Tag: Social Work
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Registration closes this week for “Critical Cultural Competency”
Registration closes this Friday for the Social Work-sponsored workshop, “Critical Cultural Competency.” It will be held from 8:30 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. Monday, June 15, in the Phoenix Room. This workshop, developed and facilitated by Crossroads Antiracism Organizing & Training, is “designed to help participants create the spaces to be self-reflective about our cultural shaping…
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Reminder: Social Work hosts ‘Critical Cultural Competency’ workshop
The Social Work Professional Program is sponsoring a workshop titled “Critical Cultural Competency” on Monday, June 15, in the Phoenix Room. This workshop, developed and facilitated by Crossroads Antiracism Organizing & Training is “designed to help participants create the spaces to be self-reflective about our cultural shaping as individuals and institutions, understand the power dynamics…
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Social Work sponsors ‘Critical Cultural Competency’ workshop June 15
The Social Work Professional Program is sponsoring a workshop titled “Critical Cultural Competency” on Monday, June 15, in the Phoenix Room. This workshop, developed and facilitated by Crossroads Antiracism Organizing & Training (http://crossroadsantiracism.org/) is “designed to help participants create the spaces to be self-reflective about our cultural shaping as individuals and institutions, understand the power…
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Celebrating the ‘new’ UW-Green Bay MSW
UW-Green Bay, operating for the first time as its own freestanding program, celebrated the “new” Master of Social Work Program on April 29 with a welcome/orientation session in the University Union for students of the program. The students were greeted by Dean Sue Mattison of the College of Professional Studies and welcomed by members of…
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UW-Green Bay establishes chapter of social work honor society Phi Alpha
The UW-Green Bay Social Work program and its students recently agreed to join Phi Alpha Honor Society, the only honor society exclusive to social work students. The chapter name is Phi Delta. They will be holding their first induction ceremony Thursday, May 7, from 11:30 a.m. to 12:15 p.m. in Rose Hall 315, inducting 24…
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Faculty note: Akakpo publication
Tohoro (Francis) Akakpo, assistant professor of Social Work, is one of three co-authors of a paper featured this month in the international Journal of Sexual Aggression, published by Routledge in the United Kingdom. The article is titled “Comparison of non-sexual crimes committed by juvenile sexual offenders and delinquent youth in residential treatment in the USA.”…
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UW-Green Bay English alumna writes in favor of funding education
Angela Bub of Benicia, Calif., a May 2012 UW-Green Bay graduate in English now pursuing a master’s in social work at the University of Southern California, is the author of a guest column on the Feb. 4 opinion page of the Green Bay Press-Gazette. She writes, “Humanities is not a field of education; humanities is…
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To honor and to serve: Alumnus endows scholarship in name of Social Work’s Baer
When Doug Wirth began attending UW-Green Bay as a transfer student, he was struggling. Struggling with his father’s recent suicide. Struggling with his sexuality. And like so many college students, struggling to find his place in the world. It was the mid-1980s, and the Fond du Lac native had just transferred to UW-Green Bay. He’d…
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Scholarship for late Prof. Baer nears goal
The memorial scholarship for Social Work Prof. Betty Baer is just shy of its goal of $12,500 for endowed status. The scholarship was established prior to Baer’s passing with a matching gift from alumnus Doug Wirth ’89. Wirth’s goal is to ensure that Baer’s mantra of “think globally, act locally” reaches UW-Green Bay students for generations…
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Oneida leader shares traditional teachings with graduates
Oneida tribal leader and UW-Green Bay graduate Cristina (Tina) Danforth delivered the commencement address at her alma mater Saturday (Dec. 13), sharing a First Nations perspective and encouraging members of the class of 2014 to give back to their communities. “It is said in our culture that each individual is born with a gift from…