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Article: Social work education responds to the shortage of persons with both a doctorate and a professional social work degree.(RESEARCH NOTES)
- Article from:
- Journal of Social Work Education
- Article date:
- March 22, 2004
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THERE IS A RECOGNIZED SHORTAGE of persons who have both a doctorate and a professional degree (BSW or MSW) from a program accredited by the Council on Social Work Education (CSWE). One of the sources of evidence for this assertion is the finding that 72% of the respondents in a survey conducted by the authors--deans and directors of CSWE-accredited baccalaureate and master's social work education programs--agreed there is an insufficient number of candidates with both a doctoral degree and a professional degree available for teaching vacancies in social work education programs.
The authors checked with the Group for the Advancement of Doctoral Education, the ...