School of
Social Welfare
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Online Catalog
Administration
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The School and Its Programs
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Master of Social Work
Application Procedure
for All Optioins
Credit for Course
Work Taken
Outside the School of Social
Welfare
Joint Degree Program in Social
Work and Law (M.S.W./J.D.)
Testing Out of First-year Courses
Post-graduate Education Options
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Doctor of Philosophy
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General Student Information
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Social Work Courses
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Field Practicum Agenices
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We are pleased you are considering a career in social work.
The School of Social Welfare has a 55-year history of helping students
use their talents and experience to develop the sophisticated perspective
and complex skills needed for professional social work practice. Our educational
programs blend the profession’s powerful history of commitment to
vulnerable groups with the most up-to-date approaches for helping people
achieve their goals. The school has developed the strengths perspective
for social work practice, an approach receiving national and international
attention as a positive strategy for supporting life-affirming change.
Our goal is to develop self-reflective practitioners
who have a strong sense of social justice, who are willing to examine
their taken-for-granted assumptions, who honor diversity, and who are
able to bring both compassion and passion to the art of helping. If this
vision matches yours, we invite you to pursue your interest in a social
work program at the University of Kansas.
—Ann Weick, Dean
The Kansas Board of Regents
Richard L. Bond, Overland Park
Janice B. DeBauge, Emporia
Christine Downey-Schmidt, Inman
Frank Gaines, Augusta
Nelson Galle, Manhattan
James R. Grier III, Wichita
Dan Lykins, Topeka
Janie Perkins, Garden City
Donna L. Shank, Liberal
Reginald Robinson,
President and CEO
1000 Southwest Jackson St., Suite 520
Topeka, KS 66612-1368
Telephone: (785) 296-3421
Fax: (785) 296-0983
www.kansasregents.org
The University of Kansas
The University of Kansas, founded in 1866, has long been known for its commitment to academic excellence. With a faculty of 2,100 and a student body of 29,000, KU serves as a major resource for teaching, scholarship, and service for the state, the region, and the nation. KU awards doctorates in 61 fields and master’s degrees in nearly 100. The libraries, with more than 3.8 million printed volumes, many maps, photographs, documents, microforms, and several historic collections, are among the largest in the Midwest.
The university’s
main campus occupies 1,000 acres in Lawrence, a community of about 80,000
among the
forested
hills of eastern Kansas. Lawrence is 40 miles west of Kansas City and
30 miles east of Topeka, the state capital. The Lawrence campus is on
Mount Oread, one of several bluffs in the Kansas and Wakarusa river
valleys.
University Administration
Robert Hemenway, Chancellor
David E. Shulenburger, Provost and Executive Vice Chancellor,
Lawrence campus
Barbara F. Atkinson, Executive Vice Chancellor, Medical
Center, and Executive Dean, School of Medicine
Paul Carttar, Executive Vice Chancellor for External Affairs
David Adkins, Vice Chancellor for External Affairs, Medical
Center
Lynn Bretz, Director of University Relations, Lawrence campus
Robert M. Clark, Vice Chancellor, KU Edwards Campus
Warren Corman, University Architect and Special Assistant
to the Chancellor
Irene Cumming, Chief Executive Officer, the University of
Kansas Hospital
William L. (Lindy) Eakin, Associate Provost, Support Services,
Lawrence campus
Sandra Gautt, Vice Provost for Faculty Development, Lawrence
campus
Shelley Gebar, Chief of Staff, Medical Center
Joan Hunt, Vice Chancellor for Research and President, Research
Institute, Medical Center
Theresa K. Klinkenberg, Chief Business and Financial Planning
Officer, Lawrence campus
James Long, Vice Provost for Facilities Planning and Management,
Lawrence campus
Kathleen McCluskey-Fawcett, Senior Vice Provost for Academic
Affairs, Lawrence campus
Karen Miller, Senior Vice Chancellor for Academic and Student
Affairs and Dean, Schools of Allied Health and Nursing, Medical
Center
Dennis Moss, University Director of Internal Audit
Lew Perkins, Director of Athletics
Edward Phillips, Vice Chancellor for Administration, Medical
Center
James Pottorff Jr., University General Counsel
Allen Rawitch, Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs and
Dean of Graduate Studies, Medical Center
James A. Roberts, Vice Chancellor for Research and President
and Chief Operating Officer, KU Center for Research, Lawrence campus
Marlesa Roney, Vice Provost for Student Success, Lawrence
campus
JoAnn Smith, Vice Provost for University Outreach and Dean,
Continuing Education
Donald W. Steeples, Vice Provost for Scholarly
Support, Lawrence campus
Denise Stephens, Vice Provost for Information Services,
Lawrence campus
Deborah J. Teeter, University Director of Institutional
Research and Planning
Douglas Whitman, University Ombudsman
School of Social Welfare Administration
Ann Weick, Ph.D., Dean
Thomas MacDonald, Ph.D., Associate Dean, Research
Rick Spano, Ph.D., Associate Dean, Academic Programs
Ed Canda, Ph.D., Chair, Ph.D. Program
Kris Matthews, M.S.W., Assistant Director of Field Education
Lori Messinger, Ph.D., Director of B.S.W. Program
Kay Lynne Myers, M.S.W., Program Director, Edwards campus
Jean Peterson, Ph.D., Director of Field Education