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5 questions with… Sharon Milligan, Mandel School faculty member who helped bring an interactive civil rights history exhibit to life
Upon visiting the Maltz Museum of Jewish Heritage to explore the new interactive exhibit featuring local activist and civil rights leader Rev. Dr. Otis Moss Jr., you might not realize how the exhibit is connected to Case Western Reserve University. But this connection helped facilitate one of the e...
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Spartan Showcase: Jaylin Crumb
Jaylin Crumb is nearing the completion of her Master of Social Work degree from Case Western Reserve University—but she’s never stepped foot on campus. In fact, she’s never even been to Cleveland. On track to graduate in August from the Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel School of Applied Social Scien...
Mandel School applying data science to help nonprofit better serve low-income residents
Analysis from the school’s Partnership for Evaluation, Research and Implementation aims to assist HFLA of Northeast Ohio in enhancing lending practices When HFLA of Northeast Ohio began providing interest-free loans to low- to moderate-income residents almost 120 years ago, the lending institution ...
Four out of five rentals have yet to comply as Cleveland’s lead-safe law enters next chapter
cleveland.com (subscription required): Robert Fischer, associate professor at the Mandel School and co-director of the school’s Center on Urban Poverty and Community Development, talked about the City of Cleveland’s efforts to proactively fight child lead-poisoning, noting that “as time passes, we’r...
Mandel School PhD student Braveheart Gillani co-authors paper with School of Medicine professor
Mandel School doctoral student Braveheart Gillani and Peter Hovmand, the Pamela B. Davis Professor of Medicine, co-authored an article published in Systems Research and Behavioral Science. Their article is titled “Ageing among Black and non-Hispanic White older adults: A community-based system dyna...
Reading between the lines of Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine's 2023 State of the State
WKYC: Robert Fischer, associate professor at the Mandel School and co-director of the school’s Center on Urban Poverty and Community Development, explained the difference between a tax credit and a tax deduction, the latter of which was proposed by Gov. Mike DeWine in his annual State of the State a...
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5 questions with… Emmanuelle Iskandar, a Mandel School student making a career change
Emmanuelle Iskandar completed her bachelor’s degree in food engineering in Lebanon on Aug. 4, 2020—the day after the devastating port explosion in Beirut. Between the COVID-19 pandemic and the economic crisis the explosion had caused, it was challenging for freshly graduated students like Iskandar t...
Salvation Army of Greater Cleveland launches 3 new preschools to address childcare crisis
WEWS: Robert Fischer, associate professor at the Mandel School and co-director of the school’s Center on Urban Poverty and Community Development, discussed the struggles parents face finding quality schools and daycares that are also affordable. Read the article...
Student Spotlight: Erika Kura
Class Year: 2024 Degree Program: Dual Degree Master of Social Work and Master of Public Health Concentrations: Community Practice for Social Change (MSW) and Health Promotion and Disease Prevention (MPH) When Erika Kura started volunteering at the Cleveland Rape Crisis Center, she was already a b...
For the Children: Establishing a More Effective Behavioral Health Program for Ohio Families
Some Ohio parents whose children have critical behavioral-health needs faced an agonizing decision in recent years: whether to give up custody of their children to secure care in a live-in treatment center they simply couldn’t afford. It was a heartbreaking reality Ohio officials wanted to remedy a...