FEATURES
12 FACULTY
12 Recent Faculty Publications 13 Social Work Innovates with Business 14 Accolades: Faculty Honors & Awards
15 HAPPENINGS
2 Collaboration
16 STUDENTS
19 DEVELOPMENT & ALUMNI
10 What is Jewish Detroit?
16 Student Profile: Abigail Williams, PhD Student 17 Student Profile: Kerry Rastigue, MSW Candidate 18 Dissertation Defense
19 Donor Profile: Larry Metzger, MSW ’70 20 Donor Profile: C. Aaron McNeece, MSW ’71, PhD ’76 22 Alumni Profile: Edmund Lewis, MSW ’09 23 Class Notes 24 In Memoriam
ON BACK COVER
Continuing Education
22 Alumni Profile: Edmund Lewis
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DEAN, UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN SCHOOL OF SOCIAL WORK
Laura Lein
DESIGN AND PRODUCTION
Michigan Creative: M-Philippe Badin Jim Reitz Hilary Robinson
For information regarding this publication, class notes, and address changes, contact the Office of Development and Alumni Relations, 734-763-6886 or ssw.development@umich.edu
2012 BOARD OF GOVERNORS
Anita Bohn ’88, President Hazelette Crosby-Robinson ’08, Vice President Mary Ortega, Secretary Blanca Almanza ’86 Bill Cabin ’04 Debbie Cohl ’08 Linda DeVries ’92 Dan Fischer ’84 Stephanie Francois ’07 Alan McBroom ’77 Nan Richter ’09 Randall Ross ’94 Gayle Shier ’08 Erica Solway ’05 Jonathan Stern ’84 Jamila Weathers ’04 FACULTY REPRESENTATIVES
Laurie Bueche, ex-officio Susan Himle, ex-officio Dean Laura Lein, ex-officio Mike Spencer
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Cover photos courtesy of Michael H. Hodges / The Detroit News: Social work students, and art and design students are working within the southwest Detroit community using art as a medium to address gang violence. Murals and graffiti are used as a form of communication. Legal murals in the area are used to tell the story of migration from Mexico to America.
Interdisciplinary Learning at SSW
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EDITOR
8 Medicare: Past, Present, and Future
15 Homecoming and Reunion Weekend, October 12–13, 2012
Spring 2012
Advances in research, lifelong edu cation, and the demands on service professions require social workers in our increasingly complex and technological society to work in multidisciplinary teams. They need to understand both the contributions of other professions and disciplines and their own unique contributions. Team-based efforts support a social worker’s development of comprehensive treatment/intervention plans, new approaches to community-based work, management strategies for multi-professional organizations, and policy innovations. Collaborative decision-making and information sharing among the helping professions ensure that consideration is given to all of the factors affecting intervention and outcome. These skills are most effectively learned through an interdisciplinary curriculum and approach. Since 1957, U-M SSW has offered a Joint Interdisciplinary Doctoral Program in Social Work. The MSW program also currently offers dual degrees with public health, law, business, information, urban planning and public policy. In this issue, we are highlighting new relationships with the art and dental schools and collaborations that are continuing to grow with U-M faculty and researchers in other areas. These campus collaborations bring our students in contact with internationally recognized scholars in a wide variety of research and professional domains. They push our students far beyond the evaluation and memorization of information related to a topic. Our SSW students become critical thinkers who have the ability to make comparisons that bridge disciplines and encourage participative decision-making.
“Our SSW students become critical thinkers who have the ability to make comparisons that bridge disciplines and encourage participative decision-making.”
This approach is why our graduates quickly advance to leadership positions in clinical practice, nonprofit agencies, community development organizations, higher education, foundations and more. Our students graduate prepared to make significant contributions in the social services.
Laura Lein, Dean Katherine Reebel Collegiate Professor of Social Work Professor of Anthropology
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