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Opportunities to Enhance Excellence in Clinical Social Work Education by Promoting the Vision of Stability and Transformation

 

The mission of the Smith College School for Social Work is to advance the aims of the profession through education for excellence in clinical social work practice and through the development of knowledge.

Masters Student Support
Average unmet need per student: $15,000 per year or $380,000 endowment
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General Scholarship/Financial Aid

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Class of 1989 Scholarship for Students of Color

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Merit Scholarship

> Military Scholarship
> Research Internships
  Need per internship: $5,000 per year or $126,000 endowment

 

Masters Field Support
> Supervision Certificate Program
  Program need: $20,000 per year or $505,000 endowment
> Supervisor Training and Annual Conference
  Program need: $10,000 per year or $255,000 endowment
> Innovative Field Programs such as the Student Integrative Field Seminars
  Program need: $20,000 per year or $505,000 endowment

 

Doctoral Student Support
> Scholarship/ Financial Aid
  Average unmet need per student: $10,000 per year or $255,000 endowment
> Supervision Support
  Program need: $30,000 per year or $750,000 endowment
> Research stipends
  Program need: $40,000 per year or $1,010,000 endowment

 

Curriculum, Responsiveness to Diverse Populations and Evolving Changes in the Field
Program need: $20,000 per year or $505,000 endowment
> Enhancing course content, lectures and curriculum development on issues of class, disabilities, aging, religion and spirituality, sexual orientation, and gender
> Expanded use of technology in the program
> Student personal and professional development

 

Faculty Development
Program need: $15,000 per year or $375,000 endowment
> Faculty scholarship and research

 

International Initiatives
Program need: $10,000 per year or $255,000 endowment
> Field placement and research opportunities in Thailand, Bulgaria, Uganda, Israel, Mexico, China and other countries

 

Certificate Programs and Institutes
Program need: $10,000 per year or $255,000 endowment
> End of Life Certificate Program
> Contemplative Clinical Practice: An Advanced Certificate Program in Spirituality and Social Work Practice
> Creating New Institutes, e.g. Aging and End of Life Care and African American Families

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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