News Archive
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Chants of “justice” and “freedom” rang out in front of Bovard Auditorium the morning of Feb. 16 as some USC School of Social Work students, failing to provide two forms of identification after being randomly asked to do so, were put into a special holding area.
As other students, and even staff and faculty, looked on in confusion, they wondered, would they be able to participate in All School Day? Shouldn’t they be able to?
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Ron Avi Astor, the Richard M. and Ann L. Thor Professor of Urban Social Development at the USC School of Social Work and professor at the USC Rossier School of Education, was selected to become a 2012 fellow of the American Educational Research Association (AERA).
The prestigious title has been given to fewer than 500 education scholars nationwide. AERA, the oldest and largest educational research association in the world, established the Fellows Program in 2007 to honor education researchers with substantial research accomplishments.
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Penelope Trickett, a professor at the USC School of Social Work, has received the 2012 Excellence in Research Award from the Society for Social Work and Research for her work measuring cortisol levels over two decades among victims of sexual abuse.
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Virtual Academic Center student Eric Hollen was tending his horse farm about 10 years ago when his tractor tipped over, pinning him. He spent five months in a hospital being treated for the dislocation of his third and fourth lumbar vertebrae, a ruptured diaphragm, a broken pelvis and a torn aorta.
Hollen said an important step in his healing process was finding a way to move past his injuries so he could get on with his life.
“I was able to shift paradigms ⎯from that of disability to ability ⎯through sport and then through academics,” he said.
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A federal agency that highlights groundbreaking health care research has featured USC School of Social Work professor Kathleen Ell’s innovative efforts to improve depression treatment among low-income Hispanics with diabetes.
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Iris Chi, a professor at the USC School of Social Work, was named honorary associate director of the Sau Po Centre on Ageing at the University of Hong Kong in recognition of her career accomplishments and commitment to improving the quality of life and welfare of the elderly.
Launched in 1999 while Chi was a professor at the University of Hong Kong, the centre focuses on bolstering the lives of older people through research, education and policy advocacy. Chi served as director for the centre from 1999 to 2004 and has been a senior advisor since 2009.
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The University of Southern California (USC) Rossier School of Education (MAT@USC) and USC School of Social Work (Online MSW) web-based graduate programs have released a new mobile application that allows students to access multi-media course content and intra-school social networks, all from their Android smart phone. The launch follows the introduction of a similar iPhone/iPad app on iTunes last year.
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When a paperwork mix-up caused Kate Barlow to miss her chance to enroll in the social work master’s program at USC, she had two options. She could wait around for another year, or she could start taking classes through the Virtual Academic Center. She chose the VAC.
The web-based master’s program launched in October 2010 by the USC School of Social Work has experienced success, expanding throughout much of the United States and enrolling nearly 1,000 students (compared to 1,200 on-campus students scattered across four Southern California locations).
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For a profession whose central focus is on interacting and working with people, the idea that some social workers need a little push to join an association just for them is ironic, to say the least.
But that’s exactly what USC School of Social Work master’s student Rachel Gardner is doing as co-chair of the New Professionals Network, which is part of the National Association of Social Workers California Chapter.
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Maryalice Jordan-Marsh, an associate professor at the USC School of Social Work, has received the American Journal of Nursing’s Book of the Year Award for Health Technology Literacy: A Transdisciplinary Framework for Consumer-Oriented Practice.
The award honors excellence in book publishing in the nursing field. Jordan-Marsh received her award in the category of information technology, which recognizes a book that explores nursing’s role and the use of electronic media, computer systems, social media or online media.