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We’re proud of all the wonderful things you have accomplished—personally and professionally—and look forward to hearing more about them. We are also grateful for your willingness to stay in touch with the Fordham Ramily! Please use the links on this page to stay in touch, enhance your career through professional development and continuing education, help our students, and attend some of our great community events!
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Fordham GSS News

Fordham Honors GSS Alpha Sigma Nu Members

Fordham Honors GSS Alpha Sigma Nu Members

Last month, Fordham University held a ceremony at the Rose Hill campus to celebrate this year’s Alpha Sigma Nu inductees. We would like to also personally congratulate all of the members from the Graduate School of Social Service! GSS Alpha Sigma Nu Inductees: Tabetha Obioma Aghaji Savanna E. Boyer Fortunata A. Campbell Ethan C. Carilli […]

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Public Interest Technology is a Fight for Our Future

Public Interest Technology is a Fight for Our Future

What is Public Interest Technology?   Technology is not inherently bad; it’s a tool. In many cases, technology does good things—it can automate boring tasks, connect us with others all over the world, and help more equitably distribute resources.  However, even free tech tools come at a price, and we must question technology’s challenges. Is there […]

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Smith Celebrates ‘Difficult Mothering’ Book’s Paperback Release

Smith Celebrates ‘Difficult Mothering’ Book’s Paperback Release

On April 24, the Graduate School of Social Service welcomed Associate Professor Emerita Judith Smith, Ph.D., back to campus to celebrate a book launch for the paperback release of her 2022 book, Difficult: Mothering Adult Children Through Conflict and Change. In the literary world, when a book is re-released from hardcover-only to paperback, it means […]

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How to Graduate with Your MSW Degree On Time

How to Graduate with Your MSW Degree On Time

With 2024 graduation just weeks away, Master of Social Work (MSW) students just starting the program get a hint of what’s to come for them! But just because you’re in the Generalist Phase of your MSW program doesn’t mean you shouldn’t plan for the big day. It’s never too early to set yourself up to […]

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MSW Students Make Connections at 2024 Career Fair

MSW Students Make Connections at 2024 Career Fair

With over 30 employers in attendance, the 2024 MSW Career and Networking fair was a huge success for our Master of Social Work Students. Students brought their polished resumes and best attitudes to the Westchester campus, where they mingled with employers seeking fresh graduates for social work positions. “At first, I was pretty nervous, but […]

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The Body Tells the Story: Fordham M.S.W. Student Using Degree to Support Narrative Healing

The Body Tells the Story: Fordham M.S.W. Student Using Degree to Support Narrative Healing

Fordham M.S.W. student Lisa Weinert believes Western culture doesn’t appreciate the body enough. In a rise-and-grind world, we treat our bodies as things to tolerate—hunched over a desk, moving from project to project, only noticing when something goes wrong, forcing a doctor visit. Our sophisticated organism is reduced to a mere vessel for task completion. […]

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2024 Fordham GSS Lincoln Center Open House – Success!

2024 Fordham GSS Lincoln Center Open House – Success!

Thank you so much to everyone who came to our 2024 Lincoln Center Accepted Students Reception and Open House! After rescheduling due to sever weather a few weeks ago, we had a great night meeting you all and showing you around campus! At this event, new and prospective students explored the campus, heard from faculty, […]

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Goldkind Organizes Fordham’s Inaugural Public Interest Technology Gathering

Goldkind Organizes Fordham’s Inaugural Public Interest Technology Gathering

Fordham Graduate School of Social Service Professor Lauri Goldkind, Ph.D., continues to lead the Public Interest Technology (PIT) effort at Fordham. Goldkind, who was awarded a 16-month, $178,000 grant from the 2023 PIT-UN Network Challenge for her project “Building Inclusive Public Interest Technology Learning Competencies,” has now organized Fordham’s first Public Interest Technology Gathering. She […]

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Fordham MSW/MPH Student Presents at NYAM Student Conference

Fordham MSW/MPH Student Presents at NYAM Student Conference

Fordham MSW/MPH student Rachel Gentile, GSS ’24, presented this month at the New York Academy of Medicine’s (NYAM) 15th Annual Student Social Work Night alongside students from nine other New York social work programs. Gentile’s presentation was titled “Disparities in Healthy Food Access and Low-Income Neighborhoods in New York City: Implications for Behavioral and Physical […]

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This MSW Alumni Is Mentoring Students as a Bronx School Social Worker

This MSW Alumni Is Mentoring Students as a Bronx School Social Worker

Ian Staley is a 2023 graduate of Fordham GSS’s Master of Social Work (M.S.W.) program. He attended Fordham’s Westchester campus as a part-time student and was a PIPELINE for Youth Health fellow in the 2022-2023 academic year. Ian now works for NYC Public Schools as a school social worker in the Bronx, and he was […]

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