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Adjunct Instructor Wendy Schudrich successfully defended her PhD dissertation this week at Wurzweiler, thereby assuming the title of “Doctor.” The Faculty, Administration and Staff of Wurzweiler offer congratulations to Dr. Schudrich on this accomplishment.

August 30, 2012, New York, NY—Yeshiva University’s Wurzweiler School of Social Work will offer a new Certificate in Social Practice with the Military this fall. The American military engagement in Afghanistan and Iraq has lasted over a decade, and advances in medical technology and Kevlar armor…

Students enjoyed orientation and registration for Fall semester today at Wurzweiler School of Social Work. Included were students from various programs including full time, part time, joint MSW/PhD students and more.

Newly appointed Dean Carmen Ortiz Hendricks announced today that, as one of her first acts as Dean, she has tapped former Assistant Dean Dr. Jade Docherty as the new Associate Dean of Wurzweiler School of Social Work. Dr. Docherty joined Wurzweiler in 1990 after a career as Dean of Students and ...

Yeshiva University President Richard Joel announced today the appointment of Professor Carmen Ortiz Hendricks as the Dorothy and David I. Schachne Dean of the Wurzweiler School of Social Work. Please read the full article at the Yeshiva University news Blog here.

From UFT.ORG June 28, 2012 Starting her career in September 2011, White works at PS 536 at PS 102 in the Bronx, where she was elected chapter leader this June. What made you want to become a school social worker? This is my dream! I was parent coordinator for four years at a middle school but knew…

From "The Jewish Week", May 22, 2012 Roman Shmulenson, 34 Part of a Ukrainian-Jewish family that came to the U.S. in 1993, Roman Shmulenson made his first meaningful contact with the Jewish community while studying at a Brooklyn high school the next year. A social worker from the Jewish Board of ...

Wurzweiler School of Social Work concluded its fifty-third annual Diploma and Hooding Ceremony today, sending nearly sixty new MSW and PhD graduates into the world of social work to continue making a difference. The commencement speaker was Dr. William L. Pollard, MSW, PhD, president of Medgar…

From the Wall Street Journal, May 8, 2012 When Froma Benerofe went back to college later in life to become a social worker, she did so with the same motivation of a person decades younger: She wanted to help people heal. That motivation, drawn in part from the Jewish concept of tikkun olam, or to…

On Friday, March 30 th, Assemblymember Guillermo Linares held an event in honor of Women’s Month and 20 women where recognized with proclamations. Dean Carmen Ortiz Hendricks was one of the honorees. “Being recognized by the Washington Heights-Inwood community along with other prominent women ...