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Academic Resources

Your spot for academic resources, course descriptions, curricular information, sample syllabi, student handbooks, global opportunities, and more.

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Student Life

From living and working in one of America’s cradles of liberty to our landmark mentorship program for incoming students, learn all about life at SP2.

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Student Organizations

Student organizations at SP2 enhance and expand students’ educational opportunities through advocacy, service, and practice.

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Bringing social work to Penn’s community engagement

Tapping into his social work background to support and cultivate Penn’s relationship with the local community, Glenn Bryan, C’74, SW’76, has spent decades building connections between his alma mater and the place where he grew up.

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Tamara Cadet

SP2’s Dr. Tamara J. Cadet collaborates on Penn research awarded $6.5 million grant

As a co-investigator, SP2 Associate Professor Tamara J. Cadet will collaborate on UPenn PRC’s work with communities in the Philadelphia area to develop, test, and evaluate solutions to public health problems, with a particular focus on cancer.

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SP2 MSW alumni win Pennsylvania Society for Clinical Social Work awards 

Two recent graduates from the School of Social Policy & Practice Master of Social Work (MSW) Program are among this year’s winners of the Awards for Clinical Excellence given by the Pennsylvania Society for Clinical Social Work (PSCSW).