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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April 10, 2015
The Schubert Center for Child Studies and the Center on Urban Poverty and Community Development will host Merav Jedwab, postdoctoral fellow at University of Maryland School of Social Work and of the Heruv Institute in Jerusalem, who will present "Decision-Making in Child Protective Services: Perspec...
March 27, 2015
Senior Imani Scruggs is a product of alchemy. No, not the medieval chemical science. Rather Alchemy Inc., a mentoring program for adolescent black males in Akron.
The program, founded by Scruggs’ father, Kwame, provides positive role models for young men and uses mythological storytelling in combin...
March 19, 2015
Undergraduate students are invited to meet with faculty, current students and alumni to learn more about career options in social work and nonprofit management and the Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences' programs at an open house on Saturday, March 21, from 10 a.m. to 1...
March 17, 2015
Two alumni from the Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences will give a presentation, titled “From Program Operator to Program Officer: What practitioners bring to the world of philanthropy,” on Tuesday, March 24, from 4:30 to 6 p.m. at Mandel Community Studies Center, Room ...
March 16, 2015
Ann Buchanan, a distinguished leader and professor emeritus of social work and senior research associate in the Department of Social Policy and Intervention at Oxford University, England, will discuss the evolving profession of social work as this year’s speaker for the Herman D. Stein Lecture in In...
March 16, 2015
The Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences at ϳԹ received a four-year, $588,000 grant from the National Child Welfare Workforce Institute to provide tuition to 20 social workers from 10 Northeast Ohio county child welfare agencies.
The Mandel S...
March 04, 2015
ϳԹ researchers have tracked their development since birth
Since 1994, researchers at ϳԹ’s Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences have studied children prenatally exposed to cocaine and their mothers to track their de...
February 25, 2015
Gift creates the Albert and Beverly Higley Research Commons, encouraging collaboration in teaching, learning, scholarship and research
A $1 million commitment from The Higley Fund of the Cleveland Foundation—the largest single contribution from the fund in its history—will support the creation of ...
February 19, 2015
The Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences announces Conversations in Philanthropy, a three-part speaker series this spring sponsored by its Master of Nonprofit Organizations (MNO) program. Each event will feature two leaders in the philanthropic community who will engage i...
January 29, 2015
Imagine only knowing your life as starting at Chapter 2—the moment you met your adoptive family—with no access to critical family medical health information and maybe even your nationality, time and place of your birth or the names of your birth parents.
Since 1964, this has been the experience of ...