Social Work advisory board establishes endowment to support family violence research

ARLINGTON – The UT Arlington School of Social Work Advisory Council has created a new, $250,000 endowed professorship focused on issues of family violence in honor of the Arlington police officer and University alumna who was killed in the line of duty last year. Advisory Council members committed a total $125,000 to The University of Texas at Arlington to create the endowment, a gift that is believed to be the first of its kind from a University advisory group. That sum has been doubled through the Maverick Match  program, which pairs