
February 23, 2023
Dean Dexter Voisin sat down with John Piche, Cleveland Heights Public Library‘s outreach librarian, to talk about his book, America the Beautiful and Violent: Black Youth and Neighborhood Trauma in Chicago.
Piche runs a discussion group based around The New York Times‘ 1619 Project at the library. ...

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February 22, 2023
Members of the ϳԹ community are invited to join the Office for Inclusion, Diversity and Equal Opportunity and Kelvin Smith Library for an event celebrating the “Our Voices: Stories From Black Authors” series. The event will be held on Wednesday, Feb. 22, from 3 to 4 p.m....

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February 22, 2023
Members of the ϳԹ community are invited to join the Office for Inclusion, Diversity and Equal Opportunity and Kelvin Smith Library for an event celebrating the “Our Voices: Stories From Black Authors” series.
This event will be held today (Feb. 22) from 3 to 4 p.m. in K...

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February 20, 2023
Class Year: May 2023
Degree Program: MSW
Concentration: Community Practice for Social Change
Hometown: China
Field Education Organization: Neighborhood Connections in Cleveland, OH
Before beginning at ϳԹ, what were you doing?
I was a sociology student focused on th...

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February 17, 2023
The Mandel School's Lillian and Milford Harris Library is one of only a few libraries in the country dedicated entirely to social work literature and scholarship. Our librarians conduct virtual research consultations via email, phone or Zoom to help students find articles, books and other types of r...
February 16, 2023
Dean Dexter Voisin and colleagues were cited in a major Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) report, titled Youth Risk Behavior Survey Data Summary & Trends Report: 2011-2021, based on original research he lead in Chicago.
Read the report...

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February 16, 2023
WEWS: Robert Fischer, associate professor at the Mandel School and co-director of the school’s Center on Urban Poverty and Community Development, noted that while about 80% of the city's rental units still need lead-safe certification, the city is making positive strides. “In order to get there, we'...

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February 15, 2023
WKYC: Angela Newman-White discussed her new role as the executive director of First Year Cleveland, now housed within the Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences. The organization was formed in 2015 to help address Cuyahoga County’s concerning infant mortality rate—one of th...