The School of Social Science and Human Services enrolls over 1400 students in its degree and certification programs. It is the largest school on campus. We have eight professionals, over forty adjuncts, and 54 full time faculty who serve 7 majors, 8 minors and the Teacher Education Program.
SSHS is the direct descendent of the very first school established at Ramapo College -- The School of Human Environment (1971-1975). It is the only school to have generated two other schools [Social Relations (1976-78) and Environmental Studies (1976-1985)], and to have reorganized itself twice, first as Metropolitan & Community Studies (1976-1981) and finally as SS/HS (1981 to present). (Source: "Assessing A Dream," Institutional Self-Study, 1989).
Program, faculty, and student evidence clearly demonstrates that the School is alive and well in service of the College mission. The Psychology major is one of the two largest majors on campus, and Law and Society is among the fastest growing majors on campus. The Social Work Program is undergoing its second reaccredidation cycle with the Council of Social Work Education, a national accreditation agency. The Teacher Education Certification Program recently received a clean audit report from the Teacher Education Accreditation Council, also a national accreditation agency. A clean audit report is the highest evaluation possible from the TEAC audit team, which visited campus November 15-17, 2006.
Our distinguished faculty includes 24 full professors and 11 associate professors among its number. They have published seventeen books and numerous journal articles between them. SSHS faculty have made academic presentations and conducted research all over the world. Behzad Yaghmaian provides an example. His Embracing the Infidel has established him as a major voice in world dialogue on the Middle East. The paperback edition has been published in Iran and Italy. I would also note that the book was likened to the Grapes of Wrath by the giant, Kirkus Reviews. He has been referred to and quoted in the NY Times and USA Today, and interview on NPR, and a national radio station in the United Kingdom. Dr. Yaghmaian recently presented a Public Lecture at the University of London, and his Op-Eds have appeared in the Herald Tribune as well as USA Today.
Our faculty also serves the larger community in a variety of different ways. Mitch Kahn has been a force in state landlord-tenant issues for over twenty-five years, and Sam Pinn is known as the Mayor of Brooklyn, in part for the $180,000,000 he has raised over the years to support the many senior citizen and day care centers his organization runs in the Brooklyn borough. The Death and Dying conference and the State of the Africana Professoriate conference have brought world-renowned intellectuals to campus.
Our students have won national awards for their activism and they commonly achieve acceptance to the areas’ best graduate programs. For example, Social Work students applying for graduate school achieve advanced standing an unbelievable 86 percent of the time. Two of our current tenure track faculty actually graduated from the SSHS Psychology program, and our esteemed Trustee, Mr. A. J. Sabath is a graduate of our Social Work Program.
In all the areas of evaluation -- teaching, scholarship, and community service -- the School of Social Science and Human Services is furthering the mission of the College.
School of Social Science and Human Services Contact Information:
Office: B213
Hours: Mon. – Fri., 8:30 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.
Phone: (201) 684-7625 or (201) 684-7624
Fax: (201) 684-7973
