Faculty and Staff Response to SSW SOCC’s “Expectations for Portland State University’s School of Social Work”
May 16, 2017
We, the undersigned faculty and staff, acknowledge the damage to students of color and all systemically targeted students and communities caused by the School of Social Work.
We recognize the repeated and continual naming of concerns by students of color and all systemically targeted students throughout the school's history and our lack of sustained attention to structural change. We regret that our past responses have been inadequate and have depended upon students of color and students from other historically targeted identities continually educating faculty and staff through the narration of their experiences and scars. We regret that in order for us to be moved to action, it required personal testimony to once more be shared.
We acknowledge all the students from intersections of historically targeted identities whom our programs have failed to support or retain due to institutional barriers, harassment, discrimination, and/or the resulting retaliation for speaking up against injustices. These students hold identities that include but are not limited to: poor and working class, sick and/or disabled, Queer/LGBTQ2S, gender nonconforming students, parents, students of color, and those who sit at multiple intersections of these identities.
We recognize and affirm the tremendous emotional, intellectual, spiritual, and physical labor of students across the School of Social Work devoted to creating this list of expectations. We see and hear the harm that we, individually and collectively, have caused both through our action and our inaction. Therefore, we commit to sustaining our own attention and labor in crafting and implementing a meaningful response and determining actions steps in a timely and inclusive manner.
Keva Miller, Associate Dean/SSW Faculty
Mary Oschwald, Regional Research Institute
Cimone Schwoeffermann, MSW Student Affairs Coordinator
Monica Parmley, SSW Faculty
Roxanne Dinca, SSW Staff
Katharine Cahn, SSW Faculty
Sara Lavender, SSW Staff
Katherine Kneupper, Seminar Instructor
Lisa Race, Adjunct Instructor
Alma Trinidad, SSW Faculty
Lisa Hawash, SSW Faculty
John Waddingham, SSW Staff
Ridley Williams, SSW Staff
Gita Mehrotra, SSW Faculty
Marina Barcelo, SSW Student Support & Inclusion Specialist
Anna Rockhill, Regional Research Institute
Staci Martin, Adjunct Instructor
Sarah Bradley, SSW Faculty
Shannon Turner, RRI Faculty
Katie Hayden-Lewis, Regional Research Institute
Missy Kloos, SSW Field Education Team
Lea Ann Holder SSW Faculty/CCF
Karen Moorhead SSW Faculty/CCF
Thet Mar Win, PhD and MSW Staff
Mandy Davis, Regional Research Institute
Stephanie Wahab, SSW Faculty
Ben Anderson-Nathe, CYFS Faculty, SSW
Sandy Leotti, RRI, Adjunct Instructor
Holly Hein, RRI Staff
Melissa Penners, BSW and CYFS Staff
Michael Taylor, SSW Faculty
Julie Kates, SSW Faculty
Kate Davis, Adjunct
Mindy Holliday, SSW Faculty
Katie Winters, Adjunct Instructor, RRI Senior Research Associate I
Michael Hulshof-Schmidt, Adjunct Faculty
Jill Hoffman, SSW Faculty
Hillary Hyde, SSW Faculty
Marty Lowrey, Program Director, CWP Workforce
Kate Constable, Undergraduate Advisor
Kevin Cherry, Adjunct Instructor
Michele Morales, SSW Faculty/DO Team
Fara Tucker, Adjunct Instructor
Eddie May, Assistant Director of Field/Distance Option Coordinator
Leah Brookner, SSW Faculty
Jennifer Robe, Undergraduate Advisor
Ericka Kimball, SSW Faculty
Matt Chorpenning, Adjunct Faculty
Erin Elizabeth Flynn, CYFS Faculty
Carrie Furrer, CCF Research Faculty
Miranda Cunningham, CYFS faculty
Brooke Rizor, SOCI
Andre Pruitt, Adjunct Faculty
Vicki Cotrell, SSW Faculty
Stephanie Bryson, BSW Program Director
Lisa Cordova, SSW Faculty
Meg Panichelli, Adjunct Instructor
Susie Snyder, Professor of Practice, Emeritus
Molly Oberweiser Kennedy, System of Care Institute (SOCI)
Dawn Williamson, Adjunct Instructor
Mathew Uretsky, SSW Faculty
Denise Grant, SSW Faculty
Monica Garcia Rueda, CYFS Faculty