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Marilyn Flynn was appointed dean of the USC School of Social Work in 1997, and since that time has achieved an $18 million increase in the school’s research funding, constructed a new building and expanded the faculty to an historic high.
Flynn was formerly director of the Institute for Public Policy and Social Research and director of the School of Social Work at Michigan State University. She has held positions of national leadership in the Council on Social Work Education and is founding president of the St. Louis Group, which represents all North American schools of social work in research-extensive universities. She is also recent past president of the California Association of Deans and Directors of Social Work Programs.
Her research interests include the application of computer and communications technology, cross-cultural perspectives on service delivery, and social program design and strategic planning. In 1999, she established the James E. Flynn Prize for Research, an internationally competitive award that recognizes a scholar whose interdisciplinary studies have significantly shaped modern social policy, the first of its kind in the social work profession. She also introduced the school’s International Social Welfare Award for outstanding work in human rights. The first prize was given to Mme. Kim Dae Jung, First Lady of Korea.
Flynn received a B.A. from Roosevelt University in 1960, an M.S.W. and a Ph.D. from the University of Illinois at Urbana in 1964 and 1976 respectively.
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