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Social Work Students in Action!

Marywood University MSW students visited the
Republic of Korea as part of their course Global
Perspectives on Social and Administrative Practices.
The Marywood students are shown here with three
Korean students who served as guides while they
toured Buddhist temples.

Two MacMurray College
seniors, Kelly Ambrose and
Mendy Overly, are working
on a community garden.
Produce from the garden
has been donated to area
agencies. They have also
started an Environmental
Justice Committee of the
Social Work Club at
MacMurray College.

BSW students from the University of Maine Presque
Isle traveled to Moshi, Tanzania, in June 2011 for
two weeks of service learning.

The Social Work Alliance at Frostburg State University participated in neighborhood clean-ups.

Monmouth University social work students went
to Chile to work with a group of youth to carry
out a summer camp for children in a shantytown.
Some of the children asked them to hold this sign
that they had made. The theme of the camp was
the UN Covenant on the Rights of the Child, and
this sign says, “My right is to play.”
Plymouth State University social
work students (above) took a Habitat for Humanity trip to Martinsville, IN, during spring break.

BSW graduates, students, and elders attended the
University of Alaska, Fairbanks Department of
Social Work BSW Cohort Conference, “Healing
the Past and Looking Forward,” April 2012.
The Social Work
Club at Union College supported coal
miners and their
families at a recent
Hands of Coal event
in Knox County, KY.
World AIDS Day 2011 in front of the social work
building at Mississippi Valley State University.

Students and faculty from the
St. Augustine College BSW
program in Chicago, Illinois,
are shown above at the 20th
Annual ILACHE (Illinois Latino Council on Higher Education) Professional and Student
Development Conference.

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