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Associate Professor of Social Work Sudershan.Pasupuleti@utoledo.edu HHS 2620 - 419.530.5338 (office) SU 3020 - 419.530.4039 (office 2) 419.530.8402 (fax) | |
Dr. Sudershan Pasupuleti is currently an associate professor at the University of Toledo and has been on the faculty of the Department of Social Work since August 2001. He holds Bachelors and Masters degrees in Social Work, a Master of Philosophy in Social Work, and a Doctorate in Social Work. He brings nearly two decades of experience in a number of areas -- teaching, research, service learning, agency administration, evaluation, and macro practice of social work. Dr. Pasupuleti has taught courses in areas of human behavior sequence, practice with organizations and communities, social research and statistics, social administration, social policy and planning, human resource management, and service learning in both undergraduate and graduate programs at different schools of social work for over 17 years in the United States and India. He has provided guidance to a few hundreds of students in research and practice. Apart from social work teaching, he had taught human resource development for nonprofit and service sectors in India. Dr. Pasupuleti is a recent recipient of the prestigious “Hartford Faculty Scholar Award” from the Gerontological Society of America, funded by John A. Hartford Foundation for 2008-10. The award carries $100,000 for his research in aging issues over two years. His current research interests include technology for aging population, cognitive aging and brain plasticity, advocacy for meeting the needs of older and at-risk populations, and cross-cultural and social justice studies.
Dr. Pasupuleti is also Director for the University of Toledo’s (UT) Office of Service Learning & Community Engagement (OSLCE) since January 2005 and reports to the Office of the Provost in this role. In this role, he is charged with expanding service learning programs and infusing service learning pedagogy into the University curriculum through providing support and resources to faculty members and students in their community engagement efforts. He has developed two service learning fellowship programs for at-risk students and a student leadership program in service learning. He has been a site mentor for AmeriCorps VISTAs on the UT campus for over three years. He has also been instrumental in conceiving and leading an interdisciplinary service-learning project consisting of six UT faculty, community partners and local high school teachers for youth empowerment in the inner city of North Toledo, a neighborhood known for high concentration of poverty, school drop-outs, and other impending social risks. Dr. Pasupuleti is currently working towards developing issue-based learning communities; involving community agencies, university faculty and students, with dual objectives of enriched academic learning and civic engagement by addressing the real needs of Toledo community.
Before immigrating to the United States, Dr. Pasupuleti worked as chief executive officer of Development Action and Research Center (DAARCE) for nearly five years and was also the project leader for a multi-million project at the Center for World Solidarity funded by NOVIB, Netherlands, for political empowerment of women and marginalized groups in India. As a practitioner, his expertise lie in the areas of community organization, action research, community development, and agency & project administration. Dr. Pasupuleti’s professional work also includes consulting assignments in the areas of research and training for international organizations, including the Department for International Development, United Kingdom; The Bread for the World, Germany; Modern Architects for Rural India (MARI); and CARE-AP, for their microfinance, rural development, education, empowerment of marginalized and at-risk population, decentralized local administration, health promotion projects in India.
View "The Basics of Service Learning" by Sudershan Pasupuleti, Ph.D., Assistant Professor of Social Work & Director of Service Learning, The University of Toledo.