University Rewards for Faculty Community Service
Survey data collected from deans and directors of graduate schools of social work indicate that community service is the least valued of faculty activities among faculty peers, deans, and university administrators. Publication and teaching are consistently the most valued and rewarded in tenure and promotion and other personnel decisions. Findings are discussed, and recommendations made that might help to close the gap between the need for service activities and the existing faculty reward system.
Deans' Quality Assessment of Faculty Publications for Tenure/Promotion Decisions
Abstract Social work educators seeking promotion and/or tenure must demonstrate achievement in the area of productive scholarship. Judgments are made by administrators regarding the quantity and quality of a candidate's record of publication. We surveyed deans of graduate programs to ascertain the importance of various factors in their quality assessment of a journal article or book publication. The findings are presented and discussed.
Development of a Profession: Field-Instruction Correlates
This article discusses field instruction in social work with reference to the development and maturation of professions. The premise is that professions go through phases as they develop starting with heavy reliance on the field for practice skill acquisition, proceeding to an equal sharing between the field and the university, and culminating in the assumption of major responsibility by the university. It is suggested that social work is in the middle phase. Professional maturation will require increased responsibility by schools of social work for the transmission of the skills of practice to students. Various approaches and formats to achieve this are discussed and diverse training methods, including service and training centers and skills laboratories, are described.