News: social justice
3 Questions for…Adjunct Professor Ife Lenard
Adjunct Professor Ife Lenard, who earned an MSW from our School in 1999 and an EdM in Education Leadership from…
3 Questions for…Assistant Professor Rob Hartley
Assistant Professor Robert Paul Hartley, who joined the School of Social Work in 2019, is an applied microeconomist working in…
Action Lab, Now a Center, Welcomes Its First Executive Director, Dr. Ovita Williams
Created in Spring 2020, the CSSW Action Lab for Social Justice quickly reaches two significant milestones. Dean Melissa Begg recently…
The Power of Collective Action
Illustration by Julie Winegard Coronavirus has exposed many fault lines in our society. We need to work together to enact…
Alumna Ada Deer Receives Martin Luther King, Jr. Award
The 1961 MSW graduate and the first woman to serve as Assistant Secretary for Indian Affairs was honored in her…
Meet the School’s 2019–2020 CSWE Master’s Minority Fellows
Today’s social justice-oriented MSW students are tomorrow’s culturally competent social work professionals. And now six of ours are receiving additional…
One Hundred Days In…A Message from the New Dean
Dean Begg with alumni who attended the Communities of Color Networking event on September 16. Left to right, back: James…
MSW Students Join in Campaign to Make Wikipedia More Inclusive
Columbia University graduate student Darold Cuba (OHMA’19) presenting at the School of Social Work Indigenous Peoples’ Day provided the background…
A Trip to Social Work’s Past, Guided by School Librarian Sophie Leveque
Communications writer Joshua Cole shares his time-travel adventure of last month, which took him to the sub-basement home of the…
Dean’s Statement on Pride and Stonewall 50
June 28 marks the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall uprising, which took place at Stonewall Inn in Greenwich Village. Though…