Commission on Membership and Professional Development

Commission on Membership and Professional Development

Charge From the Board of Directors


The Commission on Membership and Professional Development (CMPD) will support the Council on Conferences and Faculty Development, Council on Leadership Development, and Council on Publications; as well as facilitate and integrate the development of innovative programs, methods, and materials that enhance and strengthen the delivery of social work education. CMPD serves as a resource to guide and recommend Annual Program Meeting structure and content, membership recruitment and retention strategies, development of leadership skills within social work education, and CSWE publication policies. The overarching goal of these activities is to maximize educational outcomes as evidenced in the form of highly competent social work graduates. The guiding principle for the Commission is to approach professional development with a spirit of creative inquiry that promotes inclusion and unity among social work educators.

Councils

Report to the Board of Directors, Feb 2022

Chair

Member

Chair

  • Donna Aguiniga

    Assistant Dean and Professor

    University of Alaska, Anchorage

Co-Chair

Member

Chair

  • Stacey Kolomer

    Director of the School of Social Work

    University of North Carolina at Wilmington

Co-Chair

  • Catherine Simmons

    Professor, Social Work Chair, and MSW Director

    University of Colorado, Colorado Springs

Members

  • Teri Kennedy

    Associate Dean and Professor

    University of Kansas

  • Nancy Kropf

    Georgia State University

  • Diane Mitschke

    Associate Dean & Associate Professor

    University of Texas at Arlington

  • Deana Morrow

    West Virginia University

  • Scott Ryan

    School of Social Work, The University of Texas at Arlington

  • Sherrill Sellers

    Associate Dean for Undergraduate Education and Professor

    Miami University - Ohio

  • Allison Zippay

    Professor and PhD Program Director

    Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey

Chair

Member

  • Qiana Cryer-Coupet

    Associate Professor of Social Work

    Andrew Young School of Policy Studies, Georgia State University

  • Jennifer Elkins

    Associate Professor and Director of the MSW Program

    University of Georgia

  • Erlene Grise-Owens

    MSW Program Director

    Spalding University

  • Nalini Negi

    Assistant Professor

    University of Maryland

  • Jason Ostrander

    Associate Professor of Social Work

    Anna Maria College

  • Danielle E. Parrish

    Professor, Director of Baylor IMPACT Lab

    Diana R. Garland School of Social Work, Baylor University

  • Renata Sledge

    Assistant Professor, Social Work Program Chair

    Fontbonne University

  • Katherine van Wormer

    Professor Emerita of Social Work

    University of Northern Iowa

  • Viola Vaughan-Eden

    Professor and PhD Program Director

    Norfolk State University