Sharon E. Milligan, PhD

Classes I Teach:

• SASS 532 Needs Assessment and Program Evaluation
• SASS 470 Introduction to Social Policy

Scholarly Interests:

• Urban Poverty
• Evaluation of Neighborhood Change Inititatives
• Systems Change Research

How I Chose This Profession:
 
I became a social worker because I was curious about how to make social change happen at the local level. Social work was a means by which I could gain the knowledge to understand and could practice change strategies.

Interesting Links:

• Center on Urban Poverty and Community Development
• Poverty Center papers and reports, housed at Digital Case, Kelvin Smith Library’s storehouse of academic papers.
• NEO CANDO, Northeast Ohio Community and Neighborhood Data for Organizing, is a free and publicly accessible social and economic data system of the Center on Urban Poverty and Community Development

Ph.D., University of Pittsburgh
MSW, University of Illinois at Chicago
MPH, University of Pittsburgh
BA., Spelman College