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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. The New Social Worker Winter 2013 23