Congratulations to PhD student Evelyn Coker who was recognized with the Initiative for Cross-Institutional Student Collaboration award by the Group for the Advancement of Doctoral Education (GADE) in Social Work. The project, Count on Me: An Exploration of the Factors that Shape Perceptions of Social Support Among Black Women in Social Work Research Doctoral Programs, will study …
The Part-Time MSW Program allows students who are not able to pursue full-time study to work towards a master’s degree on a structured, time-extended basis with classes delivered in a hybrid manner. Some courses are designed as blended courses with a mix of online learning and in-person sessions, while others are taught as online courses. …
Assistant Professor Jessica Pac and colleagues, including Vilas Distinguished Achievement Professor Lonnie Berger, received the Frank R. Breul Memorial Prize for their paper “The Effects of Child Poverty Reductions on Child Protective Services Involvement.” Along with Sophie Collyer, Kirk O’Brien, Elizabeth Parker, Peter Pecora, Whitney Rostad, Jane Waldfogel, and Christopher Wimer, Pac and Berger’s study used simulation methods to project the reduction in …
We are pleased to announce that the Sandra Rosenbaum School of Social Work’s Board of Visitors has named Leslie Ann Howard as our 2024 Distinguished Alumni Award recipient. Leslie was President and CEO of the United Way of Dane County for 26 years and then served as a Senior Advisor to the CEO of United …
After working in the restaurant industry for more than 20 years, Michael Moody returned to UW–Madison to complete his undergraduate degree. By chance, he took Social Work Professor Marah Curtis’s class on social policy, and, as he explains, “her approach to systems and social policy blew me away!” Motivated to pursue social work and, “looking …
For most of her career, Sandra McCormick developed programs to improve the health, human services, and quality of life for many citizens of Russia, the Ukraine, and numerous other countries. While serving in a leadership role at La Crosse, Wisconsin’s Gundersen Health System in the early 1990’s, she led local efforts to build a partnership …
The Part-Time MSW Program allows students who are not able to pursue full-time study to work towards a master’s degree on a structured, time-extended basis with classes delivered in a hybrid manner. Some courses are designed as blended courses with a mix of online learning and in-person sessions, while others are taught as online courses. …
New research by two social work faculty demonstrates that 2021 Child Tax Credit (CTC) expansion did not have a major negative impact on the employment rate of caregivers who were eligible to receive the benefit. Assistant Professor Jessica Pac and Vilas Distinguished Achievement Professor Lonnie Berger demonstrated that the CTC expansion was associated with a …