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Pioneering Contributions
Darlyne Bailey, PhD, has spent her career in academia advocating for social justice’s role in the social work profession. She was named Dean of the Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences at Case Western Reserve University in 1994, just three weeks after receiving tenure. Bailey served in that role until 2002, during which time she significantly increased the school’s operating budget, brought in numerous endowed chairs, and deepened the school’s impact on the greater Cleveland community.
She always was pleased to note that there were few social initiatives in the city that were not impacted by someone from the school. Bailey’s next position allowed her to return to her native New York City, where she became the Vice President of Academic Affairs and Dean and later Acting President of Teacher’s College at Columbia University. In this position, she designed and led the Teacher’s College Education Partnership Zone, which combined the influence of the college, local corporations, and nonprofits to improve teaching and teacher retention rates at local elementary schools.
Bailey left New York City and Columbia in 2006 to serve as the first Dean of the newly merged College of Human Education and Human Development at the University of Minnesota, where she worked with faculty and staff to shape the combined schools into a multidisciplinary college that focused on wholistic human development throughout the lifespan. She joined Bryn Mawr College as the Dean of the Graduate School of Social Work and Social Research in 2009, leading the school to realize greater fiscal health, significant policy developments, and programmatic changes including the transformation of their professional development continuing education program. She advocated for collaboration with other professions and established a dual degree program with Jefferson College of Population Health for their MSS/MPH Degree.
Career Highlights
Bailey was one of the first women to attend Lafayette College when it became a coeducational institution in 1970. After receiving her MS Degree from Columbia University, she worked as a clinician and marriage and family therapist. She joined several colleagues in the founding of a community mental health center, which built on her work in crisis intervention and the promotion of alternative care methods over psychotropic and other prescription drugs. While earning her PhD, Bailey expanded her focus to bridge micro and macro social work practice after realizing how many professional practices, policies, and institutions were ultimately preventing vulnerable populations from receiving the high quality services they needed and deserved.
She applied her multidisciplinary focus throughout her career, to serve as many people and communities in as many effective ways as possible. As Dean of the Mandel School, she led her colleagues in the creation of the Assessment Initiative, making it the first graduate social work program in the country that focused the curriculum on what students are learning as opposed to what faculty are teaching. Bailey’s involvement in the expansion of the “fathers within families” issue in the social work profession, broadened the focus of research to include the effect of fatherly presence on families and children. This, in turn, led her to help create a model for implementing responsible fatherhood programs in child welfare systems.
Bailey was a Group XIII Fellow of the WK Kellogg National Leadership Program, as well as a board member of community and national organizations including: the Maternity Care Coalition and the Agnes Irwin School’s Center for the Advancement of Girls in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; the Frances Hesselbein Leadership Institute in New York City, New York; the National Human Services Assembly in Washington, D.C.; the Suzanne and Richard Pieper Family Foundation in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.; and, the Kellogg Fellows Leadership Alliance in Denver, Colorado. She also served on the Board of the National Association of Social Work Deans and Directors and continues to Co-Chair the national “Special Commission to Advance Macro Practice in Social Work.”
In partnership with the Council on Social Work Education (CSWE), the Special Commission established a national task force to produce in 2018 the inaugural “Specialized Practice Curricular Guide for Macro Social Work Practice,” designed to provide effective teaching and research resources for classrooms and field agencies to enhance the understanding and teaching of essential macro social work concepts. She also served as Special Assistant for Community Partnerships to the President at Bryn Mawr, during which time she began the “Social Justice Initiative” that promotes the use of several essential components to ensure genuine and equitable justice for all.
Biographic Data
Bailey was born in Harlem, New York City and has been a member of NASW since 1975. She received her AB Degree in Psychology and Secondary Education from Lafayette College in 1974, her MS Degree in Psychiatric Social Work from Columbia University in 1976, and her PhD in Organizational Behavior from Case Western Reserve University in 1988. Bailey received a certificate in Psychoanalytic Psychotherapy from the New York City Lenox Hill Hospital Program in 1981.
Significant Achievements and Awards
- 2016 – Mandel School Hall of Achievement, Case Western Reserve University;
- 2015 – Honors Award, National Association of Black Social Workers;
- 2014 – Mentor of the Year Award, Council on the Role and Status of Women in Social Work Education, CSWE;
- 2009 – Special Community Service Award, Pillsbury United Communities, Minneapolis, Minnesota;
- 2000 – Named a Rainmaker by Northern Ohio Live magazine;
- 1993-1996 – WK Kellogg National Fellowship Program, Group XIII WK Kellogg Foundation;
- 1992 – Outstanding Teacher Award, Mandel School of Applied Social Sciences; and,
- She also was recognized and received an award by the NASW Pennsylvania Chapter as an Influential African American Social Worker who has helped to shape the profession.
Significant Publications
- Allen, J. A, Bailey, D., Dubus, N., & Wichinsky, L. (2015). The interrelationship of the origins and present state of social work in the United States and Cuba: The power of a profession to bridge cultures, 25(1), 18-25. In D. Bailey & M. Feit (Eds.), Human Behavior and the Social Environment Social Work in the United States and Cuba: Sharing Perspectives, Reflections, and Experiences. Journal of Human Behavior in the Social Environment, Special Issue, 25(1), 1-76.
- Bailey, D., & Uhly, K. (2008). Leadership. In T. Mizrahi & L. Davis (Eds.), Encyclopedia of Social Work, 20th Edition, Vol. 3 (pp. 62-67). Washington, D.C. & New York, NY: Oxford University Press and NASW.
- Bailey, D., Koney, K. M., McNish, M. E., Powers, R., and Uhly, K. (2008). Sustaining our spirits: Women leaders thriving for today and tomorrow. Washington, D.C.: NASW Press.
- Perlmutter, F., Bailey, D., & Netting, E. (2001). Managing human resources in the human services. New York, NY: Oxford University Press.
- Bailey, D., & Koney, K. M. (2000). Strategic alliances among health and human services organizations: From affiliations to consolidations. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications.
- Bailey, D., Wolfe, D. M, & Wolfe, C. (1996). The contextual impact of social support across race and gender: Implications for African-American women in the workplace. Journal of Black Studies, 26(2), 287-307.
- Bailey, D., Heon, F., & Steingard, D. (1993). Postmodern international development: Intervelopment and global interbeing. Journal of Organizational Change Management, 6(3), 43-63.
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