Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel
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Mandel School honors 2025 Alumni Award winners during Homecoming and Reunion Weekend
As members of the ӰƵ community celebrated Homecoming and Reunion Weekend 2025, the Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences took time for a more personalized celebration: recognizing exemplary alumni. More than 60 Mandel School alumni…
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January 26, 2024
Cleveland Jewish News: Dexter Voisin, dean of the Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences, discussed a new $5 million grant to the school from the Mandel Foundation to support scholarships for promising master’s degree students.
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January 26, 2024
Daniel J. Flannery, the Dr. Semi J. and Ruth Begun Professor and director of the Begun Center for Violence Prevention Research and Education, was elected a 2024 Fellow of the American Academy of Social Work and Social Welfare (AASWSW), a distinguished honorific society of prominent scholars, top…
January 26, 2024
Megan Holmes, professor and co-director of the Center on Trauma and Adversity at the Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences, was elected a 2024 Fellow of the Society for Social Work and Research (SSWR). SSWR Fellows are members of the society who have served with…
January 25, 2024
Inside this edition: Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Foundation awards $5 million to support scholarships Upcoming Events Student Spotlight Continuing Education Opportunities In Memoriam Employment and Career Opportunities Read the January 2024 Inside the Action Newsletter.
January 24, 2024
Joseph Paul Knable is a master of multiple realms—currently pursuing his fourth graduate degree at the Mandel School, he is also an adept videographer and a medically retired U.S. Air Force officer. Read on to learn his story. Answers have been lightly edited for clarity and length. Class…
January 22, 2024
Funds to reduce financial burden for master’s degree students The Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Foundation has awarded the Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences at ӰƵ a five-year, $5 million grant to support scholarships for promising…
January 22, 2024
Funds to reduce financial burden for master’s degree students at the Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences
January 19, 2024
Three researchers at the Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences recently contributed to the new book Social Work, White Supremacy, and Racial Justice: Reckoning with Our History, Interrogating Our Present, Reimagining Our Future, edited by Laura Abrams, et al. and…
January 19, 2024
Three researchers at the Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences recently contributed to the new book Social Work, White Supremacy, and Racial Justice: Reckoning with Our History, Interrogating Our Present, Reimagining Our Future, edited by Laura Abrams, et al. and…
January 18, 2024
WEWS: Daniel Flannery, director of the Begun Center for Violence Prevention, Research and Education, discussed the grim statistics of children and teenagers killed by gun violence. “I think we’re beyond a blip,” he said. “I think it’s a trend. I think what’s different today is this feeling that gun…