Points of Pride
The Raymond A. Kent School of Social Work has been accredited continuously by the Council on Social Work education since its founding in 1936.
- Graduates go on to distinguish themselves in many capacities:
- Administrators with national organizations such as the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children, Department of Veterans Affairs, and Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration.
- Administrators with the Kentucky Cabinet for Health and Family Services.
- Faculty positions with major universities around the country.
- Social work positions in almost every state in the country and many other countries throughout the world.
- The School is one of the highest producers of funding for research per faculty member in the University - approximately $4-5 million per year, with a total portfolio of about $15 million to support such research and training in the following areas:
- Child welfare
- Welfare reform
- Healthy relationship development
- Child sexual abuse
- Aging
- Addictions
- School-based Social Work
- Oncology Social Work
- The doctoral program admitted its first class in 1997 and now has many graduates and more than 40 students currently enrolled. View the most recent information on grad students, their dissertation and titles, as well as where they are now.
- The Marriage and Family Therapy program is the only accredited program in the country integrated into a social work program and is attracting applicants from all over the country.
- The BSW program provides workforce support to the Cabinet for Health and Families through assistantships made to students in the program to develop expertise in child welfare.
- The School has increased its commitment to international cooperation and exchange with more than ten official formal agreements with other countries. Students and faculty regularly travel to other countries, while their counterparts from other areas of the world come to the Kent School to study. The result has been the enrollment of Fulbright Scholars to the School on a continuing basis for more than a decade.
- The Kent School inaugurated the first endowed chair in oncology social work in the country and plans to become the school of destination nationally for those who wish to work in the field of oncology social work.
- Students from the Kent School provide more than $2 million in pro-bono service to Kentucky each year, and faculty serve on more than 80 community boards and committees in Louisville - making the Kent School a significant partner with the community.
- The School offers dual degree programs in law with the Brandeis School of Law at the University of Louisville, Pan African studies with the Department of Pan African Studies, Women and Gender Studies with that Department, and in divinity studies with the Louisville Presbyterian Theological Seminary.
- Faculty have been honored with distinguished level awards by the university as the tops in teaching, scholarship and service in the whole university.
- The John A. Hartford Foundation has designated multiple faculty members as Hartford Faculty Scholars for their advanced work in gerontology.
MSSW Prospective Student Session 02/22/2012
Congratulations to Noell Rowan
