The 2024 Alumni Association Awards, hosted by Boston University School of Social Work (BUSSW) and the school’s Alumni Association Board, took place on Saturday, September 28, 2024, at the BU Photonics Center. Watch the recording to relive our celebration of the 2024 award winners and hear from featured speaker Marylou Sudders (SSW’78), former Mass. Secretary […]
Education opens doors to better career prospects, higher income, and personal development, allowing people to break cycles of poverty and inequality. However, many students from low-income backgrounds rely on financial aid to achieve their education goals and they are more vulnerable to losing that aid for a wider variety of reasons than students from different […]
Boston University School of Social Work (BUSSW) honored five members of the school community on Saturday, September 28 at the 2024 Alumni Association Awards, held during BU Alumni Weekend at the BU Photonics Center. The event featured guest speaker Marylou Sudders (SSW’78), former Mass. secretary of Health and Human Services and chair of BUSSW’s Dean’s […]
Reggie Harris (SSW’15), a BU School of Social Work (BUSSW) alum and former Cincinnati city council member, has taken a new role as deputy assistant secretary of economic development at the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD). In his statement announcing his departure from city council, Harris emphasized his ongoing commitment to public […]