The School of Social Work Honor Society, the Chi Omega chapter of Phi Alpha inducted 18 students into the national honor society on Tuesday, Nov. 15. Phi Alpha seeks to provide closer bonds among students of social work and promote humanitarian goals and ideals. Phi Alpha also fosters high standards of education for social work students. Phi Alpha advisor, Professor […]
Dr. Jeremy Carney presents the opening keynote address at the 2016 Northern Plains Conference on Aging and Disability. The presentation was entitled “Social Work Practice Ethics and Social Media.”
Dr. Jeremy Carney, from the MSUM School of Social Work, presented an ethics training on September 15, 2016 for the Minnesota Social Service Association as part of their Northwest conference. The presentation focuses on ethical relationships for helping professionals with a special emphasis on the challenges of social media use.
Five faculty — Mary Dosch, Janelle Miedema, David Paul, Vicki Riedinger, and Lisa Stewart — just returned from a leading a two week study abroad in Peru with 23 students. For the second year in a row, the group was a cross disciplinary service-oriented group consisting of undergraduate and graduate students from education, psychology, speech language hearing sciences, counseling and […]
Shawn Ginther (Social Work) and Sue Humphers-Ginther (Sociology and Criminal Justice) have been invited and agreed to serve as co-managing editors of the peer-reviewed journal Contemporary Rural Social Work. CRSW is the publication of the National Rural Social Work Caucus, and the essential journal dedicated to publishing scholarship on rural social work policy, practice, and teaching in the United States.