Amanda Aykanian, PhD
@aykanian
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My friends call me Mrs. Mantzoukas. Homelessness researcher and social work educator. Assistant Professor @UBSSW. Tweets my own.
Buffalo, NY
Joined August 2011
We just released the first findings from our national survey of the U.S. homeless services workforce. Check it out here:
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RT @mwfrancis1: Open rank #SocialWork faculty position at VCU--come work with me! I'm happy to chat with anyone about the culture and commu…
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RT @GCSocialWork: ICYMI: Check out the October edition of our monthly newsletter, UP!, at UP! features the latest i…
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Another troubling reflection about racism and racial bias experienced by a Black woman faculty member in a school of social work...
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Never have I ever learned so much about Colonial America, the Civil War, and Reconstruction than when I had to teach my class about them…
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RT @dmlittman: How can social work academia shift to embrace PAR? New article in @JournalCommPrac ! I could not be more humbled by the coll…
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RT @BarackObama: All Americans should be horrified and outraged by the brazen terrorist attacks on Israel and the slaughter of innocent civ…
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@kaitlin_sheerin Truly…. I use this in my research methods class, along with “scared straight” type programs.
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@mfktherapy I give them 30 minutes. They have to cover main points, connect the reading to the class session/prev session, and facilitate some kind of discussion or activity with two prompts/questions. I make pairs and assign readings randomly.
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@chrisgray40 @arthur_spirling That can be an aspect of the tenure grind that can be problematic, but it’s also part of the flexibility benefit. Perhaps we have time commitments like children to focus on during some of the traditional work hours, so we shift our work to times that work better for our lives.
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