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PLAYING TO YOUR STRENGTHS “Social Policy for Effective Practice: A Strengths Approach” by Rosemary Chapin, professor of social welfare, presents social policy through the lens of the strengths perspective. Strengths, not deficits, should be the central focus of the helping process, she writes. The book includes an instructor’s manual in the form of a downloadable syllabus, custom Web site, electronic reader (The Social Work Library) and companion CD-ROM (Practicing Social Work).

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In June 1945, Gertrude Sellards Pearson, a 1901 alumna, and her husband, Texas oilman Joseph R. Pearson, donated $200,000 to help build student housing. In the next 15 years, two residence halls and three scholarship halls opened. One residence hall, named for her, still houses women; the other, named for him, now is home to the School of Education. Pearson, Grace Pearson and Sellards scholarship halls were named for members of their families. For more, see www.buildings.ku.edu.