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In order to fulfill the urban mission of UW-Milwaukee, the School offered many of its regular curriculum courses during the afternoon and evening to accommodate not only part-time and full-time students, but also human service practitioners who wanted to further upgrade their skills.
Albert Hall, home of the School of Social Welfare in 1965.
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• In 1978, the School began preparing to offer a Master of Science in Criminal Justice, which was formally introduced in 1981; it was the only master’s level criminal justice program in the UW-System.
In the 1970s, the School began blending the scholarly and the practical.
Social Welfare Integrates into UW-Milwaukee The Helen Bader School of Social Welfare has deep roots, both in Milwaukee and throughout the state of Wisconsin. University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee archives
On July 1, 1965, the Regents established the School of Social Welfare as a major division of UW-Milwaukee. During the 1960s, the School introduced courses in criminal justice and home economics. The home economics program was subsequently dropped, but the criminal justice program grew rapidly.
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