Center for Diversity and Social & Economic Justice Volunteer Application Information
Interested in serving on the Center for Diversity and social & Economic Advisory Board? You can find out more information about serving on the Advisory Board and how to submit an application on the Center for Diversity Volunteers page.
Interested in Contributing Conent?
The CSWE Center for Diversity and Social & Economic Justice is proud to announce a new initiative for the academic year 2024-2025 to celebrate the lived experiences of diversity among our students, educators, practitioners and researchers. We are especially pleased that the 2022 Educational Policies and Accreditation Standards (EPAS) articulate a clear commitment of social work education to principles of anti-racism, diversity, equity and inclusion.
As the national education organization of our profession, CSWE promotes a competency-based education framework and while EPAS competencies 2 and 3 explicitly address diversity, the enduring commitment is to promote the integration of an anti-oppressive orientation in the learning and mastery of all the competencies.
The target audience for the Center resources is BSW, MSW, DSW and PhD students, and faculty, practitioners and researchers at all stages of their careers. This new initiative centers you and seeks to showcase your journey in the profession as a student, educator, practitioner and researcher.
You have the opportunity to be the content generator, guided by your own journey and there are three ways you can contribute:
1. State of the Art Literature, learn more or submit here
2. Blogosphere, learn more or submit here
3. Zoom Interviews and Social Media Showcase, learn more or submit here
Submit your content by September 9, 2024!
About the Center for Diversity
The Center for Diversity and Social & Economic Justice provides social work education with the opportunity and the means to support greater diversity and social and economic justice in education, teaching, research, curricula, institutional arrangements, and leadership development.
The Center is also a resource to prepare social workers with the knowledge and skills to engage in effective practice with diverse populations and to help transform social systems in pursuit of more humane and equitable conditions.
Our foundation for this learning:
- We are concerned with increasing an understanding of the richness of people’s cultural backgrounds and perspectives along ethnoracial, gender and gender identity, sexual orientation, religious, and other intersectional dimensions.
- We strive to develop a critical awareness of conditions of social injustice and their consequences, with a focus on economic and environmental injustice, including the role of social exclusion as a mechanism of oppression.
Educator Resource of the Month
The Educator|Resource of the Month brings together curated pedagogical approaches to antiracism education and the promotion of diversity, equity, and social justice education. The resources featured are drawn from the state of the art in the field and map to the CSWE 2022 Educational Policy and Accreditation Standards competencies in diversity and social justice. Educators can use the materials for developing assignments or a variety of teaching activities. The Educator|Resource is published on the second Tuesday of each month.
Center Library Featured Book
The Routledge International Handbook of Social Work Education, the most complete compilation of analyses of social work education to date: its key issues, its response to current needs, and its future.
Up Next for the Educator|Resoure
Living as Genderqueer
A window into living as genderqueer through Maia Kobabe’s short graphic memoir (and supplemental teaching resources that we put together).