News and Events

2^nd Annual Stony Brook University Converging Science Summit

co-sponsored by the School of Social Welfare

Advancing Health Outcomes: The Intersection of Health and Technology

Monday, April 15, 2013

8 a.m. – 4 p.m.

General Public Registration Fee: $100 (lunch included)
Stony Brook University Faculty/Staff Registration Fee: $50 (lunch included)
Stony Brook University Student Registration Fee: Free (lunch not included)

A letter of welcome from the Conference Committee

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18th Annual Leadership Symposium

Speakers:

• Laurie A. Schreiner, Ph.D. Chair and Professor, Department of Doctoral Higher Education, Azusa Pacific University
  David L. Ferguson, Ph.D. Distinguished Service Professor and Chair of Technology and Society, Associate Provost for Diversity and Inclusion, Stony Brook University
  Jerrold L. Stein, Ed. D. Associate Vice President and Dean of Students, Stony Brook University
  A Panel of SBU students

A focus on thriving in college has the potential to change the way we view student success and to shape the strategies we use to assist students. It shifts our attention from failure prevention to success promotion.

The Symposium examined the construct of thriving as a measure used to understand student success over and above the traditional consideration of gender, ethnicity, generation status, high school grades and admission test scores. As co-author of the Student Satisfaction Inventory, a nationally normed instrument used on more than 1,600 college and university campuses across the United States and Canada, Dr. Schreiner’s report on these national findings provides guidelines for faculty, and academic and student affairs professionals on emerging practices and interventions. Stony Brook University respondents provided their perspectives on SBU’s efforts in implementing these promising practices.

Co-sponsored by the Office of the Vice President for Student Affairs and the School of Social Welfare, this Symposium was part of the OVPSA Professional Development Series. Dr. Schreiner’s lecture was also sponsored by the Provost’s Lecture Series.

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2013 School of Social Welfare Advocacy Day

 March 1, 2013

“Get Radical About Critical Social Work” was the theme of the 11th annual Advocacy Day, hosted by Stony Brook University’s School of Social Welfare and its Graduate Student Government on March 1 in the Student Activities Center. Nearly 230 students, faculty and representatives from 11 activist groups — covering topics as diverse as the environment, racism, social justice, transgender support, and animal rights, among others — attended the event. Michael Reisch, a leading social work scholar and educator in the United States and a former assistant dean for student affairs in the School of Social Welfare, delivered the keynote speech on the topics of social justice, its implications on social work, and new goals for social workers. The Advocacy Day event is organized in collaboration with the SSW Graduate Student Government, the National Association of Social Workers, the National Association of Puerto Rican and Hispanic Social Workers and the Suffolk County Division of the League of Women Voters.