Tulane University honors three trailblazers in the School of Social Work
Tulane University is honoring three trailblazers in the School of Social Work with a special painting Share Updated: 10:52 AM CST Mar 3, 2021
Tulane University is honoring three trailblazers in the School of Social Work with a special painting Share Updated: 10:52 AM CST Mar 3, 2021
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Show Transcript I HAVE STUDENTS, FACULTY, ALUMNI SAY, IF IT WAS NOT FOR THE TRAIL THEY BLAZED, I WOULD NOT BE HERE TODAY. RANDI: NEW ON WDSU NEWS THIS MORNING TULANE UNIVERSITY IS HONORING THREE AFRICAN AMERICAN GRADUATES WHO HELPED TO INTEGRATE THE UNIVERSITY SOME 60 YEARS AGO IN A REALLY UNIQUE WAY. THEY’VE COMMISSIONED A PIECE OF ART THAT WILL SOON LINE THE HALLS OF THE SCHOOL OF SOCIAL WORK, WHICH IS WHERE THE THREE WOMEN RECEIVED THEIR DEGREES. THE DEAN SAYS GLORIA BRYANT BANKS, PEARLIE HARDIN ELLOIE, AND MARILYN S. PIPER ARE MODELS FOR TRANSCENDING TRADITION AND BREAKI
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Celebrating individuals who have made Tulane University a more inclusive and diverse academic community is at the heart of Tulane’s Trailblazers initiative, which was launched by President Michael Fitts in 2019.
For the Tulane School of Social Work (TSSW), honoring such trailblazers took a unique collaboration that created a vibrant result. It all started when School of Social Work Dean Patrick Bordnick found an artist capable of telling its story.
As the first African-American graduate students to earn degrees from the Tulane School of Social Work (TSSW) and among the first to graduate from