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Student Spotlight: Josh Levy
March is Social Work Month, and National School Social Work Week is March 6–12! Learn more about Josh Levy, one of our school social work students, in this week's Student Spotlight. Class Year: May 2022 Program: Dual Degree MSW/MNO Hometown: Columbus, OH Why did you choose to enroll at…
Affordable housing group beat gentrification tide in Woodlawn, report says
Crain's Chicago Business: Amy Khare, research assistant professor and the research director at the National Initiative on Mixed-Income Communities, discussed a decade-long study showing that affordable housing could stave off gentrification.   Read the article Read a similar article in the…
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Distinguished University Professor Claudia Coulton advises on report series; Poverty Center work cited
Actionable Intelligence for Social Policy at University of Pennsylvania produced a three-part series of reports, funded by the Gates Foundation, to explore the value of linked administrative data in the study of programs and policies that drive mobility out of poverty.  Claudia Coulton, the…
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2022 Cleveland Humanities Festival: ‘DISCOURSE’
This spring, the seventh Cleveland Humanities Festival continues its annual exploration of some of society’s most pressing issues and concerns—through the lens of a single topic This March and April, the 2022 Cleveland Humanities Festival (CHF) will probe the idea of “discourse” through art,…
Student Spotlight: Ariana Wilin
Class Year: 2022 Degree program: MSW, with a concentration in Community Practice for Social Change After the killings of Breonna Taylor and George Floyd—and the powerful social justice movement that followed beginning in the summer of 2020—Ariana Wilin felt called to do more in the fight for…
Carjackings on the rise in Northeast Ohio
WKYC: Daniel J. Flannery, the Semi J. and Ruth W. Begun Professor and director of the Begun Center for Violence Prevention Research and Education, said the rise in carjackings is causing some people to re-evaluate the state's approach to dealing with teenaged offenders, scrutinizing a state…
“From the Ground Up: A Decade of Community-Informed Development in Woodlawn”
Join the Preservation of Affordable Housing (POAH) for a roundtable discussion with community leaders, including the National Initiative on Mixed-Income Communities’ Research Director Amy T. Khare. Attendees will hear the results of research focused on a decade of public and private investment…
Student Spotlight: Sarah Balser
Social work student’s poster recognized at conference At the National Association of Social Workers Ohio 2021 Annual Conference in November, doctoral student Sarah Balser won the Graduate Level Poster Session Research Award. The award recognized her poster on essential workers, titled “A…
Holton-Wise, a flood of covert LLCs and out-of-state investors have radically changed the local housing market. Is there anything Cleveland can do to fight back?
Cleveland Scene: Robert L. Fischer, associate professor and co-director of the Center on Urban Poverty and Community Development, discussed the dramatic increase in the number of out-of-state real estate investors in the Cleveland housing market.
Inspire Your Heart with Art: Joanna Klingenstein
From the stages and classrooms of the newly expanded Maltz Performing Arts Center to collaborations with nearby cultural organizations, APP is home to incredible opportunities in dance, art, theater and music. Students, faculty and staff at the College of Arts and…