Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences (MSASS)

11235 Bellflower Road
Phone 368-2290; Fax 368-8670
Darlyne Bailey, Ph.D., Dean

MISSION STATEMENT

MSASS provides and integrates professional social work education, research, and service to promote social justice and empowerment in communities through social work practice locally, nationally, and internationally.

A TRADITION OF SOCIAL WORK

Consistently ranked among the nation's foremost graduate schools of social work, MSASS counts among it s alumni many prominent educators, government officials, accomplished practitioners, researchers, and chief executives of national and regional agencies. Faculty achievements in professional organizations, research, and agency consultation further extend the school's reputation as an active participant in the advancement of social work practice.

MSASS believes that advanced practitioners are strategists of change, able to mobilize all the resources of the environment on behalf of their clients. To this end, MSASS remains firmly committed to leadership in advocacy, practice development, and community self-help.

MSASS is a place dedicated to understanding problems in order to solve problems. The school's dual mission combines leadership in knowledge building with leadership in community service and development. Both goals receive equal emphasis in our educational programs. MSASS offers a course of study leading to the Master of Science in Social Administration degree (M.S.S.A.), an advanced program for the Doctor of Philosophy in social welfare, several joint programs, and continuing education for professionals. The Master of Science in Social Administration (M.S.S.A.) is a social work master's degree, accredited by the Council on Social Work Education.

Master's students pursue their degree through a variety of study options, including a traditional two-year course of full-time study, individualized part-time programs, and specialized study options for employed social workers.

Since its founding in 1916 as one of the nation's first university-affiliated schools of social work, MSASS has been an innovator in professional education. The school's long-standing dedication to community action has brought more than 300 organizations into a field education program of unusual scope. In every type of local and regional organization, students develop skills in direct practice, research, management, fund raising and community development. Continuing interests in international social work, policy analysis and occupational social work add breadth to a curriculum designed to offer students every opportunity for individualized and interdisciplinary study.

The Mandel Center for Nonprofit Organizations offers advanced education in management and governance for leaders from every type of service organization throughout the United States. Its programs combine the perspectives of social science, law, and management for master's students and Ph.D. fellows wishing to pursue careers in the nonprofit sector.

An MSASS education is more than preparation. It is an opportunity to join a national network of scholars and practitioners who are shaping the course of social work in communities throughout the United States.

ADMINISTRATION

Darlyne Bailey, Ph.D., ACSW, LISW (Case Western University)

Dean

Victor K. Groza, Ph.D., LISW (University of Oklahoma)

Associate Dean

Karen M. Kaye, Ph.D. (Bowling Green State University)

Assistant Dean for Student Administration and Academic Support

Mark I. Singer, Ph.D. (Case Western Reserve University)

Chairperson, Doctoral Program

Deborah Jacobson, D.S.W., (Tulane University,)

Director, Intensive Semester Program

Martha Gibbons, B.A. (Antioch College)

Director, Development for Major Gifts, Foundations and Corporations

Pamela R. Carson, B.S. (Kent State University)

Director, Development for Alumni and Allied Constituencies

Arthur S. Biagianti, M.S.S.A., M.S.L.S. (Case Western Reserve University)

Director, Library

Nancy L. Graf, M.S.W., LISW (Boston College)

Director, Continuing Education

Gerald A. Strom, M.S.W., LISW (Howard University)

Director, Field Education

Sherry Jones, M.B.A.(Case Western Reserve University)

Director of Budgets and Administration

Ann E. Toomey, M.S.S.A. (Case Western Reserve University)

Director, Recruitment and Admissions

Kathleen Bates, B.A. (Cleveland State University)

Director, Financial Aid

Debra Fields

Registrar

FACULTY

Sarah Andrews, M.S.S.A. (Case Western Reserve University)

Visiting Professor

Albert J. Abramovitz, Ph.D. (Case Western Reserve University)

Community Service Professor

Darlyne Bailey, Ph.D. (Case Western Reserve University)

Associate Professor

David E. Biegel, Ph.D. (University of Maryland)

Henry L. Zucker Professor of Social Work Practice

Craig Boitel, M.S.S.A.(Case Western Reserve University)

Instructor

Pranab Chatterjee, Ph.D. (University of Chicago)

Professor

Claudia J. Coulton, Ph.D. (Case Western Reserve University)

Lillian F. Harris Professor

Kathleen J. Farkas, Ph.D. (Case Western Reserve University)

Associate Professor

Elizabeth Farmer, Ph.D. (Duke University)

Assistant Professor

Wallace J. Gingerich, Ph.D. (Washington University)

Professor

Victor K. Groza, Ph.D. (University of Oklahoma)

Associate Professor

Shenyang Guo, Ph.D. (University of Michigan)

Instructor

Deborah Jacobson, Ph.D. (Tulane University)

Instructor

Merl C. Hokenstad, Jr., Ph.D. (Brandeis University)

Ralph S. and Dorothy P. Schmitt Professor

Alice K. Johnson, Ph.D. (Washington University)

Associate Professor

Lenore A. Kola, Ph.D. (Boston University)

Associate Professor

Baila Miller, Ph.D. (University of Illinois at Chicago)

Professor

David Miller, Ph.D. ( University of Pittsburgh

Assistant Professor

Sharon E. Milligan, Ph.D. (University of Pittsburgh)

Associate Professor

Arthur J. Naparstek, Ph.D. (Brandeis University)

Grace Longwell Coyle Professor of Social Work

Regina Nixon, Ph.D. (Howard University)

Instructor

Marvin L. Rosenberg, D.S.W. (Western Reserve University)

Associate Professor

Mark I. Singer, Ph.D. (Case Western Reserve University)

Professor

Gerald Strom, M.S.W. (Howard University)

Instructor

Ilga B. Svechs, Ph.D. (Union College)

Associate Professor

Elizabeth M. Tracy, Ph.D. (University of Washington)

Associate Professor

Kathleen Wells, Ph.D. (University of Colorado)

Associate Professor

Zoe Breen Wood, M.S.W. (Virginia Commonwealth University)

Instructor

John A. Yankey, Ph.D. (University of Pittsburgh)

Leonard F. Mayo Professor

Dennis R. Young, Ph.D. (Stanford University)

Professor

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