This year, 110 years after its founding, International Women’s Day announced the theme of Press for Progress, with the goal…
Author: John Bohn
Juvenile Justice Expert Vincent Schiraldi Joins School of Social Work as Senior Research Scientist
Youth justice reformer and innovator Vincent Schiraldi will be joining the Columbia School of Social Work in October 2017 as a…
A Wish and a Dream to See More Social Work Students Make Waves, Move Mountains, Change Lives
This article first appeared in the Planned Giving section of Giving to Columbia. It is reposted here with the Office…
Can an Online Intervention Prevent Drug Use Among Teen Girls? New Study Says Yes
Adolescent drug use may be a universal problem, but its gendered aspects have been chronically under-explored. For more than a…
Assistant Professor Desmond Patton Receives Harvard University’s Berkman Klein Center Fellowship
Columbia School of Social Work Assistant Professor Desmond U. Patton has been named as a 2017–18 fellow at the Berkman…
Statement from Interim Dean Irwin Garfinkel on Fighting White Supremacy
Many of us watched in outrage and horror as white supremacist and Nazi demonstrators marched on Charlottesville, VA, and took…
Telling the Stories of the People of African Descent
by Nick Ogutu (MSW’17) Human Rights Activist The United Nations General Assembly, through resolution 68/237, proclaimed 2015 to 2024 to…