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Weatherhead has a legacy of challenging the status quo to provide innovative ideas to empower future leaders to make positive, sustainable, and far-reaching changes in the world. Today, many see our building as a symbol of this out-of-the-box thinking. However, it is people – faculty, staff, alumni,...

Alumna Wilma Peebles-Wilkins (SAS '71) was a recent guest on an episode of the Mandel School's Change Leaders podcast. Born in Raleigh, North Carolina, in 1945, Wilma Peebles-Wilkins graduated from North Carolina State University in 1967 with a bachelor's degree in sociology and a minor in social w...

Flavio F. Marsiglia (GRS '91) recently appeared on an episode of the Mandel School's podcast, Change Leaders. A professor at the Arizona State University School of Social Work, Marsiglia is also director of the university’s Global Center for Applied Health Research (GCAHR), which exists to design, ...

Margaret M. Kennedy, LISW-S, RSW (MSSA ’78), was the special guest on a recent episode of the Mandel School's podcast, Change Leaders. As a leader in social work, she lives by these words from Confucius: “To see what is right and not do it is want of courage, or of principle.” From the start, Kenne...

Since its establishment in the 1980s, Women’s History Month has taken place each March to encourage the study, observance and celebration of women’s vital impacts on American history. Such impacts are evident throughout Case Western Reserve’s past and present, from the university’s origins as the ...

Every year on the third Tuesday in March, the International Federation of Social Workers (IFSW) leads the celebration of World Social Work Day, when social workers worldwide stand together to advance a common message for social justice, human rights and social development globally, all through the p...

The Mandel School is pleased to announce Hannah Griswold (MNO ‘93) as its 2024 diploma ceremony speaker. A strategic development consultant with over 20 years of experience in fundraising and brand creation, Griswold founded the New York Public Library’s Young Lions and made it her unlikely mission...

Vice Chair Julie Gerberding (WRC ’77, MED ’81), first woman director of the CDC, to become chair in June 2025

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Soon after walking down the aisle to receive his MBA diploma from the Weatherhead School of Management in 2006, Douglas Younger III was finding ways to improve the lives of others. “Inspiring people is something that is part of my DNA,” said Younger. He used this passion to start his own business,...