ACADEMICS - Faculty
Glenda Dewberry Rooney, Ph.D. LICSW
Professor
dewroon@augsburg.edu
As
a social work practitioner, educator, consultant and administrator,
Glenda Dewberry Rooney's experience spans over twenty years in human
service and higher education organizations. She has been involved
in community based research and development projects, which included
the design, and development of the nationally recognized family reunification
and permanency program for African American youth, and “Defining
Neglect: A Community Perspective,” a project of the Minneapolis
Human Services Network. Dr Rooney has provided both clinical and management
consultation and training in the metro area, in Taiwan, Ghana and
The Netherlands. From 1999-2001, Dr. Rooney, on leave from Augsburg
College, was a Visiting Professor and the Interim Gamble-Skogmo Land
Grant Chair in Child Welfare and Youth Policy, School of Social Work,
University of Minnesota
She is the author of chapters in several books, and a co-author of Direct Social Work Practice Theory and Skills, (7thth edition) and principal author of the instructor’s manual. Looking Back, her most recent publication,traces a period in time in the history of Pueblo High School in Tucson, Arizona. The school became known for innovations and significant “firsts” in its educational programs and an activist principal and faculty, three of whom initiated the bilingual education legislation in the US. In the early 50’s Pueblo High School affirmed the belief that differences, whether race, class, culture or sexual orientation was attributes that defined who people where and what they could become. Proceeds from the sale of the book fund the alumni scholarship fund. (www.pueblowarriors.com/50)
Currently she is the chair the board of Our Children, Our Future, and a spokesperson for the Commission on Minnesota’s African American Children (COMAAC). Both organizations are committed to reducing the disparities in the out-of-home placement of children of color. As an invited participant, she has been involved in state and county child welfare initiatives and the national Race Matters Consortium funded by the Casey Foundation.
Dr. Rooney is a past member of editorial board of the Journal of
Research on Social Work Practice, the Minnesota Board of Social Work,
and Chair of the Association of Social Work Boards Exam Committee
and a former Trustee of the Minnesota Women’s Fund. She is a
member of civic groups, including WATCH, a courtroom justice initiative,
Alpha Kappa Alpha Sorority, the Ivy Foundation and an Associate Trustee
of the Wisconsin Union Association.