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FACULTY DEVELOPMENT

 

Faculty Facts

> With a resident faculty-student ration of one to fourteen, faculty members are available not only to instruct, but to encourage, guide, and inspire students.
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Faculty maintain regular office hours, serve as liaisons to student groups, collaborate with students on research, and mentor students in special endeavors.

> The professional interests and on-going research areas of the faculty are widely varied and include:
 
  • dissociative identity disorders
  • self psychology and intersubjectivity
  • issues of racial and social identity
  • using developmental theory across cultures
  • social work pedagogy and issues of diversity
  • the interface of race and gender
  • anti-oppression work
  • foster and kinship care
  • child welfare
  • child support enforcement
  • social work in the schools
  • effectiveness of treatment for adolescent sexual abusers
  • adult development
  • family dynamics and development
  • couples therapy and divorce
  • father involvement with their children
  • family policy
  • religion and spirituality
  • end of life care
  • poverty and social policy
  • clinical supervision and consultation
  • disaster mental health trauma and work in international arenas such as reintegration of formerly abducted child soldiers into Ugandan society
  • the history of social work practice with immigrants and refugees

 

Priorities in Support of Faculty Development
Faculty Scholarship and Research

Funds are needed for faculty scholarship and research as an opportunity to advance faculty interests in concert with the curriculum of the School and to further the aims of the social work profession. $15,000 per year or a $375,000 endowment is needed for this initiative.

 

The Vision

Overview of Opportunities

Masters Student Support

Masters Field Support

Doctoral Student Support

Curriculum, Responsiveness to Diverse Populations and Evolving Changes in the Field

Faculty Development

International Initiatives

Certificate Programs and Institutes

 

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