^MM AUGUST 1992 BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY THE HELLER SCHOOL Master's in Management of Human Services The Heller School Brandeis University P.O. box 9110 Waltham, MA 02254-9110 617-736-3800 617-736-3009 TTY/TDD BRANDEIS UNIVERSITY The Florence Heller Graduate School for Advanced Studies in Social Welfare Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2010 with funding from Boston Library Consortium IVIember Libraries http://www.archive.org/details/hellerschoolfors199293bran Contents Page The Mission ofthe Heller School 4 A Message from the Dean 5 Academic Calendar 6 The Educational Programs 8 Ph.D. Program in Social Policy 9 Master's Program in Management 11 ofHuman Services Courses ofInstruction 14 Courses in Specialized Areas 21 Social Policy Centers and 26 Institutes: Research Activities Faculty and Research Staff 31 Academic Policies 36 Financial Information 39 General Information 42 Admission Procedures 45 Officers ofInstruction 47 Research Staff 48 Professors Emeriti 48 Officers of Administration 49 Board ofOverseers 49 THE MISSION OF THE HELLER SCHOOL The School develops, transmits anddisseminatesknowledgecon- The mission of the Heller cerning social institutions and School is to develop new values and their impact on knowledge and insights in the human development. It field of social policy and to examines policiesandprocesses educate students as managers, aimed at reducing and over- teachers, researchers and policy comingobstaclestohumanwell- analysts. The mission is based being. Studentsandresearchers on a commitment to develop apply insights from the natural policies and management and social sciences and social techniques to help assure a welfare issues to understand decent quality of life for all humanproblemsandtoimprove human beings, especially those domesticaswellasinternational whoareaged,poor,disabled,or social conditions. in other ways lack the capacity orresources tosecure theirown Research and education at the well-being. To accomplish the Heller School focuses on mission, the School emphasizes scholarly analysis and practical social policy analysis (a solutions emphasizing policies multidisciplinary search for concerning aging, physical and solutions to complex social mental health, income security, problems) and the management work, familiesandchildren,and ofhuman services. social change. The School's commitment to the changing Brandeis University established needs of disadvantaged The Florence Heller Graduate individualsand social groups is School for Advanced Studies in reflected in research and study Social Welfare in 1959 to ofminorities, women, children, provideprofessionaleducationin the elderly, the unemployed, the field of social welfare and mentally and physically social policy. From the handicapped persons and begirming, a doctoral program individuals involved in the has educated students for criminaljustice system. These scholarship, teaching, research, priorities change within the social planning, administration School depending on available andpolicyanalysis. Since1977, resources and the broad social amaster'sprogramhasprepared welfare context. managersforthehumanservices in public and private organizations. Approved by the HellerFaculty February 18, 1986 AMESSAGEFROMTHEDEAN Many ofthe Ph.D. alumni ofthe and advocacy groups employ our last five years with their graduates and the growing interest Unchanging, since its inception in backgrounds in policy analysis, andexpansioninhomecareservices 1959,istheHellerSchool'sattempt research, computer and evaluation has been a new and important to develop an educational and skills havebeen sought out by the sourceforjobs. Alumnicoordinate researchenvironmentthataddresses higher education community, by and purchase services or manage the major social issues ofits time government agencies and by personnel for home care delivered and to educate a group of independent sector groups. These from hospitals, local agencies and individuals who could be true recentHelleralumni,oftenwiththe largeseniorserviceproviders. Day leaders in seeking to better the rank ofassociateprofessor, are at careisyetanothersourceofjobs— personalandsocialconditionsofall schools ofsocial work and related particularlychildcare. Educational Americans. university departments throughout institutionsalsoprovideemployment the country and in Canada, Israel in college administration and in Over the years, the School has and even Zambia. Others are in residential type schools for special addedandredesignedcoursesto fit research and administrative populations. Theexploding the changing social issues and capacities at universities, including interest in employee benefits fmds research technologies, and schoolsofnursingandotherhealth alumni in insurance, high tech, reassessed and improved careeducationalschools. Asmaller hospitals and benefits consulting specialization areas — always with group ofalumni focus on research firms where, oftenbased in human thedeterminationtomaintainstrong in university research centers, resource divisions, they focus on policy and management-oriented government and think tanks. cost containment, benefits and educationalprograms. Attheheart Alumni continue to find jobs in contract compliance. Overall, the of these programs is a core of traditionalserviceorganizationsand flowofmanagementgraduatesinto dedicated full-time faculty with private foundations. Others both profit and nonprofit jobs is supplemented by a group of havemoved intotheprivatesector, apparent, particularly as the skill outstandingadjunctfaculty. frequently in health and long-term requirements grow to be much care. So,whiletraditionalagencies alike. To further add breadth to the and institutions continue to hold educationalexperienceatHellerare open the door for ourgraduates, a Today, the Heller School realizes themorethan fifty researchersand Heller doctoral degreeis not static that few majorsocial problemscan the research centers dealing with: and our alumni have a growing be solved without developing aging;health;mentalhealth;mental presencein all areasthat dealwith programs that link pubhc and retardation; human resources; thewell-beingofsociety. private sectors. Thus, the School families and children; youth, strives to focus educational educationandwork initiatives; and Recent alumni in the newerofour programs in a way to understand social change. These centers are educationprograms—theMasterin and build on the strengths of especiallyimportanttotheeducation ManagementofHuman Services — publicly financed and administered and research opportunities for continue to gravitate towards programs, and to study the students andkeep us at the cutting management positions in state and appropriatehnkagesbetweenpublic edgeofpoUcy issues. As each of local government and in social programs and privately financed ourmorethan1000alumniassumes welfare agencies. While budget human services. It is particularly an important role in the social crunches have affected this area in rewarding therefore to know that welfare arena, the impact of this theshortrun,thosesocialproblems throughourever-growingnetwork. uniqueeducationgrows. will not go away and must receive HellerSchoolalumnicontinuetobe theactiveattentionofgovernmentat successful in securing interesting For those of you contemplating a every level. Alumni continue to and relevantjobs. Hellereducation, it is importantto work in various agencies, ask,whathasbeentheeffectofthe particularly welfare, mental health current Heller climate and where and human services. They deal areourmorerecentalumni finding most often with budgets, cost EC^^fe^ jobs? Often it takes several years containment, capital planning or jSL for professionals to find the right directing special projects. Several niche, yet evena mosaic ofrecent foreign students have returned to StuartH. Altman jobsreinforcesthebeliefthatHeller governmentjobs in China, Egypt, DeanandSol C. ChaikinProfessor alumni are important players in Jordan, South Africa, Israel and ofNationalHealthPolicy socialwelfare. Canada. Direct service providers ACADEMIC CALENDAR 1992-1993 Mon., Aug. 31 Ph.D. Orientation Mon., Oct. 19 Shmini Atzeret, No Classes Tues., Sept. 1, PolicyAnalysisSeminar Wed., Sept. 2 for Entering Ph.D. Thurs., Nov. 26, Thanksgiving,NoClasses, students Fri., Nov. 27 StaffHoliday Thurs., Sept. 3 FirstDayofInstruction Mon., Dec. 14 LastDayofInstruction Fri., Sept. 4 Registration (1st day). Fri., Dec. 18 All work for spring term HellerRm.220,9:15am- 1992 incompletes due to 1:00pm&2:00-4:30pm instructors Faculty: Grades due for Wed., Dec. 30 FACULTY: FALL 1992 SummerSessionII GRADES DUE Mon., Sept. 7 Labor Day, No Classes, Tues., Jan. 5 Economic Perspectives StaffHoliday QualifyingExamination Tues., Sept. 8 Registration (2nd day), Wed., Jan. 6 Political Perspectives DreitzerGallery,Spingold QualifyingExamination Theater, 9:15am-l:00pm Thurs., Jan. 7 Sociological Perspectives Thurs., Sept. 17 Late Registration, Heller QualifyingExamination Rm. 220, 2:00-4:30pm Mon., Jan. 18 Martin Luther King Day, Fri., Sept. 18 Last day to add a course StaffHoliday orchangeaudittocredit Tues., Jan. 19 First Day of Classes, Mon., Sept. 28, RoshHashanah,Noclasses SpringTerm 1993 Tues. Sept. 29 Date: TBA Registration Fri., Oct. 2 Brandeis Tuesday TuesdayClassSchedulein Mon., Feb. 15 President's Day, Classes Effect. Lastdaytodropa inSession, StaffHoliday course orchange credit to audit Mon. -Fri. MidtermRecess, No Mar. 8-12 UniversityExercises Tues., Oct. 6 Brandeis Friday - Friday Class ScheduleinEffect Tues.-Tues. NoUniversityExercises, Wed., Oct. 7 YomKippur, No Classes Apr. 6-13 Passover& Easter Thurs., Oct. 8 Brandeis Monday Mon., Apr. 19 Patriot's Day, Classes in MondayClassSchedulein Session, StaffHoliday Effect Tues., May4 LastDayofInstruction Fri., Oct. 9 Brandeis Tuesday TuesdayClassSchedulein Sun., May23 Commencement Effect Tues., May25 Allspringtermgradesare Mon., Oct. 12 ColumbusDay/Sukkot,No due in the Registrar's Classes, StaffHoliday Office Tues., Oct. 13 BrandeisMonday-Monday Class ScheduleinEffect Major Religious Holy Days Involvingthe Christian andJewishCalendarsDuring 1992-93 FallTerm The Educational Programs The Heller School offers a Aging Ph.D. in Social Welfare Policy andaMasterin Managementof Human Services (M.M.H.S). The Ph.D. Program prepares Children, Youth and students for advanced positions Families in teaching, administration, policyanalysisandresearch. The Master'sProgram educates Health Policy graduates for middle- and upper-level managementcareers in public, private and nonprofit humanservices organizations. Human Resources The Heller School is organized around a number ofsubstantive policyareas thatenablestudents to study in a milieu ofongoing policy analysis and research. Mental Health The major substantive areas of concentration, which are listed below, are supported by the projects ofthe various research Mental Retardation and centers and specialized training Development Disabilities programs. Social Change