Social Work News
Three for One
Three members of the Falk College family will be honored at the One University Awards ceremony April 19: Katherine McDonald (Faculty Excellence and Scholarly Distinction Award), and Ken Marfilius and Sudha Raj (Continuing Excellence category for the Meredith Professorship Program awards)...
Industry Perspective
As the newest members of the Falk College Advisory Board, Andrea Massop Ramos and Tatiana Warren will bring insights from their professional disciplines, forge corporate and community partnerships, and “add valuable contributions in other influential ways,” says Dean Jeremy Jordan...
Exploring Careers
The third “Falk in D.C. Career Exploration” trip this past fall to Baltimore and Washington, D.C., had a new twist: For the first time, the trip included separate tracks for health/human services and sport-related careers as the 27 students who participated represented all Falk College programs ...
Moving Forward, Looking Back
This year's Dan and Mary Lou Rubenstein Social Justice Awards program honored La Joven Guardia del Teatro Latino founder José Miguel Hernández Hurtado and Falk College School of Social Work Professor Eric Kingson and remembered Social Work Professor Emeritus Alejandro Garcia ...
Desire to Give Back
As a U.S. Army veteran, School of Social Work graduate student Benetta Dousuah is committed to supporting service members and veterans dealing with mental health challenges. “Our mental health is not taken as seriously as it should be,” she says. Read more about Benetta in this SU News story ...
Supporting Veterans
Ken Marfilius, a U.S. Air Force veteran and assistant dean of online education at Falk College, and Nick Amstrong, a U.S. Army veteran and head of public sector at Cabana, created a partnership that will tap into the combined strengths of both organizations to benefit military veterans and Social Work students ...
Special Delivery
On Feb. 13, Social Workers United students delivered Valentine’s Day cards, heart-shaped donuts, and balloons to the residents of Brookdale Summerfield Senior Living. “We were happy to do something special for a group of people who did not expect to be celebrated,” says SWU president Mary Claytor...
New Dean for Research
Katherine McDonald, Ph.D., has been named Senior Associate Dean for Research and Administration in Falk College, where under her leadership with the Office of Research Development “the College has experienced steady growth in research activity by every measure,” says Dean Jeremy Jordan ...
‘Same Playing Field’
The Sobczak Family Student Support Endowed Fund was created to help Falk College students who are experiencing financial hardship. “This (fund) is to help set them up to be as successful as their peers, and that way everybody is on the same playing field as much as they can be,” Dee Anna Sobczak says ...
Supporting Student Experience
Megan Myers, who has been named Falk College’s new Assistant Dean of Advancement, joined the Falk advancement team in 2018 and has a history of creating partnerships that have grown the College and created new opportunities for students and faculty ...