USF Sarasota-Manatee Forms Partnership with Glasser/Shoenbaum Human Services Center for Service, Scholarship and Research 

(Sarasota, FL November 3, 2005) – The Glasser/Schoenbaum Human Services Center and the University of South Florida, School of Social Work, at the Sarasota-Manatee campus, is establishing a partnership to meet community needs through service, scholarship, joint research and collaborative learning for students and faculty of the university and the staff of the Human Services Center agencies. This new community partnership will be the focus of the Center’s 15^th Anniversary celebration on November 17, according to Dr. Kay Glasser, founder and Chairman of the Board of the Center.   

The collaboration will achieve some mutual goals for both institutions including providing opportunities for research for undergraduate and graduate students in social work; enhancing the joint grant opportunities for research; providing internships for students; addressing manpower development needs in the local community and enhancing relationships between working professionals and faculty. 

Through the partnership, the Glasser/Shoenbaum Human Services Center will become part of the National Quality Caregiving Coalition, of which USF Sarasota-Manatee is already a member institution. 

The public celebration will run from 4 p.m. to 6 p.m. and will feature special guest Dr. Peter French, associate vice president and dean for academic affairs at USF Sarasota-Manatee. French is also a professor of Africana Studies at USF Sarasota-Manatee and is a member of the Board of Directors of Manatee Educational TV, the Suncoast Workforce Board and the Yale Club of the Sun Coast where he serves as President. In addition, he is President Emeritus of Newberry College of South Carolina.

The Glasser/Schoenbaum Human Services Center helps people achieve self-sustaining lives by offering 89 vital programs provided by more than a dozen non-profit agencies located on one convenient campus. Since opening its doors in March 1990, the Center has helped its resident agencies maximize resources by minimizing operational costs, enabling them to provide increased services to an ever-growing population.  The cost effectiveness and convenience of the Center enhance the quality of life for the entire community which depends upon healthy and productive citizens. 

USF Sarasota-Manatee is an upper-level campus for those with an associate’s or bachelor’s degree who are interested in getting a baccalaureate or master’s degree, professional certification, or continuing education credit. The regional campus offers the prestige of a national Research 1 university with the convenience of a hometown campus, including classes in south Sarasota County at our Manatee Community College Venice site.