Dear Students, Faculty, and Staff: Happy National Social Work Month! This is a great time to help others recognize the contributions of our profession as well as an opportunity for us to celebrate! The national theme from NASW is “Social Work: Forging Solutions Out of Challenges.” In keeping with other Schools of Social Work across […]
Letter to Students, January 2016
Dear Students, Faculty, and Staff: Welcome back to another great semester! We have a lot of news and events this Spring, many of which makes our program so vibrant. Faculty Monty Nominations Each year, students, faculty, and staff are invited to nominate faculty members for the university’s Faculty Monty, which recognizes faculty who have made […]
Letter to Students, November 2015
Dear Students, In the past, I have written to you towards the end of the semester, to touch base and to review our accomplishments over the past few months. We have had another great semester with about 550 students enrolled in our BSW, MSW, PhD and Gero programs. We have welcomed our first cohort of […]
Director’s Updates, Spring 2015
It seems hard to believe that another semester is almost over. What an exciting time it has been! Here are some of the highlights: Over this whole year, we had 324 social work students in field internships, along with 25 gerontology students, who worked a total of 167,000 hours, worth $2,500,000 to the San Diego […]
Director’s Updates, Winter 2014
As the semester draws to a close and the holidays approach, I wanted to take this time to write you and give you an update on the School of Social Work. The end of the semester is also a time for me to reflect on what has been accomplished by our terrific faculty and students. […]
