  {"id":43,"date":"2012-07-17T07:56:18","date_gmt":"2012-07-17T11:56:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ramapo.edu\/sshs\/home\/"},"modified":"2026-02-05T16:23:49","modified_gmt":"2026-02-05T21:23:49","slug":"home","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.ramapo.edu\/sshs\/","title":{"rendered":"Home"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"infoBox col-sm-12 col-lg-12  goldBox\"><div class=\"boxTitle\" style=\"padding: 1%;\">Student Update<\/div><div class=\"boxContent\" style=\"padding: 1%;\">\n<div class=\"row colSet\">\n<div class=\"sColumn col-sm-12 col-md-12 col-lg-2\">\n<div style=\"padding: 5px 0px 0px 5px; vertical-align: top; text-align: center; margin: 0;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ramapo.edu\/provost\/home\/comprehensive-academic-plan\/student-resources\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ramapo.edu\/provost\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/380\/2025\/10\/Academic-Plan-2023-2029-Final_Page_1-768x994.jpg\" alt=\"Ramapo College of New Jersey Comprehensive Academic Plan\" width=\"90%\" height=\"auto\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"sColumn col-sm-12 col-md-12 col-lg-2\">\n<div style=\"width: 100%; padding: 5px 0px 0px 5px; vertical-align: top; margin: 0; font-size: 1.2em; line-height: 1.5em;\">Ramapo is enhancing and elevating the student experience through its <strong>Comprehensive Academic Plan (CAP)<\/strong>. Stay up to date on key initiatives, important timelines, and the support available to you.<br \/>\n<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ramapo.edu\/provost\/home\/comprehensive-academic-plan\/student-resources\/\">Visit the CAP Resources Page &gt;<\/a><\/strong><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n<p>The School of Social Science and Human Services (SSHS) focuses on how people think, interact, grow, and respond to society and the evolving standards in our communities. \u00a0Social scientists seek to uncover facts about our culture, our society, and our environment. \u00a0Our faculty are dedicated to exposing our students to creating a sustainable future, understanding the foundation of our laws and the impact of those rules, examining the whole of human society, understanding human cognition, emotion, experience, and behavior, and preparing students to work in a culturally diverse society. \u00a0We approach the teaching of the social sciences through interdisciplinary, which results 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Education<\/h3><div class=\"keys\"><span class=\"ramaroon\">M<\/span> <span class=\"ramalightgray\">O<\/span><\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"col-lg-3 col-md-4 col-sm-6 course all-courses active Minor\"><div class=\"course-wrap\" data-url=\"https:\/\/www.ramapo.edu\/majors-minors\/?p=307\"><h3>Women's, Gender and Sexuality Studies<\/h3><div class=\"keys\"><span class=\"ramagrey\">m<\/span><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<\/div><div id=\"t697080416\" title=\"Dean's Message\" class=\"content\" tabindex=\"0\">\n<h3>Message from the Interim Dean<\/h3>\n<h4>Kathleen Ray, PhD.<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ramapo.edu\/sshs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2025\/02\/Ray-Kathleen-Web.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright wp-image-4051 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ramapo.edu\/sshs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2025\/02\/Ray-Kathleen-Web-240x300.jpg\" alt=\"Kathleen Ray\" width=\"240\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ramapo.edu\/sshs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2025\/02\/Ray-Kathleen-Web-240x300.jpg 240w, https:\/\/www.ramapo.edu\/sshs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2025\/02\/Ray-Kathleen-Web-100x125.jpg 100w, https:\/\/www.ramapo.edu\/sshs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2025\/02\/Ray-Kathleen-Web-145x182.jpg 145w, https:\/\/www.ramapo.edu\/sshs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2025\/02\/Ray-Kathleen-Web-165x206.jpg 165w, https:\/\/www.ramapo.edu\/sshs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2025\/02\/Ray-Kathleen-Web-300x375.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.ramapo.edu\/sshs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2025\/02\/Ray-Kathleen-Web.jpg 358w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 240px) 100vw, 240px\" \/><\/a><\/h4>\n<p>The 21st century has ushered a myriad of challenges including the collapse of local and national economies, ecological disasters and political turmoil throughout the global landscape. The challenges reveal a crisis of inequalities and call for a systemic understanding of interactions between natural forces, human activities, and the community. Research has shown that our vulnerabilities to climate change, poverty, political instability and warfare are inextricably connected to the way societies organize their social, economic, legal and political institutions. We conceptualize individual and social well-being based on the study and implementation of research in social organization. The social sciences provide individuals the conceptual ability and the tools to create social conditions that promote civic engagement, social justice, equality, and prosperity. The School of Social Science and Human Services provides students with the fundamentals for the understanding of social organization. Students who graduate from the School are equipped with the necessary tool kit to continue their professional development in the private, civic society, and the public sector. Their ability to reason, think critically, create and execute well-developed plans prepares them well for the challenges of the 21st century.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The School of Social Science and Human Services (SSHS) enrolls over 1400 students in its degree and certification programs. We have 55 full-time faculty and 50 part-time instructors who serve 7 majors, 10 minors, including the Teacher Education Program, a Master of Science in Contemporary Instructional Design, a Master of Arts in Educational Leadership, a Master in Special Education, and a Master of Social Work program.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">To understand society and culture, a historical understanding rooted in critical thinking and social inquiry is necessary. SSHS provides social awareness and experiential learning to develop students who are aiming to effect social change, address societal inequity, and properly distinguish between fact and fiction. Students who graduate from a major with SSHS are able to foster social, statistical, and ecological literacy.<\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u00a0In all the areas of evaluation \u2013 teaching, scholarship, and community service \u2013 the School of Social Science and Human Services is furthering the mission of the College.<\/p>\n<\/div><div id=\"t697080417\" title=\"Mission Statement\" class=\"content\" tabindex=\"0\">\n<p>The School of Social Science and Human Services creates an interdisciplinary learning environment grounded in experiential learning and active participation in community experience. Using social science perspectives, we engage our students in critical thinking about enduring and emerging issues of our world, including psychological, social, cultural, economic, political, legal and environmental dimensions based on principles of social justice and sustainability. The values of diversity, inclusiveness and international and intercultural understanding are integral to our process of life-long learning.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><div class=\"divider \"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Ramapo\" src=\"\/wp-content\/themes\/rcnjrd\/images\/icons\/ramapo-arch-icom_rule.png\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"infoBox col-sm-12 col-lg-12  goldBox\"><div class=\"boxContent\">\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ramapo.edu\/sshs\/black-lives-matter-at-ramapo-college-and-in-the-school-of-social-science-and-human-services\/\">Black Lives Matter at Ramapo College and in the School of Social Science and Human Services<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><div class=\"infoBox col-sm-12 col-lg-12 \"><div class=\"boxTitle\">Donate to SSHS<\/div><div class=\"boxContent\"><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-weight: 400; text-align: left;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ramapo.edu\/sshs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2022\/12\/SSHS-Icon.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft wp-image-3721\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ramapo.edu\/sshs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2022\/12\/SSHS-Icon-150x150.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"103\" height=\"105\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.ramapo.edu\/sshs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2022\/12\/SSHS-Icon-100x102.png 100w, https:\/\/www.ramapo.edu\/sshs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2022\/12\/SSHS-Icon-152x155.png 152w, https:\/\/www.ramapo.edu\/sshs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2022\/12\/SSHS-Icon-165x168.png 165w, https:\/\/www.ramapo.edu\/sshs\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/16\/2022\/12\/SSHS-Icon.png 201w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 103px) 100vw, 103px\" \/><\/a>To support the students of the School of Social Science and Human Services, please consider making a donation to the Ramapo College Foundation and\u00a0<strong>designate the funds to the School of Social Science and Human Services (SSHS)<\/strong>\u00a0in the drop down menu\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ramapo.edu\/giving\/make-a-gift\/\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/www.ramapo.edu\/giving\/make-a-gift\/&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1671218163338000&amp;usg=AOvVaw2VJtEW6WEp39HY1745XK7m\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<h3>School of Social Science and Human Services Contact Information:<\/h3>\n<p>Office: ASB-431<br \/>\nHours: Mon. &#8211; Fri., 8:30 a.m. &#8211; 4:30 p.m.<br \/>\nPhone: (201) 684-7625 or (201) 684-7624<br \/>\nFax: (201) 684-7257<\/p>\n<div class=\"contactBox\"><p><strong>Nancy Bernet<\/strong><br>SSHS Administrative School Coordinator<br \/>E-mail: <a href=\"mailto:nbernet@ramapo.edu\"> nbernet@ramapo.edu<\/a><br>Phone: (201) 684-7625<br \/>Office: ASB-431<\/p><\/div>\n<div class=\"contactBox\"><p><strong>Zewde Petros<\/strong><br>Secretarial Assistant 2<br \/>E-mail: <a href=\"mailto:zpetros@ramapo.edu\"> zpetros@ramapo.edu<\/a><br>Phone: (201) 684-7051<br \/>Office: ASB-431<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The School of Social Science and Human Services (SSHS) focuses on how people think, interact, grow, and respond to society and the evolving standards in our communities. \u00a0Social scientists seek to uncover facts about our culture, our society, and our environment. \u00a0Our faculty are dedicated to exposing our students to creating a sustainable future, understanding [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1011,"featured_media":2234,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"page_leftCol_hero_img.php","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-43","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v21.5 (Yoast SEO v27.1.1) - 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