New faculty in focus: Kimberly Compton, Maurice Gattis, Basil Gooden, Carrie Hartwell
The four newest members of the VCU School of Social Work faculty are two instructors for the online M.S.W. Program format and two visiting scholars who are part of the university’s iCubed initiative (Institute for Inclusion, Inquiry and Innovation). We caught up with them and asked about their experiences so far in the 2019-20 academic […]
Federal Policy Fellows meet at intersection of social work, politics
Basil Gooden knows all about sausage-making and pork barrels. If any of the 10 social work students selected for the 2020 Federal Policy Fellows Program are unfamiliar with those political metaphors, they won’t be after participating in five seminars and a two-day visit to Washington, D.C., during the spring semester. Gooden is the perfect teacher, […]
M.S.W. students take a flyer, find reward in human-animal interaction class
It started with a flyer social work students Taylor Wilkerson and Elena Papathanassiou saw for a class they thought would be interesting. It ended with a short feature story about the classmates’ work published in a statewide newsletter on aging. The course was Human-Animal Interaction Across the Lifespan, a master’s level elective developed and taught […]