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$3 Million Grant Will Help Expand Social Welfare Workforce

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Award will enable UCLA Luskin to grow its master of social welfare program to help meet statewide needs for behavioral health care.
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Latest Cohort of 4 Activists-in-Residence Is Largest Ever

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UCLA's cityLAB joins program founders — Luskin Institute on Inequality and Democracy and Asian American Studies Center — as on-campus hosts.
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In Reparations Debate, UCLA Students Help Amplify Black Californians’ Voices

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Public policy students use tools of research to help shape history. "All I could think about was that I don’t want to disappoint our ancestors.”
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‘I Love the School’

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As interim dean at UCLA Luskin, Anastasia Loukaitou-Sideris is giving back to a university that's been ‘extremely good to me’ for 33 years.
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Taking 12th Grade Math Opens Doors to Higher Education, Research Finds

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UCLA-led study following nearly 27,000 L.A. Unified students yields insights that can help inform education policy.
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Professor Loukaitou-Sideris to Serve as Interim Dean of UCLA Luskin

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The urban planning scholar has been the School's associate dean since 2010 and has held a number of leadership positions at UCLA.
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Segura to Step Down as Dean, Remain on Faculty

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His six years leading the Luskin School has been marked by a deep commitment to equity, diversity and academic excellence
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Abrams and Boston University Dean Call for Social Workers to Use Knowledge for Change

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Research must wrestle with the root causes of social inequality and strive toward bettering people's lives, they write.
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Kal Penn on Working for Change in Hollywood and Politics

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The actor, author, public servant and UCLA alumnus shares his multilayered life story with a Luskin Lecture audience.
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Grant to Support Study of ‘Lifers’ Who Are Given a Second Chance

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Nationwide project led by Laura Abrams of UCLA Social Welfare will focus on people convicted of offenses committed when they were under 18.
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