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Assistant Professor Marah Curtis Named Honored...
Monday, December 03, 2012

Dr. Marah A. Curtis

New social work assistant professor Marah Curtis has been recognized as an Honored Instructor by students living in University Housing. The Honored Instructor program allows students to nominate instructors that are especially challenging, inspiring, or effective teachers.

 

In 206: Introduction to Social Policy, a student indicated that Dr. Curtis' "knowledge and passion in lecture makes me want to rise to her level of understanding of social policy in our country. [Dr. Curtis'] course has been an eye-opening experience for me, making me more politically and socially aware and involved than I have been in my life."

 

Honored Instructors will be celebrated at a reception at the end of the semester. For more information on the Honored Instructor Program, please see the University Housing website.
Studer Wins Doctoral Program Teaching Assistant...
Tuesday, November 27, 2012

Doctoral student Lynette Studer was recently awarded the School of Social Work Doctoral Program Teaching Assistant Excellence Award, an annual award recognizing talent and dedication in teaching.

 

Studer has worked as a teaching assistant in a wide array of classes, at many levels and in a wide range of sizes, including:  Homelessness: A Service Learning Course; Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender Persons and Social Welfare; Introduction to the Field of Social Work; and Race & Ethnicity in Social Work Practice.

 

Studer’s approach to teaching was shaped by many influences, including previous instructors she encountered along her educational journey, and her fifteen-year experience as a social work clinician.  Studer has been an active member in the teaching community on campus, and continues to develop her teaching skills through the Delta Internship Program, a campus program that focuses on teaching-as-research.  Through her work with the Delta Program, Studer’s passion has grown for understanding how difficult subjects like cultural competency are taught to future social workers. 

 

The greatest reward for Studer is the dream of a dedicated teacher in social welfare:  Igniting a passion for social work in her students, and helping her students to discover the “fit” of social work as a career...
Breaking the Cycle of Domestic Violence
Wednesday, November 14, 2012

Dr. Darald Hanusa, long-time Senior Lecturer at the School of Social Work and expert on treating perpetrators of domestic violence, was interviewed recently as part of a Channel 27 WKOW story on domestic violence. Part of the segment was filmed in Dr. Hanusa's Family Violence class at the School of Social Work.
Hurricane Sandy: How you can help
Friday, November 09, 2012

Wondering how you can assist the millions of people affected by Hurricane Sandy? 

Photo by NASA, from Getty Images

Here are some ways:

 
A Masterful Innovation: The Part-Time M.S.W....
Thursday, November 01, 2012

SteigerwaldThe state needed more well-trained social workers, so the College stepped forward to deliver a solution

 

Matt Steigerwald had an ambitious plan to advance his career, but he was not sure how, exactly, he was going to carry it out. Steigerwald, who graduated from the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee with a Bachelor of Social Work in 2007, already held a full-time position as a special-needs-adoption social worker. But he was well aware of the recent, widespread push state-wide for social workers to acquire additional training by obtaining master’s degrees.

 

Steigerwald was eager to take that next step, but there was just one problem. He did not have the necessary time for school. He had gotten married in 2007, had his first child a year later and was working to support his family... read the full story in the College of Letters & Science Annual Report.
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