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Announcement
October 6, 2009
Dr. Herman Stein, Social Work Leader, Dies
 Dr. Herman Stein
passed away on Friday, October 2, 2009 at his home in Shaker Heights,
Ohio at the age of 92.
Dr. Stein earned both his master’s and doctoral degrees at Columbia
University School of Social Work. For more than 16 years, he was a
member of the Columbia University community as a professor at the
School of Social Work and as director of its Research Center. At
Columbia and Smith College, Professor Stein developed and introduced
some of the first courses in the nation on comparative social welfare
with a particular emphasis on the Third World. A prolific scholar who
authored and edited more than 120 papers and seven books, many on
international social welfare, Herman Stein was one of the first social
work educators to draw from and integrate theories and concepts from a
wide array of disciplines, including the social and behavioral
sciences, to inform his research and teaching. His doctoral courses on
organizational theory and administration and on research related to
comparative industrial social welfare are still referenced for their
pioneering perspectives and contributions.
A former president of the International Association of Schools of
Social Work, Professor Stein served on numerous missions to developing
countries and was a senior advisor on policy and organizational issues
for many public and private agencies in the United States. Among the
national and international organizations and health and education
institutions to which he lent his expertise as a consultant were the
War Manpower Conservation Commission; the Mount Sinai Medical Center;
the Government of India Planning Commission; the U.S. Department of
Health, Education, and Welfare (now the U.S. Department of Health and
Human Services); the Secretariat for the United Nations Conference of
Ministers Responsible for Social Welfare; the United Nations Division
of Social Development; the United Nations Children’s Fund; the Asian
Pacific Development Council; and the Harvard University School of
Public Health Program.
Through these and many other positions,
Professor Stein played a significant role in social welfare policy and
program development in countries around the world. In 1969 Dr. Stein
was appointed Dean of the School of Applied Social Sciences at Case
Western Reserve University and later Provost of Social and Behavioral
Sciences and University Vice President. Seventeen years later, the
Herman D. Stein Distinguished Educator Award was established at the
Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences at Case Western University in
recognition of his exemplary teaching and scholarship. This was
followed in 1994 by Case Western University conferring upon him its
highest honor -- the University Medal. Professor Stein’s many honors
and awards also include the Significant Lifetime Achievement Award
from the Council on Social Work Education, the Rene Sand Award of the
International Council of Social Welfare, and the Katherine A. Kendall
Award from the International Association of Schools of Social Work.
Professor Stein was an early pioneer in the field of International
Social Welfare whose work reflected a deep appreciation of the value
of interdisciplinary scholarship. Our sincerest condolences are
extended to his brother Joseph Stein, daughters Naomi, Shoshana and
Karen, and the entire Stein family.
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