Professor Rob Hudson delivered the keynote address at the Benjamin Rose Institute in Cleveland, where the Institute’s research center was being named in honor of Sydney Katz, MD. Through his development of the activities-of-daily-living scale for assessing need for chronic care services, Dr. Katz revolutionized the long-term care field. In his September 28 presentation, Hudson […]
BUSSW alumnae Jackie Jenkins-Scott (’73) and Dennie Butler-MacKay (’89) have been appointed to positions with Massachusetts Governor Deval Patrick’s Commonwealth Readiness Project to improve public education. Jenkins-Scott, who is President of Wheelock College, is a Co-Chair of the Project’s Leadership Council and Butler-MacKay, President and CEO of Leaders of Tomorrow, Inc., has been appointed to […]
The Boston University School of Social Work is pleased to announce its first Social Welfare Analysis Colloquium of the 2007/2008 academic year on Thursday, September 20, from 3 to 4:30 p.m. The colloquium–The Organizational Culture, Staff Practices, and Social Capital in Transitional Housing Programs for the Homeless in Los Angeles and Tokyo–will be presented by […]
The School of Social Work welcomes three visiting scholars for the 2007/08 academic year: Dr. Rachel Dekel Rachel Dekel is a social worker and a faculty member at the School of Social Work at Bar-Ilan University in Israel. Throughout the last decade she has been studying and working in the area of coping with traumatic […]