100 years of solicitude
Photograph illustration by Erick Delgado
Year the Chicago School of Civics and Philanthropy (now the School of Social Service Administration) became the nation’s first to offer a two-year social-work program:
1908
Year Edith Abbott became the first female dean of a U.S. graduate school at the SSA:
1924
Issues of the Social Service Review printed since its 1927 launch:
328
Agencies where SSA students can get field placements:
600
Hours students spend in the field each year:
225,000
Communities that implemented professor emeritus Irving Spergel’s gang-violence reduction model through the U.S. Department of Justice:
6
Percentage violence decreased for 200 Little Village youth in a program based on Spergel’s model:
40
Total number of students graduated from the SSA:
10,540
Glass panes replaced in the SSA’s Mies van der Rohe–designed walls last summer:
158
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