News Archive
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Barbara Jury, ’50, has seen some radical changes in nursing since she started working in the profession in the 1950s.
Glass syringes are now plastic and disposable. Measuring a patient’s vitals is now done by computer.
“Who knows where nursing will go in time,” Jury said. “But you still have to remember it’s going to come down to a nurse reinforcing the care every day.”
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In today’s tech age, growing up without access to a computer and the Internet is a major disadvantage.
For most adolescents, it’s not an issue; 90 percent of teens in the United States have a computer in their home. However, it’s a different story for youth in foster care.
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A typical nightmare scenario goes something like this: Robots first replace autoworkers on the assembly line. Then they move into white-collar jobs, writing articles, drafting legal documents and reading X-rays. Finally, the robots, growing ever smarter through machine learning and Big Data, displace even the most highly trained workers. The result: Unemployment rates skyrocket and the economy craters.
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USC and the Cohen Veterans Network will open a free mental health clinic in Los Angeles to help veterans and their families make the transition to civilian life.
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One-fourth of all online comments at the end of news articles about sexual assault and rape include victim-blaming statements, new research out of the University of Southern California shows.
The study examined 52 articles and found that only one did not contain comments offering support for the accused perpetrator, the study said. Victim-blaming statements appeared in 1,097 of the 4,239 comments ― or just over 25 percent of them.
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Alumna Suzanne Dworak-Peck, who has pioneered modern social work by elevating the profession on a global scale through policy, advocacy and the media, has assumed the role of chair of the USC School of Social Work’s Board of Councilors.
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When USC President C. L. Max Nikias gave the USC School of Social Work a goal of $75 million as part of the $6 billion Campaign for the University of Southern California, Dean Marilyn Flynn initially thought it might be a good time for her to retire. “Then I thought, what if we actually did it?” she said. “Wouldn’t that be something!”
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They crowd onto the roofs of trains and buses. They cross miles of open desert in the blistering sun. They face robbery, rape and violence.
It’s a dangerous and traumatic journey for many unaccompanied children and adolescents heading north from Central America toward countries like Mexico and the United States. But it’s a risk they are willing to take to escape one of the world’s deadliest regions.
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At the beginning of June I attended the second Policy Briefing to End Youth Homelessness at the White House, co-sponsored by True Colors Fund. I can not speak for everyone who attended the event, but for me the highlight of the day was hearing a panel of youth speak about their experiences struggling to overcome homelessness. As one young man put it, “nobody chooses being homeless.” And I think that is the first thing that people need to understand about youth homelessness. These young people do not want to be on the streets.
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While all our field placements offer the chance for our Master of Social Work students to engage in real-world client services, sometimes those opportunities collide with something larger.