2008 Woodie Awards
Social Work program prepares students to challenge injustice, become effective leaders
Issue date: 9/16/05 Section: Welcome Letters
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On behalf of the faculty and staff, I am pleased to welcome you to the University of Washington, Tacoma and congratulate you on your acceptance into the Social Work program.
Established in 1998, the Social Work program at UWT was developed in collaboration with the School of Social Work at UW Seattle to provide place bound residents in the South Sound region access to quality social work education.
Starting just seven years ago with a small cohort of Master of Social Work students, the Social Work program has since grown to include a Bachelor of Arts in Social Welfare, which opened in Autumn 2002, and has graduated nearly 200 alumni.
As you embark upon your educational journey in the Social Work program, know that we will strive to prepare you to become an effective leader in the profession who will challenge injustice and promote a more humane society. It is also our goal that you become a social worker whose actions will be guided by vision, compassion, knowledge, disciplined discovery and a deep respect for cultural diversity, building on human strengths.
You are preparing to enter the profession of social work at a time of tremendous challenge. Social workers are needed to collaborate in solving pressing and complex societal and global problems.
Socioeconomic inequities are widening. We are seeing profound modifications in the delivery of social and health services. Dramatic demographic changes are occurring in the numbers of people of color, immigrants, refugees, and older people. We face the reality of terrorism and threats to civil liberties. Worldwide technological changes are altering the ways in which we communicate in an increasingly complex global economy.
You are fortunate to be joining a program where the faculty and staff are strongly committed to preparing you for the complex practice world of the 21st century. Our program affirms the social work tradition of social change and emphasizes the individual in interaction with the larger environment.
Established in 1998, the Social Work program at UWT was developed in collaboration with the School of Social Work at UW Seattle to provide place bound residents in the South Sound region access to quality social work education.
Starting just seven years ago with a small cohort of Master of Social Work students, the Social Work program has since grown to include a Bachelor of Arts in Social Welfare, which opened in Autumn 2002, and has graduated nearly 200 alumni.
As you embark upon your educational journey in the Social Work program, know that we will strive to prepare you to become an effective leader in the profession who will challenge injustice and promote a more humane society. It is also our goal that you become a social worker whose actions will be guided by vision, compassion, knowledge, disciplined discovery and a deep respect for cultural diversity, building on human strengths.
You are preparing to enter the profession of social work at a time of tremendous challenge. Social workers are needed to collaborate in solving pressing and complex societal and global problems.
Socioeconomic inequities are widening. We are seeing profound modifications in the delivery of social and health services. Dramatic demographic changes are occurring in the numbers of people of color, immigrants, refugees, and older people. We face the reality of terrorism and threats to civil liberties. Worldwide technological changes are altering the ways in which we communicate in an increasingly complex global economy.
You are fortunate to be joining a program where the faculty and staff are strongly committed to preparing you for the complex practice world of the 21st century. Our program affirms the social work tradition of social change and emphasizes the individual in interaction with the larger environment.