November 2005 Review Period: July 1, 2002 through June 30, 2005 Table of Contents
in the context of the university’s reach into local, state, national, and international
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in the context of the university’s reach into local, state, national, and internationalcommunitiesThe School of Social Work offers two degree programs; the Bachelor of Social Work (BSW) and the Master of Social Work (MSW). Both programs are fully accredited through 2012 by the Council on Social Work Education (CSWE), the accrediting body for all social work programs in the United States. By accreditation standard, the BSW prepares students for entry-level generalist social work practice. As Appendix D4 shows, the BSW program has enjoyed strong enrollments during this review period. In the School’s Annual Report, we have projected approximately 1500 credit hours per semester. We have averaged that number. Those numbers will be exceeded in FY 2006 given the enrollments in our undergraduate classes in Fall 2005. A major component of our BSW program is participation in the Federal Title IV E Child Welfare Training Program of the Social Security Act. Title IV E provides tuition, books, and travel money for approved students to complete child welfare course work and their 400 hour supervised practicum within the Division of Family and Children Services on a year for year payback basis. Approximately 22-25 BSW students a year graduate with the support under the Title IV E grant. In addition, the IV E grant supports administrative and instructional requirements of the program. The average total IV E grant over the period of this review is $700,000 though it significantly exceeds this amount for the 2006 fiscal year. While BSW graduates take positions in a wide range of fields of practice, juvenile justice to services to the elderly, the BSW program contributes significantly to the professional development of the Child Welfare workforce in the state. Graduate level social work education, by accreditation standard, is required to offer advanced education in a specialized area or concentration. The concentration adopted by GSU School of Social Work was developed in collaboration with representatives of the human services profession in metropolitan Atlanta. The concentration focus has been revisited and re-affirmed by the School’s most recent strategic planning process. Further the high demand for MSW graduates by employers with the skill sets in Community Partnerships is an indication of the viability of the program’s strategic focus. Moreover, the concentration resonates with the mission and goals of both the College of Health and Human Sciences and the University. Opportunities for targeted expansion of both programs will be considered in the goals and objectives in Section H. 5. Resource analysis: An analysis of the resources expended in terms of the quality and quantity of instruction, research, and service contributions. When a self-study and an action plan exist for a prior cycle, the effects of changes in strategy and investment should be explained and analyzed. At the initial Academic Program Review during the first cycle and the subsequent action plan in 1995, the main objective for both school and the university’s funding was the implementation of the Masters of Social Work program. By any standard of measurement, the School of Social Work has made superb use of the funds. Exceptional faculty have been hired; a curriculum has been developed and instituted, and routinely evaluated and modified, quality students have been admitted, not only from pent-up demand, but consistently each year, and graduates have begun their professional careers and now are participating in the delivery of the program as field supervisors, part time instructors, membership on School Committees and the Community Advisory Council. The program with its unique Concentration in Community Partnerships has received national recognition during its brief history including an article co-authored by four faculty members that appeared in a special refereed issue on innovative contributions to social work in the Journal of Community Practice. Without exception, every site visitor and site visit team has lauded the School for it bold efforts to operationalize collaborative social work practice. Since the inception of the program, beginning with its inaugural graduating class in May 2000, the School has awarded over 150 MSW degrees. However, the University did not provide additional funding for an increase in faculty exclusively to develop the MSW program. As a newly designated research institution within the University System of Georgia, there was a reasonable expectation that these new faculty would produce scholarship and generate external funding. The faculty has not disappointed in this expectation. Three of the faculty hired since the action plan was approved have earned tenure and been promoted to Associate Professor. A fourth faculty member is under consideration for tenure and promotion this academic year. Conversely, two faculty members did not have their contract renewed at Pre-Tenure Review. In other words, the faculty has been very successful in publishing research articles in refereed journals. Equally impressive is the breadth and depth of the external grants and contracts the faculty in the School of Social Work have been awarded since the initial Academic Program Review. From 1995, when the faculty brought in no external dollars, the School has averaged $1 million per year for this review period and the amount is growing. The grants and contracts have covered a wide range of research and service from a broad array of funding sources. Faculty have received funding to implement and evaluate services to grandparents raising grandchildren, assess head start programming, evaluate substance abuse treatment programs for women on TANF, assess the gerontology curriculum in the undergraduate social work program, evaluate the capacity of community organizers to affect the use of the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC). In addition, the School has been awarded two very large contracts with the Department of Human Resources to contribute to the professionalization of the state Child Welfare workforce, including the previously mentioned Title IV E Child Welfare Training Grant and the recently awarded $1.5 million per year DHR Veteran’s Worker Training Grant to support professional excellence. In summary, all of the resources allocated to the School have resulted in the expected outcomes. Moreover, those dollars have been essentially leveraged through faculty accomplishments to earn additional dollars for the university through external funding and national status for the School of Social Work and the University. Accordingly, for the first time in 2005, Georgia State University School of Social Work was named in the U.S. News and World Report rankings despite the fact that the first MSW degrees had been awarded only four years previously. During the next post review cycle, the School’s will strive to improve its national recognition and ranking through achieving its goals and objectives delineated in Section H. Directory: files -> 2017 2017 -> Richard Overy. 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