College of Public and Community Service Newsletter February 2016
Committed to working for positive development in communities and workplaces
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UMass Boston Admissions Dates to Remember
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February 13, March 12, May 14, June 11
Saturdays, 9:00-11:30am
 
Transfer Open House
Wednesday, April 6, 4:00-7:00pm

Spring deadline for fall admission to our Master of Science in Human Services graduate program: June 1.
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Advance your career with program planning and management skills with a M.S.
in Human Services degree. 
Classroom Connect
The Capstone
Human Services students in a class discussion
The human services major has been carefully constructed to meet today's community and workforce needs. While completing their coursework, our students build professional experience for their resumes through our applied service-learning programs and a capstone. In the Policy and Practice class or the capstone, students are ready to "learn how to understand, analyze, and influence human services policies."
 
More: Students present their capstone presentations at the New England Organization for Human Services Annual Conference 
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Further Reading  
Recent faculty publications on contemporary issues
In the night-lights-city.jpg journals City and Urban Geography, Alan G. Wiig explores the smart city.

Excerpt: "This essay argues that the rhetoric of intelligent, transformative digital change works much more to "sell" a city in the global economy than to actually address urban inequalities."  
Ferguson and students in the Policy and Practice class
Healing Our Race-Linked Wounds  
Carroy U. Ferguson

Excerpts: "There is a race-linked wound in the human psyche that requires healing. It is an age-old wound that has been festering since human beings became aware of being aware."

"I grew up in the segregated South; I had to sit on the back of the bus; I was not allowed to go in the front doors of movie theaters; I was not allowed to eat in most restaurants; I had to use water fountains and bathrooms labeled "Colored." I lived in a very nurturing all-black community, which was right next to an all-white community. Indeed, I lived one block away from an all-white high school and had to be bussed all the way across town to attend an all-black high school. Whites and blacks did not enter each other's community space. As a young child growing up in such an environment, I was always curious as to why people "thought" the way they did. I wanted to understand the thinking behind the reality they had constructed... READ MORE »   
Faculty News   
Boston School Committee
Miren Uriarte at BSC swearing in Jan 2016
Congratulations to Professor Miren Uriarte on her four-year appointment to the Boston School Committee!

"I believe in using data, and evidence to make informed decisions about policy development. I'm looking forward to bringing these experiences to the School Committee, and working with a great team."

Pictured right at her official swearing in with Rahn Dorsey, Chief of Education for the City of Boston, Maureen Feeney, City Clerk, Mayor Marty Walsh and Michael D. O'Neill, BSC Chair. 
(photo credit: Don Harney, Mayor's Office)
 
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