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Larry Nackerud, professor, retired after over 26 years with the SSW. During his tenure at UGA, Nackerud served as associate and interim dean of the SSW and was chair of the Institutional Review Board in the UGA Office of Human Subjects for 10 years. Nackerud was active in the mentoring of PhD students, serving on 76 dissertation committees, 28 of which he chaired. Social work students in the MSW and PhD programs voted him Teacher of the Year repeatedly. Nackerud shares his thoughts on teaching at the SSW below. https://www.kudoboard.com/boards/QamSSOLJ#view
Teresa Payne, director of information technology services, retired in
December after 32 years at the university. She joined the School of Social Work in 1996 and oversaw the creation of the school’s first website and growth of internet and technology use in classrooms. UGA Today’s Campus Spotlight highlighted her commitment to assisting students and the community with technology. https://www.kudoboard.com/boards/LriMjWKJ#view
Departures Mumbi Mwaura, MSW/MPH ‘14, graduate programs recruitment coordinator, accepted a position as a program associate for curriculum resources with the Council for Social Work Education. For four years Mwaura led student recruitment activities as well as developed and implemented continuing education units, served on the school’s external affairs committee and as interim coordinator for the MSW/ MPH program. DeVin S. Taylor, development coordinator, joined Northwestern University Pritzker School of Law as an associate director, Major Gifts.
Larry Nackerud on Teaching ...
“I have enjoyed creating/developing some interesting in-classroom and out-of-classroom excesses/activities for students, like the tour of the ‘chicken killing plant in Athens’; hayrides with students through the Oconee Hills Cemetery; having students participate in the Great Backyard Bird Count sponsored by the Audubon Society and the Ornithological Lab at Cornell University as a great way to learn about ‘time and place’ sampling, which is how social workers try to ‘count’ another elusive population, persons who are homeless; the use of Auction Theory as a means to exemplify the policy analysis model of Game Theory; and teaching students to just say the word ‘empirical’ at any time, particularly when another faculty member is around. My claim was that the term was a major part of the ‘culture’ of the School of Social Work and the University of Georgia and students needed to understand/know the ‘culture of higher education’ if they were to be successful. I have actually had former students yell out the term at me when I see them around Athens.”
Empirical!
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