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November 18, 2011
Dominican University appoints Charlie Stoops as acting dean of Graduate School of Social Work
River Forest, IL – Dominican University’s Graduate School of Social Work (GSSW) has appointed Dr. Charlie Stoops, LCSW, as acting dean for departing dean, Dr. Mark Rodgers. Dr. Stoops joined the school in 2003 and was serving as associate dean before his appointment. He continues as an associate professor in the school.
Stoops has been an innovator in the classroom, developing partnerships with the Chicago Coalition for the Homeless, Heartland Alliance, Sarah’s Inn and the State’s Attorneys Office to provide students with practical experience in real world program development and political advocacy. He has chaired the GSSW’s social welfare policy curriculum and developed a course on violence across the lifespan in the human behavior and social environment sequence.
Stoops’ research focuses on domestic violence, particularly men who batter. He is a founding member of the Center for Advancing Domestic Peace, Inc. (formerly the West Side Domestic Abuse Project, Inc.). Organized in 2004 as a community-based, nonprofit social service agency, the Center provides intervention services for men and women who use violence in domestic or intimate relationships. The Center serves over 400 participants each year at three locations on Chicago’s west side, southeast and southwest neighborhoods.
In 2010, Stoops received the Community Advocate of the Year Award from the Chicago Metropolitan Battered Women’s Network.
Stoops received his doctorate in social work from Jane Addams College of Social Work at the University of Illinois at Chicago.
Founded in 2001, Dominican’s Graduate School of Social Work is accredited by the Council on Social Work Education and offers students a unique globally focused, family centered program with a wide range of international field placement opportunities. For more information on the GSSW, please call (708) 366-3463 or visit www.dom.edu/gssw.
