University of Chicago School of Social Service Administration
The School of Social Service Administration (SSA) is the school of social work at the University of Chicago. SSA was founded in 1903 by minister and social work educator Graham Taylor as the Social Science Center for Practical Training in Philanthropic and Social Work. By 1920, through the efforts of founding mothers Edith Abbott, Grace Abbott and Sophonisba Breckinridge, and such notable trustees as social worker Jane Addams and philanthropist Julius Rosenwald, the school merged with the University of Chicago as one of its graduate schools. It became known from that point forward as the School of Social Service Administration. The campus building the school occupies was designed by famed modernist architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe.
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| Type | Academic unit of the University of Chicago |
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| Established | 1920 |
| Dean | Deborah Gorman-Smith, Interim Dean |
| Location | , , US |
| Campus | Urban |
| Website | www |
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SSA gives its graduates a broad grounding in the social sciences. The school offers both a master’s-level program and a doctoral-level program. The master’s program lasts two years and can be pursued either full or part-time. It awards graduates with an A.M. degree in social work. The doctoral program awards graduating candidates with a Ph.D.
SSA ranks number 1 in social work graduate programs in the Gourman Report.[1]
On January 27, 2021, the university announced that following a $75 million gift from James Crown and Paula Crown, the SSA would be renamed the Crown Family School of Social Work, Policy, and Practice.[2]
See also
References
- https://www.socialpsychology.org/gsocwork.htm
- Cherney, Elyssa. "Historic gift of $75 million will go to University of Chicago social work school from Crown family". chicagotribune.com. Retrieved 27 January 2021.
External links
- SSA homepage
- Guide to the University of Chicago School of Social Service Administration Office of the Dean, Alton Linford, Records 1956-1969 at the University of Chicago Special Collections Research Center
- Guide to the University of Chicago School of Social Service Administration Office of the Dean, Harold Richman, Records 1969-1978 at the University of Chicago Special Collections Research Center
- Guide to the University of Chicago School of Social Service Administration Office of the Dean, Leon Carroll Marshall, Edith Abbott, and Helen R. Wright, Records 1920-1956 at the University of Chicago Special Collections Research Center
- Guide to the University of Chicago School of Social Service Administration Photographs 1935-1983 at the University of Chicago Special Collections Research Center
- Guide to the University of Chicago School of Social Service Administration WIN Program Records 1969-1973 at the University of Chicago Special Collections Research Center
- Guide to the University of Chicago School of Social Service Administration WIN Program Records 1969-1973 at the University of Chicago Special Collections Research Center