Meet the Faculty

J. Patrick Dexter

J. Patrick Dexter

Associate Professor
(716) 878-5709
Campus Address: Classroom Building C120
dexterjp@buffalostate.edu

Office Hours

Monday, 4:30-5:15 p.m.
Tuesdays, 12:15-12:45 p.m.
Wednesdays, 11:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m.
Thursdays, 5:15-5:45 p.m.
And by appointment.

M.S.W., 1972, SUNY at Buffalo

Professor Dexter earned his B.A. in History and Philosophy at Fordham University in the Bronx, and did graduate work in American History and Education at Fordham University. He was a Jesuit for ten years and taught high school in Chuuk District in Micronesia. In 1971, Mr. Dexter wrote a study on the use of credit unions in low income neighborhoods as a strategy in The War on Poverty by the Office of Economic Opportunity. His practice experience is in child welfare, compulsive gambling, aging, juvenile corrections, and probation. Mr. Dexter has trained Crisis Services and Department of Social Services staff. Family development, aging and mental health, and childhood trauma as a precursor to violent behavior are areas of research and/or special interest. Mr. Dexter has served in an administrative capacity in the Department for 24 of his 33 years at Buffalo State as Program Coordinator, Director of Field Education, or as Department Chair, a position he held from 1996 to 2009.. In May, 2004, Mr. Dexter presented a paper on Buffalo's role in the development of the social work profession in the 19th and early 20th century at the Fourth Annual China-United States Symposium on Social Welfare and Social Work in Beijing. In 2009 he has been invited by the Erie County Department of Social Services to evaluate purchase of service contract proposals submitted by Child Welfare Agencies for Intensive Family Intervention Programs.