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PhD Alumni

Eonju Park, PhD ('09), has been appointed to a post-doctoral position in the Korean Women's Institute at one of Korea's leading universities, Ewha Women's University in Seoul.


Dean Tan

Ngoh-Tiong Tan, PhD ('88), has been named the Dean, School of Human Development and Social Services at the Singapore Institute of Management, better known as UniSIM. He will oversee graduate programs in social work and counseling as well as undergraduate programs in social work, counseling, human resources, and child education. Prof. Tan was a tenured Professor at Augsburg College before he joined UniSIM.  He spent 17 years at the National University of Singapore's Department of Social Work. Over the years, he has been a visiting scholar at Harvard University, Cambridge University, UC Berkeley, Oslo University and Sydney University. He has extensive experience and research in social work, social enterprise, dispute and conflict resolution, parenting and community mediation, dynamics of change and crisis and disaster management. 


Prof. Haj-Yahia

Muhammad M. Haj-Yahia, PhD ('91), has been awarded the University of Minnesota's 2009 Distinguished Leadership for Internationals Award. Prof. Haj-Yahia holds the Gordon Brown Chair in Social Work at the Paul Baerwald School of Social Work at The Hebrew University in Jerusalem. He is the world's leading scholar on family violence in the Arab communities of Israel and Palestine. He will receive the award and speak at the University this Fall on Tuesday, October 6th from 5-7pm in the Campus Club, UMN Coffman Memorial Union - more to come soon.

 

 
Dr. Amy Hewitt

Amy Hewitt (PhD '98) has worked for the Research and Training Center for Community Living, Institute for Community Integration at the University of Minnesota.  She is a Senior Research Associate and Director of Interdisciplinary Training.  Amy serves as Principal Investigator and/or Co-Principal Investigator or Director on several research, evaluation and/or demonstration grants.  Current projects totaling $2,948,253 include (1) RTC on Community Living - NIDDR, DOE, (2) College of Direct Support/Frontline Supervision and Management- external contract, (3) National Resource Center on the Direct Support Workforce-DHHS/CMS, (4)University of California Berkeley CDSN technical assistance grant, and (5) Alaska DD Council and UCEDD technical assistance training project.

Amy is an international leader in the field of developmental disabilities and is one of the country’s foremost experts in disability workforce issues. She is a guest /contributing/consulting editor for the Journal of Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities, ANCOR Links (An ANCOR publication of private provider practice and federal policy issues, the President’s Committee on Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities, and the Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities journal. She is a longstanding Board Member for the Arc Greater Twin Cities, Inc. Read more about Dr. Hewitt. 

 Rosemary Link
Assoc. VP Rosemary Link

Rosemary Link, PhD ('86), has accepted the position of Associate Vice President of Academic Affairs at Simpson College in Des Moines, Iowa. Previously, Rosemary was a professor in the Social Work Department and Dean of the Graduate School at Augsburg College. Rosemary's e-mail address is Rosemary.Link@Simpson.edu.