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Thursday, August 2
Friday, August 3
Sat. & Sun., August 4 & August 5
Monday, August 6
Tuesday, August 7
Wednesday, August 8
After August 8
Ongoing Events
Announcements, Notices, and Awards
Lost and Found
Thursday, August 2, 5:00 - 6:30 pm, Ziskind Living Room.
The ARTF is composed of faculty, students and other member of the SSW community. It's purpose is to take action on anti-racism initiatives raised within the School community. This includes, but is not limited to campus-wide activities, exhibits, awareness-raising and coalition building. The Task Force will also facilitate the referral of concerns around racialized incidents. The group is open to all members of the Smith community and works with other organizations on campus to coordinate anti-racism initiatives. Jim Drisko and Fred Newdom are faculty conveners.
Thursday, August 2, 7:00 - 9:00 pm, Cutter Living Room.
Hurricane Katrina was a natural disaster whose terrible consequences represented the results of human decisions. The combined impact of governmental incompetence and indifference, along with racism and classism, turned a dreadful event into a continuing tragedy. Come hear Josh Miller, who participated in post-hurricane crisis services and Saralyn Masselink A'08, who developed a Community Project, investigating the on-going situation in New Orleans.
Friday, August 3, 12:30 pm, Cutter Head Resident Suite.
Throughout our time at Smith we have had opportunities to discuss, reflect, and act around issues related to oppression. Coming to the final days of our program, a group of us wanted to look at the idea of liberation and what it has to offer. We are creating a piece for skits based on the theme of liberation and we would like your participation. A team of us has already come up with a structure for the piece – what we need now are your thoughts, words and bodies to join us on Friday to make it happen. Please contact Mohammad Arefnia, Amy Hochberg, or Laura Escobar or Lauren Clarke for more information.
Friday, August 3, 7:00 - 9:00 pm, Leo Weinstein Auditorium - Wright Hall.
Evelyn Harris, former member of the internationally acclaimed vocal ensemble, Sweet Honey in the Rock, and special guest at the 2007 SSW Convocation Ceremony conducts this workshop for SSW students, faculty and staff. With emphasis on breathing and stretching exercises, participants will garner an essential method for releasing the voice, whether singing or speaking. The inspirational African-American song tradition, coupled with familiar folk and union songs will provide the basis for social justice themes and guarantee this workshop to be healing and affirming.
Please note: no drugs or alcohol the day of the workshop. Please bring a soft mat, blanket or the like for comfort during floor exercises.
For any questions, please contact Jensey at ext. 7977 or jgraham@email.smith.edu
- Sunday, August 5, 9:00 am - 12:00 pm, Helen Hills Chapel.
What is a Baccalaureate Ceremony? What do YOU want it to be? Our Baccalaureate committee sees this ceremony as an opportunity to create a reflective space in which to celebrate our interconnectedness, acknowledge our losses, express our gratitude and find meaning in our journey. We write to invite you to contribute to this rite of passage. If there is a reflection, poem, spiritual reading or ritual, song or expression of creativity or celebration that you would like to offer or see included in our Baccalaureate ceremony, please contact Liz Burnworth at eburnwor@email.smith.edu and/or attend our Sunday meeting. We hope that all who are interested will take part in the ceremony and/or attend Baccalaureate on Sunday, August 12 at 7:00 pm. If you have any further questions, please email Liz Burnworth at eburnwor@email.smith.edu.
Monday, August 6, 12:40 pm, Cutter Living Room.
Health Insurance: Come get your questions answered, meet the School's rep, ask questions in regards to online enrollment and waiver, etc.
Monday, August 6, 7:30 pm, Leo Weinstein Auditorium - Wright Hall
Alex Gitterman, Ph.D.
Why do some youth collapse under relatively minor life strains while others bounce back from traumatic life circumstances and experiences such as poverty and racism, community and family violence, sexual and other forms of abuse and loss of loved ones? This presentation will examine what accounts for the marked individual variations in people's responses to stress and adversity. Implications for practice will be explored and illustrated.
Alex Gitterman, Professor at the University of Connecticut School for Social Work, has published: Mutual Aid, Vulnerable and Resilient Populations, and the Life Cycle, (co-editor); The Handbook of Social Work Practice with Vulnerable and Resilient Populations, which has won the Robert Wood Johnson Award for excellence in end of life content; and The Life Model of Social Work Practice: Advances in Theory and Practice (co-author, 1996), which is on the Columbia University Press all-time best-seller list in social work. He is on the editorial board of the following journals: Clinical Social Work Journal, Clinical Journal of Supervision, Families in Society, Journal of Human Behavior in the Social Environment, Social Work with Groups, Social Work in Health Care, Reflections: Narratives of Professional Helping and Teaching in Social Work.
Tuesday, August 7, 7:00 pm, Seelye 106.
This film chronicles the extraordinary life and work of visionary Puerto Rican leader Antonia Pantoja whose works have had a profound impact on Hispanic education and opportunity. Dr. Antonia Pantoja's journey started from humble beginnings in San Juan, PR and has been acknowledged nationally, culminating in the Medal of Freedom presented to her by President Clinton in 1996. Her itinerant and piquant personality emerges in this film as the producers follow Dr. Pantoja as she creates self-help organizations, first in the Puerto Rican community and then throughout the United States and Puerto Rico. Dr. Pantoja's work combines advocacy, empowerment and education as vehicles to advance the lives and opportunities of Puerto Ricans across the country. While the film follows Dr. Pantoja's life and work, it is also a testament to the educational rights struggle fought by the Puerto Rican community.
Wednesday, August 8, 7:00 - 9:00 pm, Seelye 101.
Discussion about the issue of diversity while teaching in classrooms. Brenda Robinson & Joshua Miller will co-facilitate this last discussion for the summer. This is open to all faculty and doctoral students who are teaching. You are encouraged to attend this lively and meaningful discussion.
Thursday, August 9, 5:00 - 6:30 PM, Cutter Living Room.
The ARTF is composed of faculty, students and other member of the SSW community. It's purpose is to take action on anti-racism initiatives raised within the School community. This includes, but is not limited to campus-wide activities, exhibits, awareness-raising and coalition building. The Task Force will also facilitate the referral of concerns around racialized incidents. The group is open to all members of the Smith community and works with other organizations on campus to coordinate anti-racism initiatives. Jim Drisko and Fred Newdom are faculty conveners.
It's that time of year again. Time to waste hours each day brainstorming the perfect Biopychosocial Dance costume and burning your favorite tunes late at night for the dance. What is the Biopsychosocial Dance you ask? It's only the best thing going on at Smith. August 11th (Saturday of the fourth week). We will all come together as a student body and release all of our projections, anxieties and aggressive drives at the annual end of the year dance.
T-shirt ideas are now posted in Seelye Hall. Vote for your favorite and we will be selling two or three of the designs in the fourth week. We will also be selling tickets $15 ($10 if you are a non-drinker) in the fourth week. We'll send out another email with names of people you can find to buy these tickets.
So mark your calendars and start drumming up your best costume that represents anything relating to your biopsychosocial experience here at Smith. Grab a 2nd or 3rd year for ideas of some of the amazing costumes we've had in the past.
If you'd like to share some music for our booty-shaking pleasure, please burn it onto a CD and find someone on the dance committee to give it to. I'll be happy to take them (Lauren Rothwell, lrothwel@email.smith.edu).
Also... We'd love to see some talent- dance numbers, would be especially appropriate (you know because it's a dance and all). We're especially looking for you talented 3rd years needing to leave some lasting impressions for us. Thanks for doing a good job so far. I'm sure you wont let us down. Ok, get to it....
Dance Committee
Sunday, August 12, 7:00 pm, Helen Hills Chapel.
The soon to be graduates of 2007 invite everyone to our Baccalaureate ceremony as a way to create meaning of endings and new beginnings through ritual, song, dance and word. Baccalaureate is a ceremony to honor and to provide closure to the Smith experience through a variety of spiritual traditions and rituals. Please join us, the graduating class, in celebrating our time together.
Tuesday, August 14, 6:00 - 7:00 pm, Ziskind Living Room.
This a meeting for all 2nd years who will be working on the thesis project during the 07-08 academic year. Liane Hartman from ITS will present the new Thesis Formatting Templates from 6:00 - 6:30 pm. Following this, the thesis advising assignments will be distributed and Jean LaTerz, Thesis Coordinator, will briefly review some “tips” for surviving the thesis process!
Sunday, September 9, 10:00 am - 1:00 pm, Takoma Park MD.
Please plan to join us for brunch at the home of Heidi Block in Takoma Park, MD. First and second year students, please look for further details in your email account listed with the SCSSW. Soon to be new alumni, please email or call Nancy Meyer to let us know you are in town and to get additional details. nancy.meyer@na.amedd.army.mil or 301-873-6740.
Sunday, September 23, 3:00 pm, 930 Massachusetts Avenue, Cambridge, MA.
Meet current students, see old friends, get acquainted with alumni, share resources and have fun! This alumni/student potluck welcome event is being hosted by Amie Kravetz, MSW’97, Dan Beck, MSW’95, Mike Langlois, MSW’94 and Jessica Reed, MSW’86. Please RSVP to Amie Kravetz at (617) 389-2741 or amiejkravetz@netzero.com. This is a potluck so alumni please bring your favorite dish to share. Directions: From Central Square T station, head west down Massachusetts Avenue (numbers should increase as you walk down the street) about 4 blocks. Just past Hancock Street, you will see a yellow house on the left side of the street. Please go down the driveway and we will be on the back patio. Rain date is 9/30, call Dan at (617) 470-3900 for rain cancellation info.
Mondays, 12:30 - 1:30 pm, Ziskind Head Resident Suite.
Mondays, 12:30 - 1:30 pm, Cutter Head Resident Room.
Mondays, 5:30 - 7:00 pm, Ziskind Living Room and Thursdays, 12:20 - 1:30 pm, Ziskind Head Resident Suite.
Mondays, 5:45 pm, Cutter Living Room.
Mondays, Dinner time, Ziskind Head Resident Suite.
Tuesdays and Thursdays, 7:10 - 7:40 am, and Wednesdays, 5:40 - 6:15 pm, Lamont Living Room.
Please come join the non-denominational mediation group! If you have questions, would like to be added to the mailing list regarding other events,or would like instruction, contact lisapauline@gmail.com.
Tuesdays 12:30 - 1:30 pm, Ziskind Head Resident Suite.
Tuesdays, 5:30 - 7:00 pm-ish, Ziskind Head Resident Suite.
Wednesdays, 12:30 pm, Ziskind Living Room.
Wednesdays, 12:30 - 1:30 pm, Cutter Beau Parlor.
Please join this group for lunch for conversation in Spanish. Come to practice your skills and discuss issues particular to Latino culture and work with Latino clients. All levels of Spanish competency are welcome. Questions may be directed to swalker@email.smith.edu.
Wednesdays, 5:30 - 7:00 pm, Ziskind Living Room.
Wednesdays, 9:00 - 10:30 pm, Northrop Living Room.
Come join other students for a relaxed hour or so of knitting, chatting, relaxing, and general good times. Whether you're a seasoned knitting pro or novice hoping to learn, come join us for a laid-back study break!
Thursdays, 12:30 - 1:30 pm, Ziskind Living Room.
Thursdays, 12:30 - 1:30 pm, Cutter Head Resident Suite.
Thursdays, 12:30 - 1:30 pm, Cutter Beau Parlor.
Thursdays, 9:00 pm, Lamont Parlor Living Room.
Saturdays, 10:15 am - Music Starts, 10:30 am - Group Circle, Climbing Wall Room - Ainsworth Gym.
Come dance and move this weekend , freeing your mind and body to connect again. Please wear comfortable clothes, bring water, and be ready to move your body to your inner beat. No experience necessary. Please contact Lauren Clarke if you have any questions.
Sundays, 1:00 pm, The Garden Behind Capen, rain location: Capen Living Room.
Christian @ Smith? and looking for a community of other Christians to talk about your faith and how it affects your life here at Smith. Please come and join us!
Sundays, 6:30 pm, Leeds Dance Studio - Mendenhall Center for the Performing Arts.
Prepare for the upcoming week in ways other than reading! Come join us for lots of breathing, stretching, strengthening and movement. We can help each other let go of some stress and start the week fresh. All levels are welcome, please bring your own mat. Contact Zpora at zperry@email.smith.edu for more information.
A08 Students: Please stop by the first floor table in Seelye on Thurs 8/2 to vote for graduation speakers for our graduation ceremony next year. We will be voting for a realistic commencement speaker and a fellow classmate. Speak with classmates to get the ideas rolling!
To all members of the MSW/BSW class of ‘07, from Laurie Wyman, Admin. Assistant/Research Sequence.
If you have borrowed your own thesis to give to a second reader or moderator, please return it as soon as possible (unless you have made prior arrangements with me). It is important that all theses are accounted for prior to the end of the program. Thanks. A copy will be available for you to pick up starting Wednesday, August 8th. In the envelope containing your thesis will be the evaluation your advisor completed. A copy of that evaluation will be placed in your permanent file here at Smith. The copy of your thesis on acid-free paper has been sent over to Neilson Library for binding and cataloguing. The second copy you submitted will remain here in Lilly Hall for students and others to read over the winter. Your abstract will be published in the March 2008 issue of the Smith Studies in Social Work.
Members of the research faculty have nominated outstanding theses from the Class of 2007 that deserve the recognition of the Eleanor Clark Thesis Prize. Those students whose theses have been nominated are: Deborah Caserta, Megan Cavanaugh, Hillary Despres, Susan Howells, Jamie Loveland, Lisa Smith, Sara Willott and Nicole Young. Congratulations to all the nominees.
The program is a clinically designed tool for family courts that assesses parents' and families' psychological and interpersonal functioning in order to determine the level and type of service that best matches their needs. The job will require:
1) someone local to the CT, MA, maybe NY area;
2) ability to work comfortably with SPSS, to work with data bases, to do basic statistics and generate tables;
3) work at home on my laptop except for 2-hour meetings in northern CT every two months and up to 6-10 additional days spent in court over the year. Opportunities for training, clinical analysis with social workers and professional presentations. Pay = $20/hour. Work is flexible, averages out to 10 hours per week. Call Marsha Pruett at x7997 if interested.
Earn $500 and publish. I am looking for a student who wants to gain publishing experience by working with me on an article summarizing the divorce field for the Handbook of Family Psychology. This handbook is widely used in undergraduate and graduate classes and by professionals. Your contributing colleagues are stellar, and it is a guaranteed publication. It could be used toward your own comps or thesis as well. Living local is not an issue. Must have excellent writing skills. The project must be worked on this fall, for a November 15th submission date. Call Marsha Pruett at x7997 if interested.
Please visit the SWAA table in front of the Campus Center between 10:00 am - 2:00 pm from July 30th-August 2nd (Same table as the JSA's Tikkun Olam Project) to get more information about the racist injustice in Jena, LA. To sign the petition & make a donation online, visit:
http://www.colorofchange.org/jena/?id=1424-186858
For more general information, visit:
http://www.democracynow.org/streampage.pl?show=2007-07-10
The Jewish Students Alliance is once again sponsoring the Tikkun Olam Project. We will be collecting donations of school supplies for the School Street Clinic of Holyoke. We will be outside of the campus center between 10:00 am - 2:00 pm from July 30th-August 2nd. Please donate notebooks, pens or anything else that you have!
The AFWPSC Selection Committee appreciates all of the candidates who applied for the student rep position, and would like to announce Eliza Schiffrin as the A09 Student Representative to the Academic and Field Work Performance Standing Committee.
All students going into Field: In your student mail boxes are bright orange ticket cards explaining how to sign up for or waive out of health insurance for the period of September 1, 2007 - August 31, 2008. All of you must do this before August 10, 2007 or your student account will be billed. There is a new process where you can do it online through Koster Insurance. Again, all students entering Field placement in the Fall must complete either the waiver or the enrollment process. Direct questions to: sswfa@email.smith.edu.
Remember how cute you were as a kid? Now the rest of Smith can know too! We are looking for your childhood pictures for the Now and Then Slide Show at Skits, and don’t forget the grown pictures too. You can bring/send them to Rebecca Randall, Megan Lynch, or Angie Casper by Friday August 3rd. We prefer PDF or JPG/JPEG files, but will accept any form (even paper as we have access to a scanner). Each person will have one kid picture, and one grown picture in the slide show. We will take good care of any pictures and return them as we received them. Send pictures to: Megan Lynch at mlynch2@email.smith.edu, Angela Casper at acasper@email.smith.edu or Rebecca Randall at box 8493.
A message to the members of the Class of 2007 who are required and have yet to complete their thesis dissemination from Laurie Wyman: To begin, congratulations to all on a successful first term. Just a reminder that the Dissemination of Knowledge deadline is Friday, August 3rd. Please make sure you turn in your Dissemination Form to me in Lilly 218 by that date. Thanks to those of you who have already done so. Please contact me if you need a Dissemination Confirmation form. Thank you.
Four $500 thesis grants are currently being offered by the Alumni Association. The following grants are designed to support excellence in student research and are awarded on the basis of merit.
- Thesis Grant for Students of Color: This grant will be awarded for the most outstanding thesis proposal submitted by a student of color.The grant was established to support the academic striving for excellence of students of color, and as a statement of the Committee's interest in the retention of students of color.
- Thesis Research Grant: This grant was established to underscore the Association's interest in documenting the historical experience of students of color at the Smith College School for Social Work. All students are encouraged to apply. The grant will be awarded to the student whose thesis proposal best explores the history of alumni/students of color at the School. Proposal foci can include but are not limited to: alumni of color as a whole; specific groups of alumni of color; alumni of color by graduation year; the formal and informal organization of alumni/students of color; individual contributions of alumni of color (including oral histories); etc. For example, a thesis title may be, “A Comparative Analysis of Theoretical Orientation of Alumni of Color from 1970-1980” or “Community-Based Practice vs. Private Practice among Alumni of Color: Meeting the Needs of African American Families.”
- Alumni Association Thesis Grant: This grant was established to support outstanding student research on at-risk populations. All students are encouraged to apply.
- 90th Anniversary Thesis Award: In recognition of Smith’s origins as a response to returning veterans, this $500 grant will be awarded to the most outstanding thesis related to social work practice with a focus on military issues, military experience, and its impact.
Submission Criteria for each of the above grant applications:
- Introduction to the purpose of the project
- Expected contribution to the field as well as limitations of the project
- Methodology: This might include the setting, plans for a questionnaire, and number of subjects (if applicable)
- A brief statement should summarize a review of the literature
- The above should be no more than six to eight pages using APA guidelines for formatting and presentation
- All submissions must have received approval from the Human Subjects Review Committee in order to be considered
Evaluation Criteria for each of the above grant applications:
- Originality of thought and relevance to the field
- Strength and relevance of argument
- Research or study design plan
- Clarity and organization
Application deadline: The application deadline is February 18, 2008. Please contact Pat Gilbert at pgilbert@email.smith.edu to obtain an application cover page. Materials should be mailed to Smith College School for Social Work, Office of Alumni Affairs, Lilly Hall, Northampton, MA 01063, Attn. Roxanne Pin, Director.
A document listing information regarding Loan Forgiveness Programs can be found on the School website http://www.smith.edu/ssw/oas/forstudents.php. If your state is not listed, it's a good opportunity for you to contact your state NASW Chapter and engage in advocacy toward this end.
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