09-22-94 Tripodi to Head Social Work

TONY TRIPODI TO BE NEW HEAD OF SOCIAL WORK

     COLUMBUS -- Tony Tripodi, currently professor and associate
director of the Department of Social Work at Florida
International University, has been nominated to head the social
work program at The Ohio State University.

     Richard Sisson, senior vice president for academic affairs
and provost, announced Thursday (9/22) that he will recommend
Tripodi's appointment to President E. Gordon Gee and the
university's Board of Trustees.  Subject to board approval,
Tripodi will begin his duties Jan. 1.

     As part of the overall restructuring of Ohio State,
discussion is now under way in various university committees on a
proposal to reorganize the College of Social Work as a school.
Tripodi would become director of the newly configured School of
Social Work.

     He will replace Beverly Toomey, who has been serving as
acting dean since July 1993.  Toomey will resume her faculty
position as a professor of social work.

     "I am very pleased to nominate Tony Tripodi as director of
the social work programs at Ohio State," Sisson said.  "He has an
outstanding record of achievement as a scholar and teacher and as
an administrator in social work education, and I am firmly
convinced that under his leadership, the social work program at
Ohio State will continue to move forward."

     The College of Social Work has approximately 600 students
and 30 regular faculty members.  It offers the Bachelor of Social
Work, Master of Social Work and Doctor of Philosophy degrees.

     Since 1992, Tripodi, 61, has been at Florida International
University, where he serves as associate director, coordinator of
Ph.D. programs and professor in the Department of Social Work.
>From 1987 to 1992, he was associate dean for academic affairs and
professor in the School of Social Work at the University of
Pittsburgh.  For 21 years previous to that, he was a member of
the faculty at the University of Michigan School of Social Work.
Earlier in his career, he also taught at the University of
California, Berkeley, and at Columbia University.

     Tripodi's teaching specialization is in research methods and
applications.  He has also taught in the areas of crime and
delinquency, clinical judgment, and social welfare.  He is the
author of 14 books and the editor of six others.  In addition, he
has written numerous research articles, chapters, book reviews
and monographs.  His most recent publications include A Primer on
Single-Subject Design for Clinical Social Workers, and (with
others) Involuntary Clients in Social Work Practice, A Research
Based Approach and Direct Practice Research in Human Service
Agencies.

     Tripodi is a consultant to the Zancan Foundation of Padova,
Italy; a member of the National Research Advisory Committee of
Boysville of Michigan; a member of the board of visitors of Clark
Atlanta University; and an editorial board member of three
professional journals.

     He earned his doctoral degree in social work from Columbia
University in 1963, and his bachelor's and master's degrees in
social work from the University of California, Berkeley in 1954
and 1958.

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Contact: Richard Sisson, senior vice president for academic
affairs and provost, (614) 292-5881.


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