Fall 2017

While sexual harassment is a common experience for college students, we know little about incidences in social work field placements and how prepared students and field instructors are to deal with this issue. In an exploratory survey of 535 students, professor Leila Wood found that only 51 percent of them… read more 

Former Texas state senator Wendy Davis made the case for embracing feminism and engaging in civic action during the 2017 School of Social Work’s Otis Lecture this past spring semester. Davis recalled that the first time she attended a city council meeting as an advocate she was struck by the… read more 

This past spring, clinical professors Robin Smith and Sarah Sloan shared U.S. perspectives on teaching social work practice with colleagues at the Pontificia Universidad Católica in Santiago, Chile, through Skype sessions. In the summer, they made a week-long trip to Santiago where they met daily with their Chilean colleagues to… read more