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05/18/2024

Pursuing Their Dreams and Fulfilling Our Mission

The CESS Class of 2024 includes 200 undergraduate students and 138 graduate students across a range of academic pursuits. We are thrilled to celebrate our graduates' remarkable accomplishments and postgraduate plans reflecting a diverse assortment of pathways in education, social work, and...

Collage of 12 undergraduate and graduate students surrounding the UVM 2024 banner hung in front of Waterman Building.

05/15/2024

Transformative Social Work Book Depicts the Power of Curiosity, Mindfulness and Change

After packing her bags in whirwhind, Danielle Jatlow flew to Florida to visit her ailing grandmother. The 101-year-old woman she lovingly called Nana had been in excellent health. But Jatlow received word that her grandmother’s condition was deteriorating.  Upon arrival, Jatlow...

Danielle Jatlow smiling on the University Green

03/21/2024

UVM Partnership Program Grows Into Service Learning Course

UVM has fostered a partnership with the Center for Aging through the internship program Grand Friends. This program bridges the gap between students and the elderly to foster intergenerational learning and understanding by pairing UVM students with older adult volunteers. This has been a...

03/19/2024

Inspired to Serve

Growing up in Winooski, Vermont, Evelyn Monje dreamed of attending the University of Vermont as she went by campus on the way to school every day. Working as a youth camp counselor during the summer after her first year of high school, she began to discover what her true calling might be....

Evelyn Monje at her mobile social work desk at the South Burlington Public Library.

02/16/2024

Celebrating Accessible Art and Disability in Vermont with the CYCLES Exhibition

Building on the success of four prior exhibitions and a robust network of community partnerships, Inclusive Arts Vermont will be hosting a 5th annual exhibition, CYCLES, throughout 2024. CYCLES will highlight artwork by 25 Vermont artists with...

A pale-skinned college aged woman in a pink tshirt and white turtleneck gestures excitedly at a small framed painting of a supernova in reds and yellows on a black background.

09/22/2023

New Faculty Bring International Perspective and Vermont Expertise to UVM Social Work Programs

With their distinctive backgrounds and expertise, Dr. Simon Chan and Cassie Gillespie strengthen a strong core of internationally recognized scholar-researchers preparing UVM graduate and undergraduate students for transformative social work practice. “We’re truly delighted to expand...

Simon Chan and Cassie Gillespie

08/05/2023

Celebrating the CESS Class of 2023

We are thrilled to celebrate the success of our most recent graduates. Our students have made a profound impact on the wellbeing of others by immersing themselves in a wide range of community-engaged learning opportunities, practicums, internships, research projects, and other high-impact...

Collage of CESS Class of 2023 graduates

05/31/2023

Complexity, Curiosity and Creativity

At the College of Education and Social Services (CESS) Commencement Celebration for the Class of 2023, Senior Lecturer Emerita JB Barna delivered a poignant and powerful speech the audience will never forget. Spoken with the eloquence, grace and humanity that students and colleagues...

JB Barna speaks at the CESS Commencement Celebration

03/29/2023

Paying It Forward

Franky Bahati's youth mentoring experiences through the DREAM Program opened her mind to possibilities that changed the course of her life. “Being exposed to the UVM campus as a kid incited something inside that inspired me to...

Franky Bahati works with Winooski High School student

01/12/2023

UVM Appoints Katharine Shepherd as Dean of the College of Education and Social Services

The University of Vermont announced the appointment of Katharine Shepherd, Ed.D., as dean of the College of Education and Social Services (CESS) effective January 15. Shepherd is the Levitt Family Green and Gold Professor of Education who served as interim...

Katie Shepherd

11/07/2022

University Scholar Lecture Series - Jan Fook, Ph.D., FAcSS

The Graduate College is pleased to present An Accidental Academic Career?: Finding and sustaining meaning, a lecture by Professor Jan Fook to be held on Thursday, December 8, 2022, at 4:30 PM in Waterman Memorial Lounge (338). Lecture description: It has been important to me,...

09/24/2022

Social Work Professor Leads Research on Prevention and Treatment of Substance Use Disorders

For Dr. Jennifer Putney, the decision to join UVM and relocate to Vermont boiled down to the mission and the people. “I wholeheartedly believe in the mission and philosophy of the Department of Social Work as it is situated within the...

Jennifer Putney

08/18/2022

UVM Internship Partnership Develops Geriatric Social Workers to Support Aging Population

For second year Master of Social Work (MSW) intern Emily Mars Raymond, a new joint internship program offered by the UVM Center on Aging and the UVM Medical Center’s Memory Program was the perfect career building opportunity to fulfill her academic and career goals. It was a chance to build her...

Emily Mars Raymond, Jason Garbarino and Janet Nunziata

05/12/2022

Celebrating Student Success

The days leading up to and through Commencement are an exciting and rewarding time for students, families, friends, and loved ones. Students reflect on life-changing experiences, their struggles, and their achievements while appreciating those who made a difference along the way. ...

Molly Wagner, Ali House, Sandra King, and Taylor Mullen

05/10/2022

Social Work Cohort Fosters Trust, Knowledge, and Growth

Senior Grace Pease took a deep breath as she scanned her notes to share an intense encounter she experienced in the field.   She described a recent day at a social services organization where she works as an intern. As she spoke, her peers listened intently and could hear that...

Students in UVM's Class of 2022 Bachelor of Social Work (BSW) cohort on the front steps of Waterman Building.