Authors and Editors
Elizabeth B. Pearce
This text reflects the efforts of multiple authors and institutions from several related disciplines.
Elizabeth B. Pearce, Linn-Benton Community College
Liz is a faculty member who teaches the Human Services classes at LBCC. She has combined sections of three different openly licensed texts, edited them for clarity, and in some cases expanded those chapters. In addition, she has written new chapters specifically focused on the field of Human Services. She is credited for her original work and as the second author on works from the Ferris State University chapters where she made substantial changes and additions.
She is proud to be a member of an institution that supports the work of open educational resources and open pedagogy, which strive to increase equity for students. Her passion is creating opportunities and resources for transformative learning. She is a long-time faculty member at Linn-Benton Community College, teaching Human Development and Family Sciences courses and advising future Human Services and Social Work professionals. In addition she leads and mentors faculty in several areas: equity-based teaching, active learning, technology use, and open pedagogy.
Liz earned a Bachelor of Arts in Child Study with a Performing Arts minor at Tufts University. After teaching young children for four years, she returned to earn a Master of Education degree in Administration, Planning, and Social Policy at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. She has also completed post-graduate coursework in child development, life course development theory, educational policy, and sociology at Wheelock College (now Boston University) and Oregon State University.
Ferris State University Department of Social Work
Ferris State University created an openly licensed text, Introduction to Social Work at Ferris State University in 2017.
From Dr. Jessica Gladden:
“This book was written by MSW students as their final project for their Capstone class. Students were each assigned a chapter of the book to write to show that they had achieved competency as a Master’s level social worker. Chapters were assigned based on student interest and experience in certain areas of the field.”
Individual authors are credited at the start of the chapters. In addition, Ferris State had a team of editors:
Dr. Jessica Gladden
Professor Danette Crozier
Dr. Kathryn Woods
Dr. Janet Vizina- Roubal
Professor Michael Berghoef
Ferris State thanks their Social Work librarian, Stacy Anderson, and our primary SCWK 110 professor, Elizabeth Post, for editing and putting the whole book together in the Pressbooks format.
Introduction to Social Welfare and Social Work, Codes of Ethics, Cultural Competence, and Serving Specific Populations all contain contributions or are comprised mostly from the work of Ferris State University authors.
Saylor Academy
Saylor Academy is a nonprofit initiative working since 2008 to offer free and open online courses to all who want to learn. Their authors of the text Social Problems: Continuity and Change are anonymous. Three parts include significant contributions from Saylor Academy: Social Problems and Personal Troubles, Poverty, and Serving Families.
DePaul University
Leonard A. Jason, Olya Glantsman, Jack F. O’Brien, and Kaitlyn N. Ramian are the lead authors of the The Introduction to Community Psychology text. Three chapters are used in Serving Communities part of this text , and the unique set of authors for each are credited there.
