Equity Case Studies Report - School of Social Work - University of ...

UBC school of social work equity and diversity strategic plan: A compilation of case studies 20
UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, BERKELEY
Background Information on the School of Social Welfare
The University of California (UC) Berkeley, School of Social Welfare is one of the oldest
Social Work graduate programs in the United States (School of Social Welfare, University of
California, Berkeley, 2012). The School developed out of an undergraduate curriculum in Social
Services in the 1930’s into a professional program in 1944 (School of Social Welfare, University
of California, Berkeley, 2012). It now offers an undergraduate major in Social Welfare, Master
of Social Work, and PhD program (School of Social Welfare, University of California, Berkeley,
2012). The School of Social Welfare is made up of twenty-three full-time faculty, twenty-four
lecturers, and fourteen staff members (See Appendix C for faculty members’ areas of research).
The School of Social Welfare began to develop their Equity, Inclusion and Diversity
Strategic Plan in the autumn of 2010. It followed UC Berkeley’s Initiative for Equity, Inclusion
and Diversity. (See Appendix D for information on UC Berkeley’s Initiative for Equity,
Inclusion and Diversity.)
Description of Educational Equity Initiatives
The main focus of the third goal of UC Berkeley’s EID Strategic Plan involved
encouraging each department at the university to develop an EID Strategic Plan specific to the
needs of their program. As such, in the autumn of 2010, the School of Social Welfare began to
create their Equity, Inclusion and Diversity Strategic Plan. The objectives of the School of
Social Welfare’s EID Strategic Plan include graduate student outreach, graduate student support,