Bachelor of Social Work Receives CSWE Candidacy Status
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Bachelor of Social Work Receives CSWE Candidacy Status
On June 16, 2000, the Presidents Council of State Colleges and Universities
approved the Social Work Baccalaureate Degree and Major at Central Michigan
University. The result of this decision is that students will begin to
enroll in a
Social Work major in the Fall of 2001. Upon completion of the degree
requirements,
they will graduate with an earned Baccalaureate Degree in Social Work (BSW).
The new Bachelor's of Social Work (BSW) degree was granted "candidacy
status"
on February 12, 2001, in the accreditation process by the Council on Social Work
Education (CSWE). Candidacy status means that the CSWE Commission on
Accreditation has found compliance with all the Candidacy Evaluative Criteria.
The program enters candidacy status for two years, while continuing to fully
develop its compliance with accreditation standards in concert with the
Commission.
The development of the Social Work BSW degree and major and the granting
of the CSWE candidacy status was supported in part by New Initiative Funds.
The Next Step
Candidacy is a period during which a program develops its ability to comply
with
accreditation standards. Each year while in candidacy, the program will
prepare
a progress report, which serves to inform the commissioner who makes the
annual
visit. The first year's progress report should address as many of the
Evaluative
Standards as possible, to allow full commissioner feedback for the program.
In the second year the commissioner's site visit report addresses
continued
compliance with Candidacy Evaluation Criteria and progress toward
compliance
with Evaluative Standards and the Curriculum Policy Statement. The
commissioner
assesses the program's readiness to move toward initial accreditation. The
commissioner
is expected to make a clear recommendation in his/her report on the program's
readiness
for this step, along with other observations on the program's progress and
development.
The program will then respond by submitting a report to the Commission.
Source: CSWE Handbook on Accreditation 1994.