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SSW has identified the following major educational goals:
- Strengthen and promote our educational programs and urban mission.
- Create forums to enhance the School’s intellectual learning community.
- Improve the quality of the existing MSW educational programs with regard to curriculum currency, innovative teaching models, quality of applicants, and student performance.
- Develop a nationally recognized and highly competitive doctoral program.
- Advance our national reputation as a top-ranked school of social work.
Because Goals 1 and 2 are the major ones for SSW at this time, strategies and potential initiatives for these are given below. (Note also that Goals 2 and 4 also pertain directly to building research and scholarly excellence described in the next section.)
Goal 1: To strengthen and promote our educational programs and urban mission, we propose to:
- Recruit and enroll more Massachusetts urban area students, including newcomers to this country.
- Identify scholarship funds specifically aimed at urban low-income students.
- Enhance our public visibility (e.g., via website, formal documents) as a premier urban school of social work with an interdisciplinary focus in all programs.
- Identify scholarship funds specifically aimed at urban low-income students.
- Expand innovative models of urban practice.
- Expand our existing highly successful urban field internship programs.
- Develop a new field internship and research site at the Justice Resource Center in Boston and seek funding for this purpose.
- Utilize funded faculty urban research and training projects as internship sites for MSW students.
- Systematically incorporate new content and methods on emerging social issues and interventions into the curriculum, following the recently initiated curriculum renewal process.
- Create a standing subcommittee of the Curriculum Committee charged with designing and implementing a curriculum renewal process on an ongoing basis.
Goal 2: To strengthen the intellectual learning community, we propose to:
- Provide more colloquia and seminars for faculty and students.
- Launch a regular interdisciplinary lecture series with invited speakers of particular interest to the SSW community.
- Promote interdisciplinary collaboration in research and educational programs.
- Invite and support scholars from other disciplines to spend several days at SSW to give talks and consult with faculty and students.
- Integrate SSW educational and research activities within one building.
- Explore whether existing designated research space in the 232 Bay State Road building can be relocated in the 264 Bay State Road building.
- Create an additional classroom within this building.
- Strengthen the doctoral program’s interdisciplinary focus.
- Expand the program to encompass relevant disciplines such as psychology, political science, and public health.
- Create more opportunities for doctoral and master’s students in faculty-supported research.
- Identify and secure additional external research and training grants to create funded research assistantships and internships.
- Pay faculty commensurate with peer institutions to recruit and retain the best scholars.
- Gather data on pay levels at key competitive schools to determine appropriate compensation.
- Gather data on pay levels at key competitive schools to determine appropriate compensation.
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