We welcome short articles (500-700 words), news, photos (we like photos with articles, too), online resources, book announcements and previews (not reviews). We are especially looking for practitioner and student member contributions to the newsletter. Let us know about your exciting work and challenging ideas in areas of community organizing, social administration, macro field education, international development, and other topics of interest to macro practitioners, educators, and students. ACOSA Update! has a number of standing columns, and you may contact those columnists to discuss contributions in those areas. Our Publication and Submission time schedule for 2004 is as follows:
Issue Publication Submission
DeadlineWinter Late January End of December Spring April End of March Summer July End of June Fall October End of September Send contributions via email to: Tracy Soska, Editor at tsssw@pitt.edu
ACOSA Update! Editor
Tracy M. Soska, LSWContinuing Education Director
University of Pittsburgh
School of Social Work
2025 Cathedral of Learning
Pittsburgh, PA 15260Phone: 412-624-3711
FAX: 412-624-6323
E-mail: tsssw@pitt.edu
Tracy M. Soska, LSW, is Continuing Education Director and a Community Organization and Social Administration Program faculty member at the University of Pittsburgh’s School of Social Work. Co-Director/PI of the University’s Community Outreach Partnership Center, he is also PI for the University-Community Career Development Partnership and the Catalyst for Community Building projects. A recipient of the Chancellor’s Distinguished Public Service award, he is chair of the University Senate’s Community Relations Committee. He is on the Editorial Boards of the Journal of Community Practice and Professional Development: the International Journal of Continuing Social Work Education and the editor of ACOSA’s national newsletter, ACOSA Update! He was formerly a community human service executive for over 15 years.