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In US News and World Report's latest rankings of the country's best universities in academic quality, Berkeley Social Welfare has placed in the top...Read more about Berkeley Social Welfare MSW Program Ranked #3 in Nation

Jessica Blanche Peixotto is credited with being the founder of social welfare studies at Berkeley. Her family’s story can be traced back to the time when Christopher Columbus was setting off for the New World. On the Iberian Peninsula in the late 1400s the Inquisition was in full swing. One...Read more about Our Founding Mother: Jessica Blanche Peixotto

What are some of the current challenges to maintaining social welfare programs for the nation’s most vulnerable people in the Trump era? Assistant Professor Tina Sacks explores this issue in the latest podcast in the Berkeley Talks series. Her lecture gives an overview of the incidence and...Read more about Assistant Professor Tina Sacks featured on Berkeley Talks

Dear Social Welfare Community,

We are living through a period of widening hate driven violence across our country and in many communities. Some communities have long been on the receiving end of such violence but it is clearly accelerating, whether the target is a Black church, a group of...Read more about Dean's Reflections on Hate-driven Incidents

Dear Social Welfare Community,

I write to reflect on the events in Washington DC and elsewhere in our country last week. On Thursday we witnessed two starkly different testimonies before the Senate Judiciary Committee about events decades in the past. Dr. Ford offered a humble account of...Read more about Dean's Reflections on Recent Senate Hearings

Tina Sacks reflects on the spectrum of public reactions to Serena Williams breaking a tennis racket during a US Open match, reactions that signify "Serena’s long history of disrespect at the hands...Read more about Serena Redux: On the US Open, Race, Gender + Public Health

In acknowledgment of a recent board appointment, Assistant Professor Tina Sacks is the new chair at the Institute for the Study of Societal...Read more about Professor Tina Sacks Named CRSC Chair

In recognition of exemplary research that focuses on psychosocial problems within the Chicano and Latino communities, Professor Kurt Organista has been selected for the Chancellor’s...Read more about Prof. Kurt Organista Awarded Chancellor's Fellowship

Dear Social Welfare Community,

This starts my seventh and final year as your dean. It has been my honor to be your dean during such a period of significant change in the life of the School and a full circle in my career that started right here in Haviland Hall as an undergraduate...Read more about Dean Jeffrey Edleson Begins Final Year as Dean

Berkeley is ranked #2 in the country in a new study examining the impact of faculty scholarship among 1,699 faculty at all 76 social work doctoral programs in the United States (Smith, Jacobs, Osteen & Carter, 2018)....Read more about Berkeley Social Welfare Faculty Scholarship #2 in Nation

Berkeley Social Welfare mourns the loss and celebrates the life of former Oakland mayor, Social Welfare alum and beloved congressional firebrand Ron Dellums (MSW '62).

"Ron Dellums, the son of a longshoreman who became one of America's best-known black congressmen, a...Read more about Social Advocate Ron Dellums (MSW '62) dies at 82

Two graduating social welfare majors were recognized at the 2018 UC Berkeley Chancellor's Awards for Public Service. This prestigious annual event celebrating Berkeley student and faculty service to their communities took place on April 30 at the International House.

Katie Cruz was the...Read more about Social Welfare Undergrads Receive Public Service Honors

Berkeley Social Welfare Field Consultant Andrea Dubrow has been named a 2018 Honored Instructor by UC Berkeley Extension in recognition of her teaching excellence and personifying a professional commitment to lifelong learning.

She is the coordinator of the Bay Area Social Services...Read more about Field Consultant Andrea Dubrow Named Honored Instructor

Three of the six recipients of UC Berkeley's 2018 Jim Fahey Safe Homes for Women Fellowship are graduating MSW students.

Karina Sweitzer, Erica West and Iris Lin (pictured left to right) were honored earlier this week by the Berkeley Graduate Division.

Established in 2007, the...Read more about MSW Students Named Fahey Fellows

Berkeley Social Welfare has graduated 12,000 social work leaders and practitioners and is the scholarly home of distinguished faculty who produce awardwinning research and provide training in support of the profession. The School, however, had yet to directly staff a social worker dedicated to...Read more about Meet Ari Neulight, Outreach Coordinator for People's Park

Dr. Park Neunghoo (PhD ’98) remembers the day — it was February 22, 1998 to be exact — that he earned his doctoral degree in social welfare from the University of California, Berkeley. Having completed his dissertation on California’s public assistance programs and...Read more about Health and Welfare Minister Park Neunghoo (PhD '98) on promoting policies that benefit children and the elderly in South Korea

When Steven Czifra (MSW ’20)arrived on the Berkeley campus, his humble intent was to earn his BA in English — a goal he met in 2015 — and continue on to a doctoral program in the same field. “My whole plan,” he says, “was to get through here without being noticed.”

That bid for anonymity...Read more about Steven Czifra (MSW '20): Voice for Former Prisoners

On January 22, Berkeley Social Welfare’s newly established Latinx Center of Excellence (LCOE) honored its first cohort of stipend recipients. Comprising 20 students in their first or second year of the MSW program, the awardees were selected for their demonstrated passion and...Read more about Latinx Center of Excellence Honors Stipend Recipients