Dean Sally Bachman

#PennSP2 is #8 in U.S. News & World Report’s 2024 rankings for Schools for Social Work — our highest ranking ever and the second time that the School has appeared in the list’s top 10! 🎉 sp2.upenn.edu/sp2-ranked-8-a…

Douglas M. Brooks, MSW, a nationally recognized leader in HIV and health care policy and advocacy, as well as a senior leadership fellow at #PennSP2, will deliver the School’s 2024 Commencement speech on 5/18. Learn more from Dean Bachman's message: sp2.upenn.edu/sp2-announces-…

Join #PennSP2 virtually on 10/19 at 1:00 p.m. EST for “Climate Refugees: The Implications of our Changing Environment,” the first event of the 2023-2024 SP2 Speaker Series. Hosted by @BenJealous with SP2 faculty @rjisungpark and @alice_z_xu. sp2.upenn.edu/sp2-event/sp2-…

Congratulations to #PennSP2 student Sandhya Rani Jha! Sandhya was announced today as one of 15 2023 Presidential PhD Fellows @Penn. Each Fellow receives a 3-year fellowship, including tuition, fees, insurance, research funds, and an annual stipend. bit.ly/3FkibdJ

Congrats to #PennSP2’s @ChaoGuo1, one of Penn's five Ivy Plus Provost Leadership Fellows! He will participate in an institute of @faculty_network, a consortium of 12 universities collaborating to advance diversity & inclusion. @upenn_npl @ARNOVA almanac.upenn.edu/articles/ivy-p…

Congratulations to #PennSP2’s Penn Integrates Knowledge University Professor @DrDesmondPatton, who is among five Penn experts elected to the prestigious @theNAMedicine. Election is one of the nation’s highest honors in health and medicine. penntoday.upenn.edu/news/five-penn…

In the low-wage labor market, including the fast-food sector, an increased minimum wage often results in a rise in employment, according to a new study in @RevEconStudies coauthored by #PennSP2's @mioana. sp2.upenn.edu/study-increasi…

Millan AbiNader of @PennSP2 discusses what it means to be a macro social worker, her advocacy and research on gender-based violence and intimate-partner violence, and the kinds of systems that can create barriers for people to find healing and change. bit.ly/3ryKMZy

Examining air conditioning as a necessity in the face of climate change, @washingtonpost cites a study on the negative impact of heat on learning coauthored by #PennSP2’s @rjisungpark. It shows U.S. students learning 10% less each year on average by 2050. washingtonpost.com/style/of-inter…

@PennSP2 Proud to be part of this effort. Using data & real time info, we can help policy makers & leaders make better decisions in helping economically challenged individuals improve their lives & escape the grip of poverty. Poverty is stopping us from reaching our true potential! #PEEP

As part of #PennSP2's Center for Public Service & Policy led by @Michael_Nutter, a survey about economic mobility and challenges will arrive in approximately 24K randomly selected city mailboxes this fall from the Philadelphia Economic Equity Project. sp2.upenn.edu/24k-philadelph…

Discussing a move to consider mergers' impact on workers, Bloomberg Law cites a paper cowritten by #PennSP2’s @mioana, MSSP Program director, as an example of scarce data on “the correlation between labor market concentration and labor law violations.” news.bloomberglaw.com/antitrust/anti…

In @NewYorker, Dennis Culhane of @PennSP2 explains how to end modern homelessness, comparing the cost of providing supportive and subsidized housing to the $11 billion expense of allowing homelessness to continue. bit.ly/3PEP3nB

Extreme heat is detrimental to learning — and research coauthored by #PennSP2's @rjisungpark estimates that air conditioning in schools could prevent PSAT score gaps of up to 7 percent and $1,060 in future earnings loss per student. #ClimateWeekatPenn wired.com/story/extreme-…

It’s #ClimateWeekatPenn! This week, events across campus will highlight the many ways the @Penn community is working to understand and combat the climate crisis. 🌎 🌱 @GreenPenn

In @NewYorker, Dennis Culhane of @PennSP2 explains how to end modern homelessness, comparing the cost of providing supportive and subsidized housing to the $11 billion expense of allowing homelessness to continue. bit.ly/3PEP3nB

“We believe that social policy & practice are effective tools to advance strategies to mitigate, anticipate, & respond to the human dimensions of environmental injustices.” – @SP2DeanBachman, Collaborating on Climate & Health: A Discussion with Deans. #PennSP2 #ClimateWeekatPenn

Hear environmental and labor economist @rjisungpark, an assistant professor at #PennSP2 with a secondary appointment at Wharton, present his cutting-edge research in five minutes or less at Wharton Climate Prof, 9/20 @ 5:51 p.m. EST on campus. climateweek.provost.upenn.edu/event/wharton-…

“The problems I look at are not simple; they are not siloed. You need an interdisciplinary approach," says #PennSP2 Assistant Professor @millanabinader of her research on supporting survivors of gender-based violence. @GBVresearchgrp @PennInjury sp2.upenn.edu/working-to-und…

The PhD in Social Welfare Program co-directed at #PennSP2 by @yoosun_p and @cadet_tamara no longer requires GRE General Test scores of applicants. At 9/19 and 10/10 online info sessions, staff will answer questions about the program's benefits. sp2.upenn.edu/phd-in-social-…