Despite the ongoing challenges of the pandemic we all face in our daily lives, not all is bad news. Jennifer Luna, director of the DiNitto Career Center, shares how some economic and systemic consequences of the pandemic may provide new opportunities for social workers searching for jobs in 2021. The… read more
Issues
Reflections of a first-gen social work student
By Grace Farley, BSW ’21 In my second year on the Forty Acres, I was hired as the inaugural resident assistant (RA) for the First-Generation Living Learning Community, UT Austin’s first residence hall for students who are the first in their families to go to college. As an RA, I… read more
Winter of 2021
By Nicole Gollis Golden, MSSW ’04 On Thursday at 5:00 a.m, power was restored at my home in Austin after 75 hours without heat or electricity. For those few days, the temperature read 44 degrees inside during the daytime, while lows outside dipped into the single digits at night. In… read more
