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Milestones

January 1998 – Ron Astor collaborates with colleagues at Hebrew University in Israel, initiating the world’s largest representative study on school violence. More than 75,000 subjects are surveyed.
October 1998 – Penelope Trickett visits Beijing, Xian, Guilin and Nanjing, China, as part of a 10-person delegation on a 10-day tour of child welfare agencies sponsored by the Child Welfare League of America.
January 2000 – The school creates the International Social Welfare Award, which honors as its first recipient Madame Lee Hee Ho, first lady of South Korea. She makes her first official visit to the United States to accept the award.
July 2001 – Michalle Mor Barak earns grants from the Rockefeller Foundation and Borchard Foundation to conduct international conferences in Italy and France on creating a globally inclusive workplace.
August 2001 – A delegation of faculty tours Mt. Kumgang in communist North Korea and dines with Madame Lee Hee Ho at the Blue House (the South Korean equivalent of the White House).
June 2002 – South Korea’s President Kim Dae Jung invites Dean Flynn, Madeleine Stoner and Marlene Wagner to attend the 2002 Federation Internationale de Football Association World Cup Korea.
November 2002 – The School of Social Work, School of Cinema-Television and Korean Studies Institute hosts a Korean film festival featuring a personal appearance by Im Kwon-Taek, Korea’s most prolific and internationally renowned filmmaker.
September 2004 – Dean Flynn gives the keynote address at the opening of the Seoul City Welfare Foundation, the world’s first institution to be funded by a major city for the purpose of allocating and overseeing the use of social service funds.
March 2005 – Iris Chi initiates the China Program to offer cross-cultural educational opportunities for American and Chinese leaders, such as the Distinguished Lecture Series on Chinese Social and Economic Development to commemorate USC’s 125th anniversary.
April 2005 – The school launches the Center for Asian-Pacific Leadership, which is started by a $1 million endowment from SKTelecom, one of Korea's largest telecommunications companies.
July 2005 – The school establishes international education programs with the National Autonomous University of Mexico in Mexico City and the University of the Phillipines in Diliman.
August 2005 – The State Building Forum, a think tank that recommends solutions for contemporary social problems in China, invites the USC School of Social Work to serve as an international consultant.
September 2005 – The PhD class of 2007 is invited to make a presentation at the Asia-Pacific Social Work Conference in Seoul, Korea.
December 2005 – The school collaborates with South Korea’s Yonsei University to host “The Korean Community in the United States: A Century of Engagement,” which convened nearly 200 Korean-American leaders and scholars in a public symposium.
February 2006 – The Campbell Collaboration, an international body of scholars committed to evidence-based policymaking, convenes its sixth annual colloquium at the USC School of Social Work. Held for the first time on the West Coast, the event brings together participants from more than 20 nations on more than five continents.
February 2006 – The Network of Korean-American Leaders (NetKAL) Fellowship Program, which emphasizes intercultural exchange and networking through weekend workshops, recruits its first class.

September 2006 – The Network of Korean-American Leaders (NetKAL) Fellowship Program graduates its first class.