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The technology, an initiative of the college’s Atrévete Center of Excellence for Latinx/Hispanic Social Work Practice, features actors from Providence-based theater Teatro ECAS, who roleplay as clients, as well as two clinicians who roleplay as social workers.
Our research demonstrates that there are serious downsides to the “customer is king” approach. It creates a toxic atmosphere that makes sexual harassment more likely and puts employees in a no-win situation when facing hostility.
Bold promises of sustainable jobs and increased purchasing power have evaporated into austerity measures that spare only the wealthy.
Some people believe conspiracy theories that are contrary to evidence. Recent research found 8.9% of New Zealand participants and 10.1% of Australian participants agreed with the (false) claim fluoride is being intentionally added to the water supply by the government to make people less intelligent and easier to control. What draws people to conspiracies like these?
From across the darkness of the GM lot, a soft wind blew. Someday soon, the data center may come. Humming, calculating, concocting deepfakes, writing college essays, chatting with the lonely and pulling us away from each other minute by minute, it is perhaps the best the architects of the modern economy can—or will—do for a growing number of American communities. It seems that way in Janesville, where Zoxx Social Club will be paved over, sealing in stone a simple promise: there will be no more life on the old General Motors site.
Hundreds of people at the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have received layoff notices, and work at many federal laboratories has been suspended.
From left, Jamie Tester Morfoot, Associate Professor of Social Work; Dr. Nicholas Smiar, Professor Emeritus of Social Work; and Dr. Lisa Quinn-Lee, Professor and Chair of Social Work. “In the room, we saw genuine connections and a legacy that spans generations and continents. From local initiatives to international partnerships, his work has quietly transformed lives,” Quinn-Lee says of Smiar’s legacy.
