Boston University School of Social Work (BUSSW) celebrated its newest class of MSW and PhD graduates at the 2025 BUSSW Commencement Ceremony, May 15th. Graduating students from the online, off-campus and hybrid programs joined their Charles River classmates at the main Boston University campus for the big event, and loved ones came from far and […]
Boston University School of Social Work (BUSSW) is excited to announce that Dr. Noor Toraif, a 2023 PhD program alum, will rejoin BUSSW on July 1, 2025 as an assistant professor of macro practice. She returns to BUSSW from the University of Pennsylvania School of Social Policy and Practice where she has served as an […]
Kitty Dukakis, a 1996 graduate of BU School of Social Work’s (BUSSW) Master of Social Work program, died on March 21 from complications of dementia. The wife of Massachusetts governor and Democratic presidential nominee Michael Dukakis, she entered the public eye in the early 1970s and spent the next five decades advocating for gender equality, […]
The National Association of Social Work – Massachusetts (NASW-MA) magazine “Social Work Voice” recently featured Malaka Mims (MSW’15), a lecturer and alum of BU School of Social Work (BUSSW) in their member spotlight where she shares the reasons why she became a social worker. Mims is also the president of the Greater Boston Association of […]