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Students, Alumni and Faculty Evaluate Significant Changes in the Late 1980s

Posted byLauren Anderson May 26, 2018July 20, 2018

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Significant changes instituted by Ann Hartman soon after she became dean in 1986 brought the attention of students on campus, of the Northampton Community and of alumni spread around the world. The Sophian, the undergraduate newspaper, the Daily Hampshire Gazette and the SSW Journal detailed the concerns and, in the case of the SSW Journal, offered administration and faculty responses to alumni questions about the challenges. Given the context of conflict outlined by Joanne Frustaci in her oral history, you can see that Dean Hartman and others wanted to address the disagreements by open conversation rather than by restricting it.

 

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What is being done to help students of color, as well as white students, to work together productively in a multi-cultural world?

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How can material on the social environment keep being added to the curriculum without reducing the clinical material and therby short-changing the students who come to Smith to become first-rate clinicians?

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Ann Duroe, “Changes at Smith School of Social Work Reflect Changes in Society” The Sophian, November 3, 1988.

Roderick Robinson, “At Smith School for Social Work: Alumni Fear Major Changes” Daily Hampshire Gazette, August 31, 1988.

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The School for Social Work

A Candid Perspective

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Smith College Journal School for Social Work, Vol 7, No 1, Spring/Summer 1989. School for Social Work Records, RG 60, College Archives, Smith College, Northampton, MA.

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Posted byLauren AndersonMay 26, 2018July 20, 2018Posted inNewsletters and NewspapersTags: 1980s, Alumni, Ann Hartman, clinical social work, Commitment to Anti-racism, Curriculum

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