Domestic violence expert and UC Berkeley alumnus Jeffrey Edleson will return to campus as the dean of the School of Social Welfare in August.
Edleson has been on the faculty of the University of Minnesota for 29 years, serving as a professor and as director of research for the university’s School of Social Work.
“I’m excited to come back and work with a group of colleagues that are world-famous for their work in social policy and practice,” Edleson said. “I’m excited to try and develop the next generation of scholars and teachers.”
The appointment concludes a yearlong national search. Sam Davis, an emeritus professor of architecture at the UC Berkeley College of Environmental Design, has served as interim dean for the past academic year.
Edleson was recently appointed to the National Institute of Justice’s Scientific Review Panel on Family Violence and Violence Against Women as well as appointed by U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder to the National Advisory Committee on Violence Against Women.
“Jeff has been an excellent scholar as well as an excellent citizen for our School and for the University of Minnesota,” said Director of the University of Minnesota School of Social Work James Reinardy in a statement to faculty, staff and students. “I, in particular, will miss his counsel and the leadership he has provided most recently as our director of research.”
As a student, Edleson received his bachelor’s degree at UC Berkeley and then earned his master’s and doctorate in social work from the University of Wisconsin, Madison. He is also the author of over 120 articles and 12 books, including the “Sourcebook on Violence Against Women” and the “Encyclopedia of Interpersonal Violence.”
Edleson will be leading a school that is nationally and internationally ranked among the top schools for social work graduate programs.
“What we’ve found in Jeffrey is a rare combination of exceptional scholarship, outstanding leadership and unshakable commitment to making a difference in the lives of women, children and families,” said Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost George Breslauer in a June 21 press release. “We’re thrilled he’s agreed to return to Berkeley to lead the School of Social Welfare.”
As dean of the school, Edleson hopes to continue improving the institution and is eager to begin collaborating with Berkeley community.
“I’m most excited to work with a great group of students, faculty, staff and community on the big issues that face our society, that are really central to the quality of people’s lives,” Edleson said. “I think that’s what social welfare is about.”
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What does the hiring of Edleson have to do with your version of the current political system–”creating a distraction”–really?
[Ah. I see. So what the school should have done is to check every
person's background and hire a gypsy to foresee the future of that
student before awarding the degree.]
Attempts to derail the topic or divert attention from crucial facts are common tactics of those who know they can’t win the discussion. What part of “posthumous” do you not understand?
This is the same school of Social Welfare that awarded a posthumous degree to some loca who killed herself and her own child by getting in a car with some pendejo who was close to 3x over the limit for legal intoxication, right?
So?
I guess you’re not sharp enough to figure out that such behavior isn’t a sterling example of “social welfare” in action.
So let me get this straight: if a student from that specific school got into a car accident, then it must be the whole school’s curriculum’s fault. Got it. It took an engineer (Tony M) to come up with that. Genius.
Your willful ignorance is apparent for all to see. If we accept the premise that “social welfare” has to do with working in the best interest of the subjects of such attention, then any school that would award an honorary degree to someone who jeopardized the life of a child would be acting in complete defiance of that principle. But go ahead and leave critical information out of the discussion, if distortion and omission of facts are the only way you can win an argument.
Ah. I see. So what the school should have done is to check every person’s background and hire a gypsy to foresee the future of that student before awarding the degree. After all, if one person dies, it must mean the whole school is a joke. Got it. Berkeley, you should learn from all other perfect schools that Tony M would recommend.
Gee, Tony considering Spring 12 degrees haven’t been awarded yet, and Milanca was a Summer intended graduate, just how has a posthumous degree been awarded? As usual tony, don’t let the facts get in the way of your hate.
Wow, this article consists of nothing but mindless buzzwords, posturing, and kowtowing to public opinion WRT identity/gender politics.
The failure of the American left over a 30 year period is described thusly: put aside populist economic concerns and embrace identity wedge issues. This has contributed greatly to the economic/wealth inequality in our nation, and has enabled the rise of a plutocracy. A handful of wealthy, connected persons have co-opted the political system to their own economic advantage while Edleson and his ilk create a distraction by pretending to give a shit about women and/or minorities. It’s sad, really.
As opposed to conservatives who openly admit they don’t give a shit about women and minorities.
Oh look, it’s Carlos, back to peddle another one of his guilt trips on us. Why don’t you ask how well all those women and minorities are doing under your hero Obama’s presidency? Black and hispanic unemployment is approaching double digits in this state, but you still want to blame the Evil Nasty Conservative Bogeyman (TM) for all the problems of the world. Grow up.