Karla Goldman Quoted in Inside Higher Ed on the History of Elite Universities Limiting Jewish Student Enrollment
Professor Karla Goldman spoke with Inside Higher Ed about the report released by Stanford University uncovering its history of limiting Jewish student enrollments. The report comes at a time when colleges and universities across the country are excavating their pasts and working to publicly...
Six Michigan Social Work Students Named as 2022 CEW+ Scholars
Six School of Social Work students have received CEW+ awards:
MSW student Irma Maribel Andrade Guzman — Margaret Dow Towsley Scholar
MSW student Rossi Clark — Beatrice Kahn Scholar
MSW student Justine D’Souza — Margaret Dusseau Brevoot Scholar
MSW student Jennifer Harris — Susan Quackenbush...
School of Social Work’s Centennial Timeline Wins CASE Award
The School of Social Work’s marketing and web teams have won a Best of CASE District V Award for the School’s Centennial Timeline Project. The timeline depicts the School’s history from its origins to its current position as one of the world’s most prominent schools of social work. Initially...
Trina Shanks Appointed Black Administrators, Researchers, and Scholars Board President
Professor Trina Shanks has been appointed board president of the Black Administrators, Researchers, and Scholars (BARS) group. BARS was founded by the late Larry Davis, MSW '73 and PhD '77, to aid in the development and advancement of Black social work scholars, researchers and administrators...
Andy Grogan-Kaylor and Shawna Lee’s Research on the Link Between Gender Inequity and Child Abuse Featured in Michigan News
Professors Andy Grogan-Kaylor and Shawna Lee’s research on the relationship between gender inequity and child abuse is featured in Michigan News. Garret Pace, PhD ‘22, and Kaitlin Paxton Ward, PhD ‘22 are also co-authors on the study, which found that gender inequality at the adult level perpetuates...
“Hope is the Oxygen” — Michigan Social Work Hosts Darren Walker for Its Second Social Justice Changemaker Lecture
Earlier this month, the School of Social Work presented Darren Walker, president of the Ford Foundation, in the School’s second annual Social Justice Changemaker Lecture. The program, “Social Change in Action: How to be a change agent in a world that feels out of control,” featured a conversation in...
Progressive Values Shape Ayesha Ghazi Edwin’s Family Story
“Ann Arbor and the university welcomed us with open arms, and we fell in love with this diverse, inclusive community.” Lecturer and ENGAGE: DETROIT Program Manager Ayesha Ghazi Edwin’s family history is chronicled in a story on U-M’s Center for South Asian Studies website. The story describes how...
Luke Shaefer Discusses the Pandemic’s Dramatic Shift in Federal Child Spending in the New York Times
Professor Luke Shaefer was quoted in a New York Times article describing the short-term surge in federal per child spending during the pandemic. “In my career, I’ve never seen anything so dramatic as the shift in resources to families with kids during the pandemic,” said Shaefer “Now we have much...
Andy Grogan-Kaylor’s team wins Breakthrough Award at U-M’s Psych Tank Funding Competition
Andy Grogan-Kaylor’s team won a Breakthrough Award at the inaugural Psych Tank Funding Competition, hosted by the U-M’s Eisenberg Family Depression Center. The team came in second place, winning $75,000 for their project “Mental health care for ALL kids! What are we waiting for?”
Rebeccah Sokol Part of Inaugural Cohort at U-M Institute of Firearm Injury Prevention
Assistant Professor Rebeccah Sokol is part of the inaugural cohort of six new faculty members hired for U-M Institute of Firearm Injury Prevention to advance knowledge and identify solutions to the ongoing national epidemic. Sokol focuses her research on youth exposure to adversity, and on firearm...