Welcome to the Fall 2009 semester! Due to a broad array of legislative, CSU, and CSULB decisions designed to address our state budget shortfall; students, faculty, and staff will experience significant challenges during the academic year. These challenges will not only test our resolve as a learning community but will also require the full inclusion and participation of everyone affected in order to identify and implement fair and equitable solutions. I am confident that the university community and our department will address the consequences of inadequate resources during the current year in a compassionate and caring manner. Our profession’s Code of Ethics mandates that we must do so.
I am honored to welcome all new and continuing social work students to the start of another academic year. May the Fall semester provide experiences that induce intellectual growth, provide personal joy, and bring about new and novel opportunities to be of service to others.
Sincerely,
John Oliver, Ph.D.
The Department of Social Work mourns the loss of a great friend, mentor, and scholar, Dr. Jillian Jimenez, who died on October 15, 2009.
In our grief, we must also celebrate a life rich with commitment to changing social ills, and a life dedicated to guiding the next generation of social change agents. Her remarkable legacy includes her most recent publication of a social policy textbook:
Jimenez, J. (2010). Social Policy and Social Change: Toward the Creation of Social and Economic Justice, Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications (www.sagepub.com/jimenez).
We celebrate a vibrant intellect who challenged both faculty and students to envision a more just society through active engagement. The impact she has had on thousands of students cannot be measured. She inspired her students to think critically and with caring.
We celebrate a colleague whose sense of humor and camaraderie will be sorely missed. She has touched us all in many ways. These are but a few of the adjectives we would use to describe her: brilliant, fearless, jubilant, vivacious, generous, personal as well as personable, effusive, and ebullient.
She was a brilliant star in our lives and in our social work community. She will continue to burn brightly in our hearts and in our actions. CSULB Department of Social Work
CSULB Department of Social Work Collaborates on Federally Funded Kinship Care Project
New Continuing Education Courses Offered for 2009-2010
Current Faculty Recruitment
The CSULB Department of Social Work is currently recruiting for the position of Director (Tenured, Full Professor) effective August, 2010.
Please click here for this position announcement and more information
Due to the California state budget reductions, the Department of Social Work will be closed on the following dates during the Fall 2009 semester:
Grant-funded faculty and staff will be available in the Department of Social Work should circumstances arise regarding field placements.
