Humanities, Arts + Social Sciences

Benjamin George and Lauryn Bailey, Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine students, won trainee research prizes for their work in non-small cell lung cancer. Their work will be presented at the Radiological Society of North America’s (RSNA) annual meeting later this month. George’s work...

November is Nonprofit Awareness Month, a time that celebrates and promotes the support of nonprofits in the United States. This month is especially relevant to Cleveland, which has a long and thriving history of nonprofit innovation—the city is the birthplace of the first community chest (a predeces...

November is Nonprofit Awareness Month, a time that celebrates and promotes the support of nonprofits in the United States. This month is especially relevant to Cleveland, which has a long and thriving history of nonprofit innovation—the city is the birthplace of the first community chest (a predeces...

Mark Joseph, the Leona Bevis/Marguerite Haynam Professor in Community Development and Founding Director of the National Initiative on Mixed-income Communities, was featured in RentWire NYC Newsletter’s article, “One Building, Two Worlds,” on Tuesday, Oct. 25. Read the article This story appeared...

First Year Cleveland (FYC) announced it has been awarded a $4.8 million grant from the Ohio Department of Medicaid (ODM) to distribute to local partner organizations working to improve Black maternal and infant health outcomes in Cuyahoga County. “The support we have received from the state will b...

The Council on Social Work Education's (CSWE) Annual Program Meeting (APM) is the place where social work education professionals collaborate, learn, teach and grow. This year’s theme is Leading Critical Conversations: Human Rights Are Global Rights and will feature social work education presentatio...

More than half a century ago, the Higher Education Act (HEA) of 1965 was signed into law to help level the playing field for students from low-income and minority backgrounds. Its anniversary (Nov. 8) is marked by the First-Generation College Celebration, a nationwide event recognizing how HEA-initi...

WalletHub: Robert Fischer, associate professor at the Mandel School and co-director of the school’s Center on Urban Poverty and Community Development, discussed the biggest mistakes that people make when donating to charity and the red flags they should look for before donating money to a charitable...

Analysis of ‘growth mindset’ research suggests little to no positive effect on student performance New research suggests the “growth mindset” strategy favored by some educators to improve student performance hasn’t lived up to its promise—resulting in time and effort dedicated to growth mindsets in...

Dennis Young believes the 2012 closure of the nation’s most renowned social service agency should have been a clarion call. If Chicago’s Hull House, founded in 1889 by Nobel Prize winner Jane Addams, couldn’t survive economic headwinds, every nonprofit could be at risk. And, as the pandemic painfu...