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CWRU'S HOKENSTAD RECEIVES CSWE LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD

CLEVELAND—M.C. "Terry" Hokenstad, the Ralph S. and Dorothy P. Schmitt Professor at Case Western Reserve University's Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences, has been named winner of the 2002 Significant Lifetime Achievement in Social Work Education award from the Council on Social Work Education (CSWE).

Hokenstad will receive the award Sunday, February 24 at the council's annual program meeting in Nashville.

"I am extremely honored to be receiving this award." Hokenstad said. "I care very deeply about furthering social work education in the United States and abroad, and it is gratifying to be recognized by the most important national organization in social work education."

Grover C. "Cleve" Gilmore, interim dean of the Mandel School, said, "As a teacher, an advocate for social work, and a colleague, I can think of no one more deserving of this award than Terry. His presence is a major reason why the Mandel School has been a leader in the field of social work education, nationally and internationally."

Hokenstad came to the Mandel School in 1974 as dean, a position he held until 1983 when he assumed the Schmitt chair. From 1985 -1987 he served as editor-in-chief of the International Social Work Journal, and from 1986-1989 he was president of the CSWE. In that position he directed an overhaul of the council's policymaking structure and stabilized the organization's budget. Earlier he served on the CSWE's board of directors. In 1994 he was named professor of international health at the CWRU School of Medicine.

Before coming to CWRU Hokenstad directed the School of Social Work at Western Michigan University. He has also served as a Fulbright Research Scholar at the Institute of Applied Social Research in Oslo, Norway, and a senior Fulbright lecturer at Stockholm University.

Hokenstad has been active in both international social work education and issues concerning aging. He has been president of the North American and Caribbean region of the International Association of Schools of Social Work (IASSW), and treasurer and membership secretary of IASSW. Currently he is a consultant to the United Nations and a member of the U.N. Technical Committee for the Second World Assembly on Aging, which will convene in April in Madrid. He has led delegations of social workers and social work educators to China, Japan, Russia, and South Africa.

He has written numerous journal articles and is the co-author of five books, including most recently, Issues in International Social Work: Challenges for a New Century (NASW Press, 1997).

A native of Nebraska, Hokenstad received his B.A. from Augustana College in Sioux Falls, S.D., a master's degree in social work from the Columbia University School of Social Work, and a Ph.D. from the Florence Heller Graduate School for Advanced Studies in Social Welfare at Brandeis University. He is listed in Who's Who in America and Who's Who in the World. He lives in Shaker Heights.

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