News Archive
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Admiral Michael Mullen, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, spoke bluntly about the strains placed on American soldiers and their families while the nation continues its ninth year of war in the Middle East during a recent town hall event hosted by the USC School of Social Work.
On June 11, Mullen addressed a crowd of more than 450 students, faculty and community members—including many active-duty personnel and veterans—assembled at the university's Town and Gown.
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The USC School of Social Work has partnered with USC Libraries to publish the university's inaugural collection of Outstanding Academic Papers by Students (OAPS) as part of a joint initiative to recognize excellence in academic writing and research and to preserve exemplary works for perpetual access.
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For 15 years during the 1960s and 70s, Frances Wu helped delinquent children work through personal problems. But she later discovered another group in need.
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The most wrenching phone call Connie Rice received during her decades as a civil-rights activist and high-powered trial lawyer came from the manager of a Watts convenience store at 2 a.m.
There'd been yet another gang shooting at the infamous Jordan Downs housing project, and the police had rounded up all the adults in a single family. But the authorities had left a 7-year-old boy, Tommy, and his baby brother behind. No one called a social worker.
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After returning from a particularly violent tour of duty in Iraq, Col. David Sutherland caught himself scanning the lakes and canals scattered across his Texas town.
The U.S. Army brigade commander wasn't admiring the scenery. He was on alert for the bodies of murder victims, like the many he'd pulled out of similar looking waterways on the other side of the world.
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Leading scholars from China, Taiwan, Hong Kong and the United States convened May 6-7 on the USC campus to discuss the changing role of filial relationships in elder care as a result of the one-child policy's effects on family structure in China.
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The School of Social Work at the University of Southern California has been awarded two new grants totaling $6.5 million for its military social work and veteran services teaching and research activities.
In less than two years, the program has now attracted almost $10 million in funding, with Congresswoman Lucille Roybal-Allard playing a key role in facilitating the initiative's growth and pointing out the need for comprehensive services for military members, veterans and their families.
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For Master of Social Work student Argelis Ortiz, graduation marks the culmination of hard work not only in the classroom but in the field as well. As part of his internship with the California Youth Connection, Ortiz helped organize the group's first art exhibit and fundraiser.
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The USC School of Social Work will expand its international footprint this summer with the addition of new global immersion programs in Western Europe and India.
Professors Devon Brooks and Kim Goodman will lead 27 students through three of Europe's most socially progressive cities – Strasbourg, France; Brussels, Belgium; and Amsterdam, Netherlands. "Global Perspectives on Sexual Orientation, Gender and Ethnicity in Europe" will explore the steps these countries are taking to tackle bigotry and oppression from both political and social points of view.
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Staffers were flipping through a fat stack of applications for the USC School of Social Work's growing Network of Korean American Leaders (NetKAL) fellowship program when they noticed all the out-of-town postmarks.
Born as an initiative of the school's Center for Asian-Pacific Leadership in 2006, NetKAL was intended to connect leaders of Korean heritage (second generation) for leadership training, networking and community-empowerment projects in Los Angeles as a fresh approach to addressing the leadership gap in the largest ethnic Korean community outside of Korea.