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5 unusual facts about Columbia University School of Social Work


Cloward–Piven strategy

Cloward and Piven were a married couple who were both professors at the Columbia University School of Social Work.

Columbia University School of Social Work

Known for her association with the Weather Underground, she was convicted in 1984 of felony murder for her participation in an armed robbery that resulted in the killing of two police officers and a security guard.

Winona Cargile Alexander (1893-1984), a founder of Delta Sigma Theta, in 1915 was the first African American accepted to the New York School of Philanthropy.

It is also the nation’s oldest, with roots extending back to 1898, when the New York Charity Organization Society’s first summer course was announced in The New York Times.

Kathy Boudin, adjunct assistant professor and Director of the Criminal Justice Initiative.



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