06/08/2026
Congratulations to Ashleigh Washington, Class of 2026 and The Graduate Center's 2026 Commencement Student Speaker! Watch a recording of her speech, and the Commencement ceremony, on YouTube at https://www.youtube.com//
Official page for the Ph.D. Program in Social Welfare at the CUNY Graduate Center Our Ph.D.
in Social Welfare is a program of the Graduate Center of the City University of New York. The program is offered through the Silberman School of Social Work at Hunter College. We are committed to social work's historic role in developing effective change strategies at the individual, agency, community, national, and international levels. We strive to produce scholars who are expert in using resear
06/08/2026
Congratulations to Ashleigh Washington, Class of 2026 and The Graduate Center's 2026 Commencement Student Speaker! Watch a recording of her speech, and the Commencement ceremony, on YouTube at https://www.youtube.com//
06/07/2026
Graduate Center Commencement Celebrates Purpose, Success, and 471 Degrees The Class of 2026 took the stage at Lincoln Center at a joyous 60th Commencement.
06/01/2026
Mordechai Levovitz, first-year doctoral student in The PhD Program in Social Welfare, was recently featured on The Thought Project, an official podcast of The Graduate Center. Check it out here:
https://www.gc.cuny.edu/news/helping-lgbtq-jews-find-support-orthodox-and-hasidic-communities
06/01/2026
Congratulations to Ashleigh Washington, Class of 2026 and The Graduate Center's 2026 Commencement Student Speaker! Watch Commencement live on YouTube on 6/2/26 at 6pm ET at https://www.youtube.com//
06/01/2026
Congratulations to our Class of 2026 at the PhD Program in Social Welfare at The Graduate Center! Watch Commencement live on YouTube on 6/2/26 at 6pm ET at https://www.youtube.com//
05/22/2026
Helping LGBTQ+ Jews Find Support in Orthodox and Hasidic Communities Social worker and Social Welfare Ph.D. student Mordechai Levovitz shares insights from decades of counseling fellow members of the LGBTQ+ community on “The Thought Project.”
05/07/2026
Join us today at 2pm ET / 1pm CT for "Navigating Community Resilience and Organizing in Social Work," a conversation between NYC and Minneapolis.
RSVP at https://tinyurl.com/4v62pc8n
cc: The Graduate Center
05/04/2026
Join us this Thursday, 5/7/26 at 2pm ET / 1pm CT for "Navigating Community Resilience and Organizing in Social Work," a conversation between NYC and Minneapolis.
RSVP at https://tinyurl.com/4v62pc8n
cc: The Graduate Center
04/13/2026
Congratulations to our doctoral students and candidates at The Graduate Center presenting their work this week in Aberdeen, Scotland at the 2026 European Conference on Social Work Research! Learn more at https://socialwelfare.commons.gc.cuny.edu/student-conference-presentations/ecswr-2026/