In his academic career, Taylor specialized in training for social work, founding the University of Chicago School of Social Service Administration in 1903.
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Breckinridge worked with Vassar College graduate and social reformer Julia Lathrop, social gospel minister Graham Taylor (founder of the settlement house, Chicago Commons) and others to create the Chicago School of Civics and Philanthropy, becoming its first (and only) dean.