Noteworthy

Dexter Voisin appeared on WTTW's Chicago Tonight as a member of a panel discussing gun violence.
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SSA's US News Ranking: The School of Social Service Administration has solidified its US News & World Report ranking at number 3 among graduate schools of Social Work.
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Breast Cancer in Black Women May be Connected to Neighborhood Conditions: Path-breaking project led by Sarah Gehlert, Director of the Center for Interdisciplinary Health Disparities Research at the University.
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Featured Events

Professional Development Program
Summer Schedule now online

Rhoda G. Sarnat Lecture
Eileen D. Gambrill, Berkeley School of Social Welfare, The University of California
June 7th: Alumni Weekend

William Pollak Faculty Award for Teaching Excellence

William Pollak

The William Pollak Faculty Award for Teaching Excellence is given to a member of the SSA faculty for exemplary teaching. Given annually until 2003, the award is now presented every other year. On the occasion of his retirement, several of Professor Pollak's former students, colleagues, and others generously committed gifts to create an endowed fund which bears his name and which generates a cash prize for the award winner. Professor Pollak was a faculty member at SSA for 26 years, from 1976 to 2002. He taught courses that introduced students to economic analysis and that applied economics to a range of issues in social welfare. He also served as Associate Dean for Administration from 1983 to 1986, and as Deputy Dean for the Faculty from 1998 to 2001. He was the 1997-1998 recipient of the teaching award, which was renamed on his retirement in 2002.

SSA proudly recognizes the following teaching award winners:

2007: Judith A. Levine
2005: Gina M. Samuels
2003: Thomas Keller
2002: Waldo Johnson Jr.
2001: Julia Henly
2000: William Borden
1999: Karen Teigiser
1998: William Pollak
1997: Dolores Norton
1996: Sharon Berlin
1995: Melissa Roderick