Three Proffs Promoted

In June, Morton Lowengrub, Vice President for Academic Affairs, announced three promotions. Drs. Joan Beder and David Strug were promoted to full professors. Dr. Jonathan Fast was promoted to associate professor. Fast and Strug were also tenured at this time.

• Read about Dr. Beder’s breast cancer walk and read an excerpt from her most recent book.
• Learn about Dr. Strug’s ongoing advocacy for social work education in Cuba.
• Read about Dr. Fast’s violence research.

Wurzweiler Journal Publishes Award-winning Article

The Center for Child Welfare Policy of the North American Resource Center for Child Welfare (NARCCW) has announced its 2005 Pro Humanitate Literary Awards. Each year, NARCCW celebrates outstanding literary achievement of authors from the United States and Canada in the field of child welfare. Awards are presented to authors who exemplify the intellectual integrity and moral courage required to transcend political and social barriers to champion “best practice” in the field of child welfare. One of the five $1000 awards this year went to Tracey Field for her article “The Child Welfare Funding Problem: The title IV-E Straitjacket vs. the Medicaid Roadblock” published in Wurzweiler’s Social Work Forum, Vol. 37, Spring 2004, p. 5-42. Co-Editors-in-Chief of the Forum are Eric Levine’94 and WSSW Professor Daniel Pollack.