Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel
School of Applied Social Sciences
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Transforming futures: $5M Mandel Foundation grant expands scholarships, boosts enrollment and supports workforce
In January 2024, the Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Foundation awarded the Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences a five-year, $5 million grant to support scholarships for promising master’s degree students, known as “Mandel Scholars.” “It is rare to receive such a…
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May 31, 2018
Community-based service professionals think that helping clients navigate a financial crisis—such as foreclosure—is a good idea.
We know that because researchers from the Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences at ӰƵ asked them.
In a qualitativ...
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May 21, 2018
The International Conference on Conflict Resolution Education (CRE) is an opportunity to engage in interdisciplinary collaboration and research. Presentations will focus on innovations in the field that are making broad impacts in local, state, national and international communities, centered on the...
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May 14, 2018
With commencement just a few days away, many on campus are preparing to walk across the stage and start the next phase of their life after years of hard work. We talked with graduating students from each school to see how they got here, what their time was like on campus and where they’re heading ne...
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April 04, 2018
Between 3 and 8 percent of children in the United States identify as LGBTQ, according to the Williams Institute at UCLA. But for children in foster care, the number is as high as 19 percent.
Children with diverse sexual orientations and gender identities are at greater risk for issues such as physi...
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April 02, 2018
What leads to risky sexual behavior in adolescence seems to vary by gender, according to new research from ӰƵ.
For boys, there’s a direct connection to child abuse. For girls, marijuana use appears to be a risk factor.
“In social science research there are so many fact...
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March 30, 2018
The Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences, in partnership with John Carroll University, Cuyahoga Community College and Cleveland State University, will host the 12th International Conference on Conflict Resolution Education, “Bridging the Divide in Polarized Societies,” fr...
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March 27, 2018
With unprecedented access to data from Cuyahoga County Prosecutor’s Office, ӰƵ researchers gaining better understanding of sexual offenders
New research from ӰƵ has experts re-thinking what was previously believed about the patterns of serial...
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March 23, 2018
Jennifer Madden, adjunct faculty at the Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences, had her research on successful affordable housing cross-sector collaboration profiled by the Urban Institute in How Housing Matters.
How Housing Matters is an online resource featuring research...
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March 23, 2018
Add one more entry into ӰƵ’s list of efforts that U.S. News & World Report rates among the nation’s top 10.
Along with degree programs in nursing and social work that achieved lofty positions in the rankings released this week, the law school’s Health Law specialty moved up four p...
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March 14, 2018
Editor's note: This article has been updated to reflect a change in location.
The Office for Inclusion, Diversity and Equal Opportunity Power of Diversity Lecture Series continues with a talk by Mark L. Joseph, the Leona Bevis/Marguerite Haynam Associate Professor in Community Development and found...