A message from Dean Luis H. Zayas
Issues
All about Steve
Get to know the man behind the gift Steve Hicks opens the door at 9 a.m. on the dot. On a muggy summer day, he graciously lets a motley crew of both art and suit types into his Old West Austin home. A castle-like exterior gives way to surprisingly airy and luminous interiors of white […]
Steve Hicks’s gift at a glance
The first cohort
The 2017 Steve Hicks Scholars Steve Hicks’s generous gift will create a permanent endowment to provide financial support to master’s level students. An endowed gift is invested, never spent. Each year a distribution — like dividends on a mutual fund account — will be made to fund Steve Hicks Scholars. These scholars will have almost […]
Minimizing harm
Is the opioid epidemic bringing harm reduction into the mainstream?
Fitness for all
Carolyn Haney wants social workers to take up the cause of fitness access.
Tested in Texas
Marilyn Armour and her team work with TEA to introduce restorative discipline to educators across the state.
Sam Woollard on the business of social work
Sam Woollard still remembers the refurbished apartment building with the filled-in swimming pool where the School of Social Work was housed in 1988, when she got her bachelor’s degree. Woollard now owns two consulting business that respectively support philanthropy planning and social impact initiatives. She thinks there is much opportunity for social workers to bring […]
V is for Volunteering
Service is one of the core values in the NASW Code of Ethics. Nine alumni share where and why they volunteer. Stephanie Glass, MSSW ‘16, Women’s Storybook Project, Austin “I visit women who are in prison and record them reading books to their children. In my last visit, I went to the Gatesville Women’s Prison […]
The cost of human trafficking
There are more than 300,000 victims of human trafficking in Texas, including almost 79,000 minors and youth victims of sex trafficking and nearly 234,000 adult victims of labor trafficking, according to a groundbreaking study by the Institute on Domestic Violence & Sexual Assault (IDVSA). The study also established that traffickers exploit approximately $600 million per […]