School of Social Work

  1. December 8, 2025

    Life-changing model aims to prevent at-risk substance use

    A learning opportunity offered by U-M is mentoring future leaders, transforming lives and generating solutions for pressing problems right where they are needed.

  2. November 20, 2025

    Barriers keeping people with disabilities from workforce

    People with disabilities who desire to work should be provided opportunities and avenues to secure meaningful employment, Connie Sung told the Board of Regents.

  3. October 23, 2025

    Harold R. Johnson, first African American dean at U-M, dies at 99

    Harold Robert Johnson, the first African American dean at the University of Michigan, died Oct. 13 at the age of 99 at his home in Ann Arbor, after a short illness.

  4. September 29, 2025

    Social Work lecturer teaches animal-assisted therapy at Dexter farm

    For Laura Sanders, a longtime social worker and senior lecturer at the School of Social Work, Lovingway Farm is a living, breathing classroom and a therapeutic setting where people and animals meet to heal.

  5. September 15, 2025

    M-PACT announces 12 new faculty scholars across seven schools

    The Michigan Program for Advancing Cultural Transformation has announced the appointment of 12 new tenure-track assistant professors in the biomedical and health sciences.

  6. September 15, 2025

    A dive into the enduring impact of named professorships

    Named professorships, a tradition at U-M for more than a century, play a critical role in nurturing research, perpetuating the values of their namesakes, and enabling the work done at U-M to make a lasting difference.

  7. August 11, 2025

    School of Social Work announces new master’s program

    The School of Social Work is launching a new and innovative 30-credit Master of Arts degree in Social Impact Leadership.

  8. June 23, 2025

    Accolades — June 2025

    Awards and honors for faculty and staff, including Huda Akil, Matthew L. Boulton, Andrei S. Markovits, Matthew Solomon, the School of Social Work, Karen A. Thole and Kentaro Toyama.

  9. April 28, 2025

    Eleven faculty projects receive U-M Arts Initiative support

    The U-M Arts Initiative announced its winter 2025 recipients for the Arts Initiative Project Support grants, funding 11 faculty-led projects across the university.

  10. April 14, 2025

    Assistant professor has visited 100-plus countries

    Ashley Cureton, assistant professor in the School of Social Work and the Marsal Family School of Education, is a member of The Travelers’ Century Club.