Social Work

Scholarship and Preparation
Field Education
Field Education provides social work students with hands-on, challenging field placements that put education into practice.
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Seminar Series
Policy Practice in Field Education Initiative: Social Work Practice in Integrated Care—a three-part seminar series.
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Learning Opportunities
Center for Child and Family Wellbeing
Mission: To foster an interdisciplinary focus on a broad range of issues and challenges faced by today's children and families.
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Our Graduates
Alumnae/i Involvement
Alumnae/i are engaged and active, such as this group with the Smithsonian’s Cooper Hewitt exhibit By the People.
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Winter Weather
School Closing Information
Find out if the GSSWSR is closed due to weather
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Janet Shapiro Next Dean of GSSWSR in 2017
Janet Shapiro has been appointed as the new dean of the Graduate School of Social Work and Social Research starting in July 2017.
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The Center seeks to enhance the career-long learning objectives of professional social workers, counselors, and marriage and family therapists.

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Non Profit Executive Leadership Institute

The Nonprofit Executive Leadership Institute offers nonprofit executives and ascending leaders the tools and time they need to examine and refine their leadership and management skills.

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Like Bryn Mawr College as a whole, the GSSWSR is distinctive for its dedication to fine teaching, attentiveness to individual students, and high academic standards within a liberal arts tradition. Founded in 1915, the GSSWSR has from inception embraced scholarship, practice, and collaboration within a broad construction of social work and social welfare.

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