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Dear Wurzweiler Alumni, Welcome to our new Alumni Newsletter! We have much to celebrate in this first issue and in the following ones to come. As we move into our 60 th year of existence, we have conferred thousands of master鈥檚 degrees and hundreds of doctoral degrees. We are proud of the immense鈥�

by Daniel Pollack In New Jersey, you can be a foster parent before you're able to buy a cigarette. The minimum age to buy cigarettes -- 19; the minimum age to be a foster parent -- 18. In Alabama, Massachusetts, Michigan, Montana, Nebraska, and New Jersey, you can be a foster parent before being ...

WELCOME TO COMMUNITY: Connecting Wurzweiler Alumni and Friends Pictured L to R - Sheila Yossem (Director of Admissions), Dr. Lynn Levy (Professor), Virginia Kurlander (Assistant to the Dean), Dr. Daniel Pollack (Professor), and Marc Raco (Office Manager) We are delighted to present this first ...

Alumni Spotlight - How Are You Changing the World? "My Work/My Passion!" by Irene Borins Ash (MSW '87 - Toronto, Canada) I graduated from Wurzweiler School of Social Work in 1987. My work was always with seniors and their families. Over the years I began to question why some seniors aged with a ...

An article, written by Wurzweiler professor Daniel Pollack, JD and recently published in an issue of Policy & Practice, deals with the important issue of Sexual assault of minors in rural areas. From Professor Pollack: "I've been involved in nearly seventy-five expert witness cases around the鈥�

"We listen to people鈥檚 pain. We try to relate to it, no matter how insane." Ariel Mozeson, MSW WSSW '15 On May 11th, 2015 Wurzweiler School of Social Work congratulated fifty MSW and PhD graduates as they completed their Wurzweiler experience and began their careers as professional social workers鈥�

鈥淧ursuing the mission, vision and values of this privileged and humble profession is critical to achieving a just and compassionate society.鈥� Athena Motal, PhD WSSW '15 On May 11th, 2015 Wurzweiler School of Social Work congratulated fifty MSW and PhD graduates as they completed their Wurzweiler ...

鈥淭hey say that it takes a special type of person to be a social worker; someone who has a vision of change.鈥� Temimah Zucker, MSW, WSSW '15 On May 11th, 2015 Wurzweiler School of Social Work congratulated fifty MSW and PhD graduates as they completed their Wurzweiler experience and began their ...

鈥淓very one of us has the ability to save the world, one person at a time, one agency at a time, or one community at a time.鈥� Ted Alter, WSSW PhD, '15 On May 11th, 2015 Wurzweiler School of Social Work congratulated fifty MSW and PhD graduates as they completed their Wurzweiler experience and began鈥�

Left to right: Dr. Darla Spence Coffey, President and CEO of CSWE; Dr. Carmen Ortiz Hendricks, Chair of CSWE鈥檚 Commission on Accreditation; Dr. Alan Detlaff, Chair of the Commission on Educational Policy; and Dr. Jo Ann Regan, Director of Social Work Accreditation. The 2015 Educational Policy (EP鈥�