Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel
School of Applied Social Sciences
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Transforming futures: $5M Mandel Foundation grant expands scholarships, boosts enrollment and supports workforce
In January 2024, the Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Foundation awarded the Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences a five-year, $5 million grant to support scholarships for promising master’s degree students, known as “Mandel Scholars.” “It is rare to receive such a…
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September 22, 2017
Two Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences faculty members examined the public health and moral models of understanding addiction in an op-ed published in the Akron Beacon Journal.
Mark Singer, the Leonard W. Mayo Professor in Family and Child Welfare, and Lenore Kola, ass...
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September 19, 2017
The Mandel School International Education Program will host a lunch and learn session for the Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel School of Social Sciences’ study abroad program in Guatemala.
This lunch and learn session will be offered today (Sept. 19) and Wednesday, Sept. 27, from 12:45 to 1:45 p.m. i...
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September 14, 2017
Mixed-income housing communities were supposed to remedy the severe decline in the quality of public housing in the latter part of the 20th century, where families living in poverty were rarely—if ever—able to escape their dire economic situations.
But a body of research by Mark Joseph, the Leona B...
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August 31, 2017
The university community is invited to the Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences’ upcoming lecture titled “Promoting Smart Decarceration through Research, Practice, and Policy Partnerships.”
This lecture will be held Friday, Sept. 8, from 12:30 to 2 p.m. in Jack, Joseph a...
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August 30, 2017
The university community is invited to participate in the Day of Dialogue Friday, Sept. 1, from 12:30 to 2 p.m. Discussions will be held at six locations across campus, each with a different topic.
Participants will share ideas and hear diverse perspectives on local, national and societal issues.
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August 28, 2017
Mandel School students and Assistant Professor Mark Chupp pose for photo on study abroad trip to Ecuador.
The Mandel School International Education Program will host a Brown Bag Lunch Series to provide information on upcoming Mandel School study abroad opportunities.
The first two Brown Bag Lunch ...
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August 03, 2017
Faculty and staff who are student advisors are invited to join the Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences’ International Education Program and Dean Grover "Cleve" Gilmore for lunch Thursday, Aug. 10, at noon at the Mandel Community Studies Center, Room 115.
This will be an...
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July 28, 2017
Mark Singer, the Leonard W. Mayo Professor in Family and Child Welfare at the Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences, co-authored an op-ed in The Plain Dealer about modern policing.
The article, co-authored with Bernard Buckner, a former Cuyahoga Metropolitan Housing Autho...
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July 24, 2017
Three students from the Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel School of Social Sciences have spent their summer in an immersive international experience—without ever leaving Cleveland.
It’s all been part of an internship with ϳԹ’s Young African Leaders Initiative (YALI) progra...
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June 28, 2017
One in four Ohio children will experience domestic violence before reaching adulthood, according to a new study.
The lifetime cost from these experiences is nearly $2.2 billion, including $476 million in increased health care, $600 million associated with crime and $1.1 billion in productivity loss...