Professor Alejandro Garcia recently received recognition for his outstanding service as Vice Chair/Secretary of the Council on Social Work Education, the accrediting association for baccalaureate and master’s degree social work programs in the United States.
Dr. Garcia is pictured above with Dr. Carmen Ortiz Hendricks, the Dean of the Yeshiva School of Social Work and a CSWE board member, and Barbara Shank, the chair of the board of directors.
Congratulations to Merril Silverstein. He received a James Martin Fellowship from the Oxford Martin School at Oxford University, in the Oxford Institute of Population Aging to fund his residency in Population Aging during the Spring of 2016.
SSSP’S YOUTH, AGING, AND THE LIFE COURSE DIVISION / CALL FOR PAPERS
The Youth, Aging, and Life Course Division of the Society for the Study of Social Problems (SSSP) is organizing a broad array of panels for the 2015 Annual Meeting in Chicago, IL (August 21-23). Sessions on crime, disability, substance use, sexuality, and leisure and recreation across the life course, as well as a session on mental health, aging, and the life course, are planned. Additionally, there will be a thematic session on inequalities in aging. Papers / abstracts will be accepted through midnight (EST) on January 31, 2015. The call for paper can be accessed at: Call for Papers process for the annual meeting. Please submit your work, and encourage your colleagues and students to do so by forwarding this announcement widely.
SSSP’S YOUTH, AGING, AND THE LIFE COURSE DIVISION GRADUATE STUDENT PAPER AWARD / CALL FOR PAPERS
The Youth, Aging, and the Life Course (YALC) Division of the Society for the Study of Social Problems (SSSP) invites graduate students to submit a paper to the Graduate Student Paper Award competition. The paper can be theoretical and/or empirical, and must be directly related to some aspect of scholarship on youth, aging, and the life course. Current graduate students and recent graduates (who received their degrees after January 2014) may submit a paper if it was written while a student. The paper must be unpublished, not accepted for publication, and not under review at the time of submission. Papers based on theses or dissertations are acceptable. Co-authored papers are also acceptable as long as all of the listed authors are current or recent graduate students; faculty and non-graduate student co-authors are not allowed. Students may submit to only one SSSP student paper award competition; submission to multiple SSSP award competitions will disqualify the paper. The award recipient is expected to present the winning paper at the 2015 SSSP Annual Meeting in Chicago, IL (August 21-23, 2015). To facilitate scheduling the presentation, the (lead) author is required to submit the paper through the Call for Papers process for the annual meeting. Regular submission through the Call for Papers process ensures that the winning paper can be placed on the program. The paper should be submitted to any Youth, Aging, and the Life Course-(co)sponsored session, or the roundtable organizer, by the January 31stdeadline, as well as e-mailed separately to the Division and Award Committee Chair as indicated below. The award recipient will be publicly announced at the Awards Ceremony and receive a plaque, a monetary prize of $100, a student membership to SSSP, and a SSSP conference registration. To have a paper considered for this award, please send an electronic copy of the paper and a cover letter that includes a brief overview of the paper and the context in which it was written, identifies the graduate program and status of all authors, certifies that the paper meets all of the criteria for the award, and provides the name and contact information of an adviser who is familiar with the (lead) author’s work to Andrew London at: anlondon@maxwell.syr.edu. The submission should: be no more than 30 double-spaced pages (including references and notes); use 12-point font; be double-spaced throughout; use one-inch margins; and be prepared for anonymous review, with the (lead) author specified only on the cover page and identifying references blinded.
MAGGIE KUHN AWARD
CALL FOR NOMINATIONS: Nominations are welcome for the Society for the Study of Social Problems (SSSP) Youth, Aging, and the Life Course Division’s Maggie Kuhn Award for Scholar-Activists. Maggie Kuhn was the founder of the Gray Panthers, an intergenerational social justice organization. The Maggie Kuhn award, established in 2014, is awarded to a scholar-activist who upholds the ideals of social and economic justice, and peace, for individuals of all ages in both their scholarship and service. These ideals include, but are not limited to, honoring age, intergenerational work, and scholarship and/or activism that promotes a humane society by putting the needs of people over profits, responsibility over power, and democracy over institutions. For more information or to nominate a scholar-activist, please e-mail Andrew S. London at: anlondon@maxwell.syr.edu.
The deadline for nominations is March 15, 2015
Dr. Eric R. Kingson and Dr. Nancy J. Altman’s new book is entitled “Social Security Works! Why Social Security Isn’t Going Broke and How Expanding It Will Help Us All,” published by The New Press, 2015.
An excerpt of the book can be found here and can be pre-ordered here.
