“I found a home here.” CANDACE TERHUNE-FLANNERY, OUR ASSISTANT DEAN FOR ADMINISTRATION AND OPERATIONS, LOOKS BACK OVER TWO DECADES AT THE SCHOOL OF SOCIAL WORK
“T
he leaders at the School of Social Work are invested in the whole school,” says Candace Terhune-Flannery, for more than 20 years our Assistant Dean for Administration and Operations. “It’s about social work, it’s all about social justice. I have always had those beliefs and values, and at the School of Social Work I have really been able to see and participate in the way they interact.” In March 2022, Candace, a meticulous and dedicated supporter of the School’s Research Office, will retire. Her profound dedication to the school, to social work, to research and to the creation and perfection of administrative systems have made her legendary here. (If you can’t imagine the School without Candace, be assured you don’t have to—yet. She will still put in a few hours a week through the end of next year.) For the research office, Candace reviews project budgets and changes to the distribution of faculty and staff effort on project grants, and ensures that it is all within budgets and that her office is supporting faculty course buyouts and summer funding. Says our current Associate Dean for Research and Innovation, Rogério M. Pinto, “Candace has a keen eye for detail and a terrific capacity for developing system to help our grants managers manage pre- and post-awards, and thus support our great productivity.”
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