Celebrating World Social Work Day
March 18, 2025Every year on the third Tuesday in March, the International Federation of Social Workers (IFSW) leads the celebration of World Social Work Day, when…
Transforming futures: $5M Mandel Foundation grant expands scholarships, boosts enrollment and supports workforce
March 13, 2025In January 2024, the Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Foundation awarded the Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences a five-year…
Are 66% of Cleveland’s adults ‘functionally illiterate’? Rob Fischer disagrees
March 12, 2025ideastream: Robert Fischer, the Grace Longwell Coyle Professor in Civil Society and director of the Center on Poverty and Community Development, said race…
Student Spotlight: Bernard Kwadwo Oteng
March 07, 2025Bernard Kwadwo Oteng has learned in his field placement that different people can have different perspectives on a particular issue/problem, and it's important to…Alumnus Scott D. Ryan (GRS ‘01) to deliver 2025 Mandel School diploma ceremony address
March 06, 2025The Mandel School is pleased to announce Scott D. Ryan (GRS ‘01) as its 2025 diploma ceremony speaker.
Begun Center research team evaluates how drug overdose deaths relate to urban census tracts
March 05, 2025A team of researchers from the Begun Center for Violence Prevention Research and Education conducted a study examining how drug overdose deaths correlate with…
Action magazine: Emotionally intelligent leadership
March 03, 2025Alumnus credits social work education for his success in businessAction magazine: Equity. Innovation. Transformation.
March 02, 2025These three core values drive the Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences. Read on to learn how faculty, students and alumni from the…
Action magazine: A fellowship and legacy of change leaders
March 01, 2025Aspiring social workers follow in the footsteps of civil rights leader and former professorAction magazine: Targeting trauma
February 28, 2025How the Center on Trauma and Adversity is pioneering new approaches that nurture healing and resilience—in classrooms, on campus and in communities across the…Dan Flannery highlights the need for tailored approaches to youth violence on NPR
February 27, 2025NPR: Daniel Flannery, the Dr. Semi J. and Ruth Begun Professor and director of the Begun Center for Violence Prevention Research and Education, highlighted…
Mark Joseph pens op-ed on how DEI’s demise offers a fresh approach to antiracism
February 26, 2025cleveland.com: Mark L.
Alumnus Richard Lewis Jones pens op-ed on need for social workers
February 26, 2025cleveland.com: Richard L. Jones (SAS '75; GRS '81, social welfare), Mandel School Visiting Committee member and social work pioneer, wrote an op-ed on the…
Kathy Farkas and Richard Romaniuk participate in international conference
February 25, 2025Associate Professor Emerita