SSA offers a number of lectures throughout the year, where experts speak on a variety of current issues in social work and social welfare policy.
Upcoming Lectures/Symposia:
The Ikuo Yamaguchi Memorial Seminar
Past Lectures:
Technology and the Rising Cost of Health Care: A Paradigm Shift
Navigating the Cultural Divide: Bridging the Gap Between our Professional, Public and Private Selves
Tampa Harper Lecture with Virginia Parks – Jobs and Politics: Urban Grassroots Responses
Pastora San Juan Cafferty Lecture on Race and Ethnicity in American Life
Social Exclusion: The Marginalization of African Americans in Health Care, Housing and Employment
Poverty, Promise, & Possibility Lecture Series
Sexual Identity, Health and Stigma in India: Traditional Statuses and Western Influences
Jelani McEwen
When Jelani McEwen begins his new job as Charter Support Manager of the Illinois Network of Charter Schools upon graduation from the School of Social Service Administration in June 2013, in some ways he will have come full circle.