SSW Pride Sheet (PDF) - School of Social Work

College of Human Environmental Sciences
Pride…in achievements and excellence
2011-2012 Highlights
400-680 hours that field
instructors donate while supervising
each SW student, each
semester
85,080 hours per year that BSW and MSW
students generate in professional education service in
their field placement settings for social service agencies
(local, regional, state and international)
76 off-campus students
in north and
southeast Missouri
Faculty/staff achievements
• Dale Fitch, PhD, Social Work assistant professor,
received a 2012 Provost’s Outstanding Junior Faculty
Teaching Award.
• Suzanne Cary, director of field instruction, was named
Outstanding Faculty Member by the School of Social
Work Alumni Organization for 2012.
• Claudia Jones-Lewis, administrative associate II, and
Elizabeth Miller, grantwriter II, received Distinguished
Staff Awards in HES.
• Mansoo Yu, PhD, MSW, was appointed to the editorial
board of the Journal of the Society for Social Work
and Research (JSSWR). The journal is an official publication
of the Society for Social Work and Research
(SSWR).
Student achievements
• Outstanding Seniors – Kristen Nicole Allcorn,
Elizabeth Moran Doyle, Amanda Ruth Mejia, Katherine
Lynne Miller, Jennifer Teeter-Hoernig, Meagan
Vincenz, Jennifer Jean West.
• 2011 Alumni Association Awards – BSW Student:
Kam Phillips, BSW ‘12; MSW Student: Kelly
Jackson, MSW ‘12; PhD Student: Michelle Kaiser
PhD ’12.
• Antaniece Sills, BSW/HDFS major, won two NAACP
awards—the Barbara Jordan Student of the Year and
the Charles Hamilton Houston Collegiate Achievement
Award.
• Abigail (Abby) Rolbiecki, MSW and PhD student,
was elected into the Rollins Society. Abby also
received a Master’s in Public Health in May 2012.
Program achievements
• In February 2012, the Council of Social Work Education
reaffirmed the School’s accreditation for eight
years (until 2020).
• MU’s SSW is the only social work program in the state
of Missouri that is specifically designed for the needs of
rural students in the entire northern, southeast and south
central regions of the state.
• In 2011-2012, the MSW Program had a 22% enroll ment
growth and graduated 101 masters level social workers.
• The MSW Program recently received approval from the
Missouri Department of Higher Education to expand
our Off-campus MSW Program to south central Missouri
beginning fall 2012.
• A new graduate certificate in Gerontological Social Work
for practicing social workers and current MSW students
has been approved. The certificate focuses on practice
strategies of social work intervention from micro, mezzo
and macro perspectives. Coursework began in fall 2011.
• The School has also created a new graduate certificate
and scholarship in Military Social Work. This certificate
was created in response to a growing need for trained
social workers to work with veterans, active military
and their families with issues related to deployment and
reintegration.

College of Human Environmental Sciences
Pride…in achievements and excellence
2011-2012 Highlights (continued)
1907: Mizzou became
home to the first public MSW
program west of the Mississippi
River.
A 22% increase in demand for professional
social workers is predicted during 2006-16, which
is much faster than the average for all occupations.
(U.S. Dept. of Labor, Bureau of Labor Statistics).
96 professional degrees
were awarded in 2010-11 (42
BSW and 54 MSW).
• The SSW offers the only publicly sponsored PhD
program in Social Work in the state of Missouri.
• The SSW and the Department of Personal Financial
Planning have collaborated to provide a minor in
Financial Literacy for Helping Professionals.
• In fall 2011, ranked School of Social Work faculty
taught 4,212 student credit hours. Ranked faculty
includes all tenure-track and non-regular assistant,
associate and full professors.
Left to right: Katie Lappe, MSW ‘10; Aneisa Sherrill-
Mattox, 2012 MSW Field Instructor of the Year; and
Mary Ford, MSW ‘12. Photo by Diane Davis.
Field awards
• Aneisa Sherrill-Mattox, MSW, LCSW, executive director
at Welcome Home, housing for homeless veterans -
MSW Field Instructor of the Year, May 2012.
• Kristi Turner, MSW, LCSW, shelter director at Rainbow
House, emergency shelter for children - BSW Field
Instructor of the Year, December 2011.
• Christina Montgomery, BSW, received the MSW Field
Instructor of the Year award in May 2011.
Development & alumni
• The School of Social Work has 25 endowed scholarships
presently. In 2011-12, there were 29 scholarships
awarded.
• In summer 2011, the Social Work Alumni Association
won 2nd place in the new member recruitment contest
for small schools/colleges with fewer than 4,000 members.
The $250 prize was used for a summer scholarship
for Daniel Stribling.
• Stan Remer, MSW ‘68, was selected the 2012 Faculty
Member of the Year for Valley Forge Christian College –
Woodbridge campus (Va.).
Grants and research
• In fiscal year 2011, the School was awarded $883,462 in
external grant awards; only two other departments in the
College had more grant awards.
• The largest award in 2011 was from the Mo. Dept. of Social
Services; this contract provided more than $300,000
to support part-time course work, leading to the MSW
degree for 38 students.
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