Higher education is in a moment of systemic crisis; the next 20 years will bring significant change, but the nature of that change is still up for grabs. Higher education also contains wellsprings of creativity and innovation in support of engaged, equitable, holistic learning, but these are siloed and piecemeal. Positive, systemic change is…

Clinical supervisors serve an essential role in the field of teacher preparation. Despite acknowledgment of the complexity of this work, supervisors are often marginalized, provided inadequate support in their roles, and seen as evaluators for individual student teachers as opposed to part of a larger program. Instead of positioning clinical…

Congress has provided authority to the U.S. Department of Defense (DOD) to fund off-duty voluntary education for Active and Reserve Component servicemembers. Congress and DOD have conceived of tuition assistance (TA) as a quality-of-life benefit, force-shaping tool, and a mechanism for developing human capital in the Armed Forces. The TA program,…

Initiated in 1952, the Council on Social Work Education (CSWE) Annual Survey illuminates the state of social work education including enrollment and graduation trends, and the student experience. This annual state of social work education report provides a comprehensive overview of Baccalaureate, Master's, Practice Doctorate, and PhD in social…

Undergraduate marketing degrees have been shown to have the same impact on post-graduation income for marketing jobs as non-marketing undergraduate degrees for similar marketing jobs. Moreover, having a marketing degree has been shown to not impact long-term career satisfaction. However, previous research has not accounted for the possible…

Teacher education faculty are often expected to engage in accreditation work. Our purpose was to document the collective driving mechanisms of junior faculty who volunteered to redesign key accreditation assessments. Specifically, we explored the values and expectations for success that led junior faculty to engage in and persist through key…

The Annual Survey of Social Work Programs (Annual Survey) is a census of social work programs in the United States and its territories conducted by the Council on Social Work Education (CSWE) since 1952. Data collected in the Annual Survey are the primary source of information about social work students, graduates, and faculty members. In addition…