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Faculty at SHS San Diego

Full-time faculty at SHS San Diego:


William T. Oswald

Bill is currently an Associate Professor of Human Services. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Rhode Island in 1988 where he studied Community Psychology. He began working with the School of Human Services in 1989. After serving as a faculty member and as Academic Coordinator for the Manchester, New Hampshire campus, Bill moved to California where he opened the San Diego campus in 1996. Two years later he opened the Los Angeles/Inglewood campus. Prior to working with Springfield College, Bill worked for many years as a community organizer/educator. His work included serving as lead organizer for Workers Association for Guaranteed Employment, Executive Director of the Foundation for Community Organization in Rhode Island, and Director of Community Development for Tenants United for Public Housing Progress in Boston. Bill’s primary areas of interest are in poverty/economic justice, organizational and community development and cultural diversity. In addition to his work at Springfield College, he works with several community organizations and agencies providing technical assistance.

Ross Talarico

Associate Professor of Human Services/Coordinator of Writing Across the Curriculum, is an award-winning author and educator. His books include SPREADING THE WORD: POETRY AND THE SURVIVAL OF COMMUNITY IN AMERICA (Duke Univ. Press), which was awarded The Mina P. Shaughnessy Prize from the Modern Language Association for "outstanding book of the year on literature, language and the teaching of writing." He also won The Lillian Fairchild Award for literary achievement and has been featured as an innovative educator on The Today Show, NPR's Weekend Edition, and the U.S. Congressional Quarterly's Governing Magazine. He has presently been named Langston Hughes Poet/Scholar by the Hall Institute of Humanities at the University of Kansas, and works with minorities in creating narratives from the oral histories of ordinary people. His work has been published in hundreds of magazines and journals, among them The Atlantic, Arts & Letters, The Nation, Poetry, The North American Review The American Poetry Review, and others. Besides communication courses and literature courses, Ross teaches Creative Writing for Social Change at Springfield College in San Diego.

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SHS employs full-time faculty who are responsible for teaching, service, and scholarship. The SHS practice-oriented curriculum also includes contributions from part-time faculty who are directly involved in agency and community work. The result is that SHS has a faculty with the flexibility, resources and expertise required to address academics as well as new developments in human services practice and delivery.

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