Social Work, Mental Health, and Public Policy in Diverse Contexts / International Perspectives on Social Policy, Administration, and Practice (PDF)

Professor Sheying Chen received his Ph.D. & MSW from the University of California at Los Angeles (School of Public Policy & Social Research) and is currently a tenured professor of Public Administration/Social Policy at Pace University in New York. He is the founding director of the Centers for Social Work Study and Healthcare Administration at top-ranked Tsinghua University, where he served as a senior visiting scholar and senior research fellow of Cross-Strait Research and Sino-American Relations etc. He was Associate Provost for Academic Affairs (2010-2012) at Pace and previously Associate Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs and Professor of Sociology at Indiana University (Southeast). Prior to IU, Dr. Chen was Professor and Dean at the University of Guam (UOG), overseeing the Colleges/Schools of: Business & Public Administration; Education; Health Sciences, Nursing & Social Work. He held tenure as Professor and Chair at the City University of New York (Staten Island) where he headed a large unit housing psychology, sociology, anthropology, social work, aging, disability studies, women's studies, and a number of interdisciplinary initiatives. He was a permanent faculty member of Sun Yat-sen University at Guangzhou, the "institution of highest learning" in southern China, from 1986 to 1992, where he served as a coordinator for graduate studies and a forerunner of China's rebuilt social work/policy education and research. A Fellow of The Royal Society of Arts (RSA) and one of the most influential scholars in Chinese social sciences, Professor Chen is the co-editor for the Springer Book Series International Perspectives on Social Policy, Administration, & Practice and International Perspectives on Aging.