WEBVTT 1 00:00:08.274 --> 00:00:09.714 - Okay. 2 00:00:09.714 --> 00:00:11.293 As people are settling in, 3 00:00:11.293 --> 00:00:13.465 I'm just going to orient you to the afternoon. 4 00:00:13.465 --> 00:00:17.337 We're going to have Marianne Yoshioka, 5 00:00:17.337 --> 00:00:20.576 our dean share with us her vision. 6 00:00:20.576 --> 00:00:22.319 - (laughs) 7 00:00:22.319 --> 00:00:24.071 - Which she's now smiling about, 8 00:00:24.071 --> 00:00:25.469 so that's all good. 9 00:00:25.469 --> 00:00:26.610 We're excited about that. 10 00:00:26.610 --> 00:00:29.970 A lot of it will interestingly create a 11 00:00:29.970 --> 00:00:31.602 framework for us to think about everything 12 00:00:31.602 --> 00:00:34.151 else we've been hearing about today. 13 00:00:34.151 --> 00:00:39.037 So, after Marianne finishes her presentation, 14 00:00:39.037 --> 00:00:41.321 we're going to then have a half an hour. 15 00:00:41.321 --> 00:00:43.500 We're gonna break out into smaller groups, 16 00:00:43.500 --> 00:00:46.678 and I'll give you some instruction around that. 17 00:00:46.678 --> 00:00:48.865 But at that time, 18 00:00:48.865 --> 00:00:51.503 we're gonna start to really try to weave a lot 19 00:00:51.503 --> 00:00:55.012 of what we've been talking about together today, 20 00:00:55.012 --> 00:00:57.679 to places of real relevancy for 21 00:00:57.679 --> 00:01:00.634 each of us as instructors, and for our school. 22 00:01:00.634 --> 00:01:03.716 So, begin to think about that as you're 23 00:01:03.716 --> 00:01:07.204 listening to Marianne tell us about her 24 00:01:07.204 --> 00:01:08.548 vision for the school which is, 25 00:01:08.548 --> 00:01:10.287 I believe, very much a shared vision, 26 00:01:10.287 --> 00:01:11.983 so I turn it over to Marianne. 27 00:01:11.983 --> 00:01:13.732 - Thank you, thank you. 28 00:01:13.732 --> 00:01:15.535 You know, it's been funny because 29 00:01:15.535 --> 00:01:17.839 over the last few months, everyone has asked, 30 00:01:17.839 --> 00:01:19.640 "What is your vision, share your vision." 31 00:01:19.640 --> 00:01:22.008 And I feel like there's a certain amount of hype 32 00:01:22.008 --> 00:01:25.005 and I feel like cueing the swelling music right now, 33 00:01:25.005 --> 00:01:27.294 and sharing my vision. (laughter) 34 00:01:27.294 --> 00:01:30.260 My vision isn't so complicated, and it's probably, 35 00:01:30.260 --> 00:01:34.302 it is a shared vision, and even whatever vision I have, 36 00:01:34.302 --> 00:01:36.116 you know, it's a collaboration. 37 00:01:36.116 --> 00:01:38.949 A vision is really just a statement of direction 38 00:01:38.949 --> 00:01:42.672 of where you feel you want to go as an institution. 39 00:01:42.672 --> 00:01:45.499 I have a sense of that, but as do the faculty, 40 00:01:45.499 --> 00:01:48.005 as do you, as do our field stakeholders, 41 00:01:48.005 --> 00:01:51.888 and it has to be something where we go together. 42 00:01:51.888 --> 00:01:53.584 And I thought I could talk a little bit about 43 00:01:53.584 --> 00:01:55.461 what I'm thinking about, 44 00:01:55.461 --> 00:01:58.555 and then I am actually eager to have a conversation too. 45 00:01:58.555 --> 00:02:00.667 I'm gonna just move this plant a little bit, 46 00:02:00.667 --> 00:02:03.184 because I feel like I'm, you know, 47 00:02:03.184 --> 00:02:06.384 I don't even know where to put it, actually. 48 00:02:06.384 --> 00:02:07.291 It's so tall. 49 00:02:07.291 --> 00:02:09.403 That actually helps me a lot. 50 00:02:09.403 --> 00:02:10.373 I feel like I was hiding behind the 51 00:02:10.373 --> 00:02:12.560 hedges or something there. 52 00:02:12.560 --> 00:02:15.141 So, my vision is very straightforward. 53 00:02:15.141 --> 00:02:20.059 It is really to be the leading clinical training programs 54 00:02:20.059 --> 00:02:22.587 renowned for our social justice mission. 55 00:02:22.587 --> 00:02:25.125 It's really very clear, and I think that we have 56 00:02:25.125 --> 00:02:27.653 an excellent reputation. 57 00:02:27.653 --> 00:02:31.536 But really to stay there, to get higher, to improve, 58 00:02:31.536 --> 00:02:33.456 to let the world know really the depth of 59 00:02:33.456 --> 00:02:36.635 what we do really does take investment. 60 00:02:36.635 --> 00:02:38.587 Investment in the school, in the programs, 61 00:02:38.587 --> 00:02:42.256 in the faculty, in the curriculum, you know, in the alumni. 62 00:02:42.256 --> 00:02:43.632 It requires investments, 63 00:02:43.632 --> 00:02:46.160 and that's sort of how I'm thinking of it. 64 00:02:46.160 --> 00:02:50.043 My vision of a school is a bustling academic center 65 00:02:50.043 --> 00:02:51.472 where there's lots of options, 66 00:02:51.472 --> 00:02:54.523 lots of good options in courses, 67 00:02:54.523 --> 00:02:59.067 in the extracurricular kinds of programming that's offered. 68 00:02:59.067 --> 00:03:01.968 I personally like it when students have that dilemma of 69 00:03:01.968 --> 00:03:05.261 "Man, there's so many great things to choose from. 70 00:03:05.261 --> 00:03:08.709 "Now I have to make a decision over three great things 71 00:03:08.709 --> 00:03:11.947 "I can choose to do with my afternoon." 72 00:03:11.947 --> 00:03:15.541 I think that is the sign of a great school. 73 00:03:15.541 --> 00:03:17.963 We do have excellence in training, 74 00:03:17.963 --> 00:03:20.917 and I think the number one question that I'm asked, 75 00:03:20.917 --> 00:03:23.340 are things about this school? 76 00:03:23.340 --> 00:03:24.499 What are we going to do? 77 00:03:24.499 --> 00:03:26.696 Are we gonna stay a clinical school, for example. 78 00:03:26.696 --> 00:03:28.766 And my answer to that is yes. 79 00:03:28.766 --> 00:03:32.776 I have no secret desire to add on additional methods. 80 00:03:32.776 --> 00:03:34.568 I think the strength of this school is that 81 00:03:34.568 --> 00:03:37.310 it is a single method school. 82 00:03:37.310 --> 00:03:41.608 It allows for kind of a depth that is harder to achieve 83 00:03:41.608 --> 00:03:44.829 in schools with much more comprehensive curricula. 84 00:03:44.829 --> 00:03:46.429 And I think that is a strength. 85 00:03:46.429 --> 00:03:49.309 My goal is to keep this school about the same size. 86 00:03:49.309 --> 00:03:51.144 If I had my dream come true, 87 00:03:51.144 --> 00:03:52.701 we would bring in so much money, 88 00:03:52.701 --> 00:03:55.005 we could even get a little bit smaller. 89 00:03:55.005 --> 00:03:58.227 It's absolutely not to make it bigger because 90 00:03:58.227 --> 00:04:00.531 I've learned that as you get bigger, 91 00:04:00.531 --> 00:04:03.987 it's harder and harder to maintain quality control. 92 00:04:03.987 --> 00:04:05.843 You need a lot more infrastructure, 93 00:04:05.843 --> 00:04:08.584 a lot more people assisting, 94 00:04:08.584 --> 00:04:10.323 and as that number grows, 95 00:04:10.323 --> 00:04:12.627 it's harder and harder to have things like this; 96 00:04:12.627 --> 00:04:15.251 to come together, have conversations, 97 00:04:15.251 --> 00:04:17.437 and talk together about it. 98 00:04:17.437 --> 00:04:19.805 And then I think the other really big question I'm asked is 99 00:04:19.805 --> 00:04:21.608 "What will happen with the psychodynamic 100 00:04:21.608 --> 00:04:23.699 "focus of our program?" 101 00:04:23.699 --> 00:04:25.512 And some times, that almost feels like the 102 00:04:25.512 --> 00:04:29.466 questions people want to ask, but are afraid to mention. 103 00:04:29.466 --> 00:04:32.658 And we've been having those conversations on the faculty, 104 00:04:32.658 --> 00:04:36.647 as well, because certainly, that is a very powerful 105 00:04:36.647 --> 00:04:40.135 tradition and therapeutic practice, 106 00:04:40.135 --> 00:04:42.407 and the world is changing, and more and more, 107 00:04:42.407 --> 00:04:46.813 it's harder to build, to have that community. 108 00:04:46.813 --> 00:04:49.810 Particularly, once you move out of the Northeast. 109 00:04:49.810 --> 00:04:51.879 It's harder to move into locations, 110 00:04:51.879 --> 00:04:53.895 social service and clinical settings, 111 00:04:53.895 --> 00:04:58.354 where that is the principle method of treatment. 112 00:04:58.354 --> 00:04:59.933 And so, what is going to happen with that? 113 00:04:59.933 --> 00:05:02.984 I think what we've decided as a faculty is 114 00:05:02.984 --> 00:05:07.293 that we are committed to staying theoretically driven, 115 00:05:07.293 --> 00:05:08.530 relationally grounded. 116 00:05:08.530 --> 00:05:09.597 I might have that wrong. 117 00:05:09.597 --> 00:05:11.965 Theoretically grounded, relationally driven? 118 00:05:11.965 --> 00:05:12.967 No, it's the other way around. 119 00:05:12.967 --> 00:05:15.218 Theoretically driven, relationally grounded. 120 00:05:15.218 --> 00:05:16.861 Meaning, that our first, and foremost, 121 00:05:16.861 --> 00:05:19.048 commitment is to teach theory. 122 00:05:19.048 --> 00:05:23.015 Theories that underlie clinical practice that 123 00:05:23.015 --> 00:05:25.757 that allows for kind of a depth and an 124 00:05:25.757 --> 00:05:28.871 expertise that is harder to get when you are only 125 00:05:28.871 --> 00:05:33.871 teaching sort a skills, sort a conceptual models 126 00:05:34.524 --> 00:05:36.572 that not really understanding the 127 00:05:36.572 --> 00:05:39.377 theory upon which it underlies. 128 00:05:39.377 --> 00:05:42.887 And certainly, to date, there actually is a fair 129 00:05:42.887 --> 00:05:47.420 amount of different kinds of clinical 130 00:05:47.420 --> 00:05:49.244 traditions taught in this school. 131 00:05:49.244 --> 00:05:51.388 Some of what we're struggling with is sequencing. 132 00:05:51.388 --> 00:05:52.263 What is taught where? 133 00:05:52.263 --> 00:05:53.756 What is taught when? 134 00:05:53.756 --> 00:05:55.911 But by the time students emerge, 135 00:05:55.911 --> 00:05:58.674 they do have a good strong grounding in 136 00:05:58.674 --> 00:06:00.348 psychodynamic theory, 137 00:06:00.348 --> 00:06:02.791 but they also have a very strong exposure 138 00:06:02.791 --> 00:06:05.201 to cognitive behavioral work. 139 00:06:05.201 --> 00:06:09.191 Increasingly around existential humanistic kinds of models, 140 00:06:09.191 --> 00:06:10.961 and the question for us now is, 141 00:06:10.961 --> 00:06:13.788 how can we make sure that those models 142 00:06:13.788 --> 00:06:17.649 are also really theoretically driven? 143 00:06:17.649 --> 00:06:19.601 So, my long and answer short of it 144 00:06:19.601 --> 00:06:22.364 is that I have no particular... 145 00:06:22.364 --> 00:06:25.660 I don't have an agenda to unilaterally 146 00:06:25.660 --> 00:06:28.465 alter the theoretical positions of the school. 147 00:06:28.465 --> 00:06:31.719 My goal is to work with the faculty and 148 00:06:31.719 --> 00:06:33.948 figure out what makes sense, 149 00:06:33.948 --> 00:06:37.852 to make sure that our students are very well trained, 150 00:06:37.852 --> 00:06:39.708 and get jobs, right? 151 00:06:39.708 --> 00:06:41.777 Because there is a very much a part of a school 152 00:06:41.777 --> 00:06:45.159 of social work that is about labor force development. 153 00:06:45.159 --> 00:06:47.815 We want to do that and make sure that our students 154 00:06:47.815 --> 00:06:50.364 are highly sought after, but that is a part of it, 155 00:06:50.364 --> 00:06:51.985 and that does mean we do have to have 156 00:06:51.985 --> 00:06:54.172 an eye to who's employing, 157 00:06:54.172 --> 00:06:55.399 who are they employing, 158 00:06:55.399 --> 00:06:57.703 what's the field requesting, right? 159 00:06:57.703 --> 00:06:59.911 And while we are responsive to the field, 160 00:06:59.911 --> 00:07:02.759 we also want to exert some leadership as well. 161 00:07:02.759 --> 00:07:06.545 So, that is in essence sort of how I've been approaching it. 162 00:07:06.545 --> 00:07:10.193 And we have been having some wonderful, 163 00:07:10.193 --> 00:07:12.817 wonderful discussions about how do these 164 00:07:12.817 --> 00:07:15.953 things sit amongst us, what's happening in the field, 165 00:07:15.953 --> 00:07:17.927 what's the best training for our students, 166 00:07:17.927 --> 00:07:18.897 how do we bring that about? 167 00:07:18.897 --> 00:07:21.660 These are really hard questions to answer, 168 00:07:21.660 --> 00:07:24.540 and being a head of a school or a curriculum is like 169 00:07:24.540 --> 00:07:28.305 being the head of a really, really big ship. 170 00:07:28.305 --> 00:07:31.345 Sometimes, students or even faculty instructors feel like 171 00:07:31.345 --> 00:07:33.415 why can't we move a little faster? 172 00:07:33.415 --> 00:07:37.009 It's like you can't make quick turns. 173 00:07:37.009 --> 00:07:39.548 All curricula school changes usually happen in one year 174 00:07:39.548 --> 00:07:43.516 increments because that's a cohort of student, 175 00:07:43.516 --> 00:07:47.367 and making a shift is sort of a long, slow process 176 00:07:47.367 --> 00:07:50.759 of turning the big ship over to the right a little bit, 177 00:07:50.759 --> 00:07:52.753 or over to the left a little bit. 178 00:07:52.753 --> 00:07:54.503 And they're not necessarily fast, 179 00:07:54.503 --> 00:07:56.284 but I think the one thing I have appreciated 180 00:07:56.284 --> 00:07:58.929 about our school is that they're thoughtful. 181 00:07:58.929 --> 00:08:01.553 These are very thoughtful decisions, 182 00:08:01.553 --> 00:08:03.857 and we don't always agree. 183 00:08:03.857 --> 00:08:08.380 I would say we often don't always agree, 184 00:08:08.380 --> 00:08:09.873 but that is okay. 185 00:08:09.873 --> 00:08:13.724 I think that intellectual diversity and discourse and debate 186 00:08:13.724 --> 00:08:17.212 are the hallmarks of a healthy academic institution. 187 00:08:17.212 --> 00:08:19.601 We don't want everybody on the same page, 188 00:08:19.601 --> 00:08:20.572 all agreeing yes. 189 00:08:20.572 --> 00:08:23.890 Because that's not really what 190 00:08:23.890 --> 00:08:26.471 is the truth around the table anyway, 191 00:08:26.471 --> 00:08:28.348 and I think that is when you have that 192 00:08:28.348 --> 00:08:30.695 dynamic of diversity is where you can 193 00:08:30.695 --> 00:08:32.945 push each other as well. 194 00:08:32.945 --> 00:08:36.807 And, I hope for, and I long for, and I think we all do, 195 00:08:36.807 --> 00:08:39.058 is chances to have those kind of debates, right? 196 00:08:39.058 --> 00:08:41.916 Have those conversations where we push each other 197 00:08:41.916 --> 00:08:43.697 and we challenge each other a little bit, 198 00:08:43.697 --> 00:08:47.068 holding healthy respect for each other's opinions, 199 00:08:47.068 --> 00:08:50.385 but yet, don't have to agree about everything. 200 00:08:50.385 --> 00:08:52.807 I think that's absolutely fine. 201 00:08:52.807 --> 00:08:55.036 And that is where, in that vision, 202 00:08:55.036 --> 00:08:57.628 of how do we make sure that we are 203 00:08:57.628 --> 00:08:59.399 when anyone in the world says 204 00:08:59.399 --> 00:09:02.204 "Wow, how do you get to be a clinical social worker?" 205 00:09:02.204 --> 00:09:05.159 The answer is the place you need to go is Smith. 206 00:09:05.159 --> 00:09:06.833 That is really what I want, 207 00:09:06.833 --> 00:09:10.407 and did you know that they are powerful in 208 00:09:10.407 --> 00:09:12.561 their anti-racism commitment? 209 00:09:12.561 --> 00:09:14.791 And I think we've made some headway in that. 210 00:09:14.791 --> 00:09:19.409 Already, I think there was a very strong legacy before me, 211 00:09:19.409 --> 00:09:21.991 and I think we've made some changes since I've arrived, 212 00:09:21.991 --> 00:09:24.775 and I think we're plotting a great plan to move forward. 213 00:09:24.775 --> 00:09:28.519 So, let me tell you a little bit about that and where we are, 214 00:09:28.519 --> 00:09:30.972 what we've been doing since July, 215 00:09:30.972 --> 00:09:33.180 and where we are going. 216 00:09:33.180 --> 00:09:36.508 So we've been in a strategic process, more or less. 217 00:09:36.508 --> 00:09:40.455 Having conversations about where does our future lie. 218 00:09:40.455 --> 00:09:43.463 The faculty have been meeting in a group to talk 219 00:09:43.463 --> 00:09:47.345 about how to think about theory and practice 220 00:09:47.345 --> 00:09:48.924 in today's environment and what that 221 00:09:48.924 --> 00:09:50.183 means for our curriculum, 222 00:09:50.183 --> 00:09:54.193 and I think are coming to some resolution in that, 223 00:09:54.193 --> 00:09:55.655 and we'll figure out what that means 224 00:09:55.655 --> 00:10:00.626 for the curriculum moving forward. 225 00:10:00.626 --> 00:10:04.369 We figure out how to broaden, or how to deepen, 226 00:10:04.369 --> 00:10:08.251 or bring our clinical expertise into the next decade. 227 00:10:08.251 --> 00:10:09.905 What that looks like in the training. 228 00:10:09.905 --> 00:10:11.323 We've been working a lot, as well, 229 00:10:11.323 --> 00:10:13.947 on anti-racism initiatives. 230 00:10:13.947 --> 00:10:18.075 So, we have been able to, I don't know, 231 00:10:18.075 --> 00:10:20.497 hopefully many of you saw our statement 232 00:10:20.497 --> 00:10:22.417 that we wrote after, sort of, 233 00:10:22.417 --> 00:10:25.489 the non-indictment of the Ferguson case. 234 00:10:25.489 --> 00:10:28.198 This was a statement that was written, we actually, 235 00:10:28.198 --> 00:10:32.433 our anti-racism task force that is made up of 236 00:10:32.433 --> 00:10:36.027 Professor Hye-Kyung Kang, and Peggy O'Neill, 237 00:10:36.027 --> 00:10:38.417 and Fred Newdom and Yoosun Park, 238 00:10:38.417 --> 00:10:40.230 and there are others who contributed, 239 00:10:40.230 --> 00:10:43.355 but they were very focal in writing this statement. 240 00:10:43.355 --> 00:10:47.486 And we wrote it initially right after 241 00:10:47.486 --> 00:10:50.460 everything happened in Ferguson. 242 00:10:50.460 --> 00:10:53.687 I was thinking of it as a bit of a test balloon. 243 00:10:53.687 --> 00:10:55.757 I wanted to see what the college would do, 244 00:10:55.757 --> 00:10:57.698 because most universities and colleges 245 00:10:57.698 --> 00:11:00.909 are fairly fear driven, worried about losing donors, 246 00:11:00.909 --> 00:11:04.269 worry about litigation. 247 00:11:04.269 --> 00:11:07.341 And the typical path is to either stall something 248 00:11:07.341 --> 00:11:10.359 for a very long time through wordsmithing. 249 00:11:10.359 --> 00:11:12.450 Put it into committee decision 250 00:11:12.450 --> 00:11:15.095 which equals stall indefinitely. 251 00:11:15.095 --> 00:11:16.888 Or just kill it out right, right? 252 00:11:16.888 --> 00:11:19.906 Or water it down until something says nothing. 253 00:11:19.906 --> 00:11:21.826 And I wanted to see what would happen, 254 00:11:21.826 --> 00:11:23.543 I was fearful that that would be 255 00:11:23.543 --> 00:11:25.357 what would happen here. 256 00:11:25.357 --> 00:11:28.119 And we sent off a statement that was powerful. 257 00:11:28.119 --> 00:11:32.045 It was much more declarative in its postion 258 00:11:32.045 --> 00:11:34.690 about what structural racism looks like, 259 00:11:34.690 --> 00:11:36.322 and how it injures and it's a act 260 00:11:36.322 --> 00:11:38.359 of violence in communities. 261 00:11:38.359 --> 00:11:40.290 And we sent it off and within in half an hour 262 00:11:40.290 --> 00:11:42.893 the provost and the head of college relations 263 00:11:42.893 --> 00:11:45.869 came back and said, "Go for it, we love it." 264 00:11:45.869 --> 00:11:48.951 And this to me signaled a whole new day. 265 00:11:48.951 --> 00:11:51.778 This means we're in an environment that allows things, 266 00:11:51.778 --> 00:11:54.039 where new things are possible. 267 00:11:54.039 --> 00:11:58.498 I am eager, I would love to really take then 268 00:11:58.498 --> 00:12:01.144 our commitment and find ways to live it. 269 00:12:01.144 --> 00:12:03.597 Live it so much more boldly and fiercely, 270 00:12:03.597 --> 00:12:06.274 and unapologetically, and push and lead 271 00:12:06.274 --> 00:12:09.495 the social work education community, 272 00:12:09.495 --> 00:12:13.773 and social work community, to push them as well. 273 00:12:13.773 --> 00:12:17.858 To move it ahead, to not be so afraid 274 00:12:17.858 --> 00:12:21.527 of really taking a position, a much stronger position. 275 00:12:21.527 --> 00:12:23.778 So we had this statement ready to go then, 276 00:12:23.778 --> 00:12:27.938 when the grand jury decision came back to not indict, 277 00:12:27.938 --> 00:12:30.093 and we were able to release that statement, 278 00:12:30.093 --> 00:12:34.488 and we had huge, a huge outpouring of support. 279 00:12:34.488 --> 00:12:36.482 Not only did other schools model their statement 280 00:12:36.482 --> 00:12:39.671 after ours, giving us full acknowledgement. 281 00:12:39.671 --> 00:12:43.031 We were mentioned in the Chronicle of Higher Education. 282 00:12:43.031 --> 00:12:45.378 We just really asserted ourselves, 283 00:12:45.378 --> 00:12:46.701 our leadership in that area, 284 00:12:46.701 --> 00:12:49.122 and that is only ours to take and run with, 285 00:12:49.122 --> 00:12:53.218 and that is all our full intention to do that. 286 00:12:53.218 --> 00:12:54.658 Along with commitment though 287 00:12:54.658 --> 00:12:56.557 comes commitments to diversify. 288 00:12:56.557 --> 00:12:59.277 So we know we want as a faculty 289 00:12:59.277 --> 00:13:01.879 we've talked, we were reading as a faculty 290 00:13:01.879 --> 00:13:04.984 in our monthly faculty anti-racism meeting, 291 00:13:04.984 --> 00:13:08.589 which how cool is it to have that every month. 292 00:13:08.589 --> 00:13:12.023 We, as a group read a chapter of Whistling Vivaldi. 293 00:13:12.023 --> 00:13:14.337 It's a book written by Claude Steele, 294 00:13:14.337 --> 00:13:18.188 a social psychologist who has looked at stereotype threat. 295 00:13:18.188 --> 00:13:21.580 And Peggy had chosen a specific chapter 296 00:13:21.580 --> 00:13:24.758 for us to focus on, which we did, 297 00:13:24.758 --> 00:13:28.172 and led to a really wonderful, complicated conversation 298 00:13:28.172 --> 00:13:31.500 about what it means to build critical mass of diversity 299 00:13:31.500 --> 00:13:33.793 within a school, and how would that look, 300 00:13:33.793 --> 00:13:35.745 and how hard would that be. 301 00:13:35.745 --> 00:13:37.185 You know we don't have a number, 302 00:13:37.185 --> 00:13:38.646 I'd say we're shooting for, 303 00:13:38.646 --> 00:13:41.089 but we have an agreement that we need to 304 00:13:41.089 --> 00:13:45.238 put serious resources behind diversifing. 305 00:13:45.238 --> 00:13:47.127 We need to figure out what that looks like, 306 00:13:47.127 --> 00:13:49.398 on the student and on the faculty side. 307 00:13:49.398 --> 00:13:51.329 And so we were able to this year 308 00:13:51.329 --> 00:13:53.559 increase, since July, increase financial aid 309 00:13:53.559 --> 00:13:56.300 by about 23 percent. 310 00:13:56.300 --> 00:13:57.846 We have a wonderful fiscal coordinator 311 00:13:57.846 --> 00:13:59.660 at this school, and with her help 312 00:13:59.660 --> 00:14:01.889 and thinking creatively we're able to 313 00:14:01.889 --> 00:14:06.028 free up 23 percent more of our funds 314 00:14:06.028 --> 00:14:09.622 for financial aid, which goes a long way 315 00:14:09.622 --> 00:14:13.388 into bringing in a kind of very competitive class 316 00:14:13.388 --> 00:14:15.617 coming into this school. 317 00:14:15.617 --> 00:14:18.263 And that also includes around diversifying. 318 00:14:18.263 --> 00:14:20.908 It's hard, and it's a goal 319 00:14:20.908 --> 00:14:22.422 that's going to take us many years. 320 00:14:22.422 --> 00:14:24.001 But that's also part of our vision, 321 00:14:24.001 --> 00:14:27.201 about what it means to be an anti-racism institution, 322 00:14:27.201 --> 00:14:30.870 and that's something I deeply, deeply support. 323 00:14:30.870 --> 00:14:34.167 And we will just continue in that effort. 324 00:14:34.167 --> 00:14:36.972 Along the same lines we brought back 325 00:14:36.972 --> 00:14:39.830 the Bertha Capen Reynolds predoc fellowship. 326 00:14:39.830 --> 00:14:42.236 This was a fellowship that was started in the late 80s 327 00:14:42.236 --> 00:14:45.137 by now Dean emeritus Ann Hartman. 328 00:14:45.137 --> 00:14:48.711 And it's a fellowship for a scholar 329 00:14:48.711 --> 00:14:52.241 who is from any PhD program in the country, 330 00:14:52.241 --> 00:14:54.310 who is all but dissertation. 331 00:14:54.310 --> 00:14:56.444 A person who can bring diversity 332 00:14:56.444 --> 00:14:59.249 to our institution and diversity can be defined 333 00:14:59.249 --> 00:15:01.873 across many dimensions. 334 00:15:01.873 --> 00:15:04.572 Someone who, of course, holds our commitment... 335 00:15:04.572 --> 00:15:07.590 Who's work will support and advance 336 00:15:07.590 --> 00:15:10.652 clinical social work and anti-racism work. 337 00:15:10.652 --> 00:15:14.247 We can bring them in and give them a 338 00:15:14.247 --> 00:15:19.247 fairly decent living stipend, full housing support, 339 00:15:19.478 --> 00:15:23.009 kind of a faculty appointment. 340 00:15:23.009 --> 00:15:26.145 They get benefits and an office, 341 00:15:26.145 --> 00:15:28.491 and they also get to be part of the 342 00:15:28.491 --> 00:15:32.320 five colleges mentoring fellowship program, 343 00:15:32.320 --> 00:15:34.390 which means they will be in a cohort 344 00:15:34.390 --> 00:15:36.662 of pre-doctoral fellows. 345 00:15:36.662 --> 00:15:39.009 Smith also has another one called the Mendenhall Fellow 346 00:15:39.009 --> 00:15:41.984 and the other college's have one as well. 347 00:15:41.984 --> 00:15:44.694 But they'll be part of a program of mentorship 348 00:15:44.694 --> 00:15:48.715 and dissertation support, and conference travel. 349 00:15:48.715 --> 00:15:50.763 And it's also part of our commitment 350 00:15:50.763 --> 00:15:55.763 to working on diversifying that pipeline of faculty. 351 00:15:55.819 --> 00:15:59.115 A faculty who will be better socialized and equipped, 352 00:15:59.115 --> 00:16:01.185 I should say doctoral student, 353 00:16:01.185 --> 00:16:04.384 better equipped to move into academic life, 354 00:16:04.384 --> 00:16:06.315 has a year carved out with support 355 00:16:06.315 --> 00:16:09.291 to finish the dissertation, maybe write in addition, 356 00:16:09.291 --> 00:16:11.712 get teaching experience, get mentorship 357 00:16:11.712 --> 00:16:14.645 and hopefully those mentorship relationships 358 00:16:14.645 --> 00:16:17.450 they'll take them with them wherever they go. 359 00:16:17.450 --> 00:16:20.821 And that feels like a really great success as well. 360 00:16:20.821 --> 00:16:21.952 I'm just going to peek at my notes 361 00:16:21.952 --> 00:16:25.909 to remember what else I was suppose to tell you. 362 00:16:25.909 --> 00:16:29.034 We are also working hard to integrate 363 00:16:29.034 --> 00:16:31.754 as much as we can into the college. 364 00:16:31.754 --> 00:16:33.749 The school has... 365 00:16:33.749 --> 00:16:36.117 Because of our different schedules, 366 00:16:36.117 --> 00:16:38.180 you know where we are meeting intensely 367 00:16:38.180 --> 00:16:39.113 through the summer and the college 368 00:16:39.113 --> 00:16:40.990 is meeting intensely now. 369 00:16:40.990 --> 00:16:43.401 There's ways in which we can miss each other, 370 00:16:43.401 --> 00:16:45.631 through meetings, you know, we haven't 371 00:16:45.631 --> 00:16:48.250 really collaborated a lot. 372 00:16:48.250 --> 00:16:52.190 I've made a purposeful effort to get us better integrated 373 00:16:52.190 --> 00:16:54.355 in ways, I think it can only help us. 374 00:16:54.355 --> 00:16:58.025 I think we have established, definitely established 375 00:16:58.025 --> 00:17:01.203 ourself on the campus as being 376 00:17:01.203 --> 00:17:05.897 important, unique resources around anti-racism work. 377 00:17:05.897 --> 00:17:08.403 And there are ways in which the president and provost office 378 00:17:08.403 --> 00:17:10.184 has already turned to us, 379 00:17:10.184 --> 00:17:12.487 and asked faculty to sit on very important 380 00:17:12.487 --> 00:17:14.973 kind of stuff committees that they're running 381 00:17:14.973 --> 00:17:18.109 to provide important advice and consultation. 382 00:17:18.109 --> 00:17:21.799 And that's a wonderful role for us to have. 383 00:17:21.799 --> 00:17:24.487 We have a partnership, a new collaboration 384 00:17:24.487 --> 00:17:28.530 with the psychology undergraduate program. 385 00:17:28.530 --> 00:17:31.591 They have a community engagement specialization, 386 00:17:31.591 --> 00:17:34.013 where those students do kind of an internship, 387 00:17:34.013 --> 00:17:36.050 sort of a very abbreviated internship 388 00:17:36.050 --> 00:17:39.559 at a social service organization in the area. 389 00:17:39.559 --> 00:17:42.952 It was great and it had some problems 390 00:17:42.952 --> 00:17:44.914 about giving a quality experience 391 00:17:44.914 --> 00:17:46.557 to those undergraduates. 392 00:17:46.557 --> 00:17:48.296 So now we will place those students 393 00:17:48.296 --> 00:17:50.898 at places where we have an MSW interned, 394 00:17:50.898 --> 00:17:54.333 and our MSW student will be a supervisor of sorts 395 00:17:54.333 --> 00:17:55.943 for that undergraduate. 396 00:17:55.943 --> 00:17:57.864 And that's a great experience for our student, 397 00:17:57.864 --> 00:18:01.117 it ensures a better experience for that undergraduate. 398 00:18:01.117 --> 00:18:04.413 We've been able to place some of our master students as TAs 399 00:18:04.413 --> 00:18:07.089 in clinical psych undergrad courses, 400 00:18:07.089 --> 00:18:09.745 if they're in the evening and don't conflict with field. 401 00:18:09.745 --> 00:18:13.030 And looking at Caroline (laughter), 402 00:18:13.030 --> 00:18:16.145 she's like, "Yeah, they won't conflict with field." 403 00:18:16.145 --> 00:18:18.044 And that feels like a great opportunity 404 00:18:18.044 --> 00:18:19.697 for our students. 405 00:18:19.697 --> 00:18:22.299 We've now got, actually thanks to the Field Department, 406 00:18:22.299 --> 00:18:27.184 new kinds of placements through the 407 00:18:27.184 --> 00:18:29.296 Department of Education on campus, 408 00:18:29.296 --> 00:18:31.430 in their campus school that they run 409 00:18:31.430 --> 00:18:32.656 and also Project Coach, 410 00:18:32.656 --> 00:18:35.302 which is a very, very special mentorship program 411 00:18:35.302 --> 00:18:39.323 they're running for students who need more support. 412 00:18:39.323 --> 00:18:42.438 And that's a really collaboration to have. 413 00:18:42.438 --> 00:18:44.059 We are approaching them with other, 414 00:18:44.059 --> 00:18:46.587 we have a couple of other plans to move with them, 415 00:18:46.587 --> 00:18:49.862 and I'm very happy to say that 416 00:18:49.862 --> 00:18:52.582 as of two days ago, or maybe it was yesterday, 417 00:18:52.582 --> 00:18:55.387 so much happens in a day I'm not even sure. 418 00:18:55.387 --> 00:18:56.902 It might of happened this morning. 419 00:18:56.902 --> 00:18:58.129 (laughter) 420 00:18:58.129 --> 00:18:59.803 No it didn't happen this morning. 421 00:18:59.803 --> 00:19:01.509 The president, as a really, 422 00:19:01.509 --> 00:19:04.571 I think a really significant sign of support 423 00:19:04.571 --> 00:19:06.267 and investment in the school 424 00:19:06.267 --> 00:19:10.704 has just offered us $70,000 to engage 425 00:19:10.704 --> 00:19:13.370 in some market research as we launch now 426 00:19:13.370 --> 00:19:17.573 the process to overhaul our website. 427 00:19:17.573 --> 00:19:20.176 And that begins with some really great research 428 00:19:20.176 --> 00:19:22.896 around different aspects of sort of packaging 429 00:19:22.896 --> 00:19:25.189 of the branding of this school, 430 00:19:25.189 --> 00:19:26.981 and it's expensive branding. 431 00:19:26.981 --> 00:19:28.912 And I was getting seriously cold feet 432 00:19:28.912 --> 00:19:30.491 about spending that amount of money 433 00:19:30.491 --> 00:19:32.346 and the president got wind of that 434 00:19:32.346 --> 00:19:35.845 and of her own volition came forward, volunteered 435 00:19:35.845 --> 00:19:37.936 and said, "Why don't I pay for that, 436 00:19:37.936 --> 00:19:39.898 "I would love to pay for that and make that big investment 437 00:19:39.898 --> 00:19:40.709 "in the school." 438 00:19:40.709 --> 00:19:45.659 And that feels like a terrific investment as well. 439 00:19:45.659 --> 00:19:48.485 We've got (applause), I know isn't that terrific. 440 00:19:48.485 --> 00:19:50.554 It feels great. 441 00:19:50.554 --> 00:19:53.712 I feel like we have been so welcome at the table. 442 00:19:53.712 --> 00:19:58.170 We've got a lot of other kinds of collaborations 443 00:19:58.170 --> 00:20:00.101 in the mix. 444 00:20:00.101 --> 00:20:03.066 We're negotiating and looking at ways, 445 00:20:03.066 --> 00:20:05.797 we have an invitation in a way 446 00:20:05.797 --> 00:20:08.538 that we're trying to find out if it can fit for us 447 00:20:08.538 --> 00:20:10.992 of helping to build capacity 448 00:20:10.992 --> 00:20:13.850 to teach clinical social work practice 449 00:20:13.850 --> 00:20:15.845 at Beijing Normal University. 450 00:20:15.845 --> 00:20:17.264 And we're trying to examine ways 451 00:20:17.264 --> 00:20:18.885 in which that might look at. 452 00:20:18.885 --> 00:20:21.306 And that feels like a wonderful opportunity 453 00:20:21.306 --> 00:20:23.280 for us, not only to take leadership 454 00:20:23.280 --> 00:20:26.106 in the way that clinical practice is taught 455 00:20:26.106 --> 00:20:28.376 and thought of, but you know, 456 00:20:28.376 --> 00:20:30.233 it's also a sign of recognition. 457 00:20:30.233 --> 00:20:32.601 And Josh Miller has been already collaborating 458 00:20:32.601 --> 00:20:35.854 with them, and it was actually because of their deep 459 00:20:35.854 --> 00:20:38.809 admiration of Josh, I think that they became 460 00:20:38.809 --> 00:20:40.686 very, very interested in the school. 461 00:20:40.686 --> 00:20:41.892 And that feels like a great thing. 462 00:20:41.892 --> 00:20:43.961 But it also opens the door to say, 463 00:20:43.961 --> 00:20:46.094 you know there are ways that... 464 00:20:46.094 --> 00:20:48.345 The uniqueness of our program 465 00:20:48.345 --> 00:20:50.574 is desirable and sought after, 466 00:20:50.574 --> 00:20:52.782 and there are ways that we can assert 467 00:20:52.782 --> 00:20:55.246 that leadership in other kinds of organizations 468 00:20:55.246 --> 00:20:57.934 in the way that it works. 469 00:20:57.934 --> 00:20:59.844 On a very smaller note, 470 00:20:59.844 --> 00:21:03.235 I literally feel like almost every day 471 00:21:03.235 --> 00:21:05.902 something new is emerging. 472 00:21:05.902 --> 00:21:07.993 So yesterday I had a great conversation 473 00:21:07.993 --> 00:21:11.726 with the director of IT on campus, 474 00:21:11.726 --> 00:21:14.052 because I've been sort of wanting 475 00:21:14.052 --> 00:21:18.020 an early conversation about data in the school. 476 00:21:18.020 --> 00:21:19.833 How can we manage our databases better, 477 00:21:19.833 --> 00:21:21.529 how can build them better? 478 00:21:21.529 --> 00:21:23.161 How can we get out the reports 479 00:21:23.161 --> 00:21:25.774 we want from our databases better? 480 00:21:25.774 --> 00:21:28.846 And very quickly, with Idene's help, 481 00:21:28.846 --> 00:21:32.067 did you all meet Idene Rodriguez Martin? 482 00:21:32.067 --> 00:21:35.257 Who is associate dean of graduate enrollment 483 00:21:35.257 --> 00:21:37.273 and administration. 484 00:21:37.273 --> 00:21:40.526 We cobbled together a wonderful agreement. 485 00:21:40.526 --> 00:21:44.238 Basically she has a bevy of incredibly talented 486 00:21:44.238 --> 00:21:47.353 student programmer types in her office 487 00:21:47.353 --> 00:21:49.817 that do nothing but this database work. 488 00:21:49.817 --> 00:21:53.177 We will provide the funds to hire one student, 489 00:21:53.177 --> 00:21:54.595 she will hire that student 490 00:21:54.595 --> 00:21:57.454 and provide the supervision but seat that student with us. 491 00:21:57.454 --> 00:22:01.102 I feel like everyday a new solution comes about 492 00:22:01.102 --> 00:22:03.769 with the college that feels great. 493 00:22:03.769 --> 00:22:06.627 It feels like there is a big investment in the school 494 00:22:06.627 --> 00:22:09.177 that will only be better for this school. 495 00:22:09.177 --> 00:22:11.897 There are new ways that we're our asserting our vision 496 00:22:11.897 --> 00:22:14.564 of leadership in clinical practice 497 00:22:14.564 --> 00:22:16.494 across other institutions. 498 00:22:16.494 --> 00:22:17.817 We have some other really great ideas 499 00:22:17.817 --> 00:22:19.534 that I'm just trying not to tell you about 500 00:22:19.534 --> 00:22:20.953 because I don't know if they'll come. 501 00:22:20.953 --> 00:22:24.270 But we have these wonderful brainstorming sessions 502 00:22:24.270 --> 00:22:27.428 about a real, like a signature project 503 00:22:27.428 --> 00:22:29.358 that we can bring that brings leadership 504 00:22:29.358 --> 00:22:32.580 in this area nationally. 505 00:22:32.580 --> 00:22:35.022 And we have a whole bunch of ideas 506 00:22:35.022 --> 00:22:37.209 and I think some of them are extremely, 507 00:22:37.209 --> 00:22:40.323 extremely possible, but I'll try not to give it all away. 508 00:22:40.323 --> 00:22:43.332 We are looking for those signature projects. 509 00:22:43.332 --> 00:22:45.774 The one's that make the world say, 510 00:22:45.774 --> 00:22:47.790 well what is Smith doing? 511 00:22:47.790 --> 00:22:49.763 Like what is the leadership that Smith is, 512 00:22:49.763 --> 00:22:51.673 let's find out what Smith is doing first, 513 00:22:51.673 --> 00:22:54.222 as we sort of assess what we're doing. 514 00:22:54.222 --> 00:22:56.174 It is ours to take, 515 00:22:56.174 --> 00:23:00.217 and I think that we are focusing on communications. 516 00:23:00.217 --> 00:23:02.649 I think you will find a whole range 517 00:23:02.649 --> 00:23:04.995 of new kinds of communications coming forward 518 00:23:04.995 --> 00:23:07.577 from the school to help give you more information 519 00:23:07.577 --> 00:23:09.508 about what we're doing. 520 00:23:09.508 --> 00:23:11.406 And it's exciting, it's fun. 521 00:23:11.406 --> 00:23:14.467 I've been on this big alumni tour, 522 00:23:14.467 --> 00:23:16.633 12 cities, I've done six that means 523 00:23:16.633 --> 00:23:18.979 I have six to go. (laughter) 524 00:23:18.979 --> 00:23:21.188 They're fabulous. 525 00:23:21.188 --> 00:23:24.505 You go off, you have these wonderful receptions 526 00:23:24.505 --> 00:23:25.966 with alumni, you find out what people 527 00:23:25.966 --> 00:23:28.590 do with their careers, and it's amazing. 528 00:23:28.590 --> 00:23:31.353 It's a testimony to the power of our training, 529 00:23:31.353 --> 00:23:33.486 what they do with their careers. 530 00:23:33.486 --> 00:23:35.651 And we met with different specific alumni 531 00:23:35.651 --> 00:23:39.641 who have particular ideas or interest in the school. 532 00:23:39.641 --> 00:23:41.156 And then we go off to the next city, 533 00:23:41.156 --> 00:23:42.457 and we do it again, 534 00:23:42.457 --> 00:23:44.292 and it's just amazing the bridges 535 00:23:44.292 --> 00:23:46.563 that we've built, the kind of information we've 536 00:23:46.563 --> 00:23:48.931 been able to get. 537 00:23:48.931 --> 00:23:51.833 We have agreed as a faculty 538 00:23:51.833 --> 00:23:53.742 that we're going to be creating 539 00:23:53.742 --> 00:23:57.454 an endowed chair for Dean Emeritus Ann Hartman. 540 00:23:57.454 --> 00:24:01.358 And Ann Hartman is in the area, 541 00:24:01.358 --> 00:24:04.164 she's been a leader in social work practice 542 00:24:04.164 --> 00:24:08.215 for many, many decades. 543 00:24:08.215 --> 00:24:10.488 We are coming up to our centennial 544 00:24:10.488 --> 00:24:12.771 in about three and a half years, 545 00:24:12.771 --> 00:24:14.807 and I didn't want that long 546 00:24:14.807 --> 00:24:16.428 to launch the endowed chair. 547 00:24:16.428 --> 00:24:18.380 I wanted to get it going now. 548 00:24:18.380 --> 00:24:20.237 And so, we are working hard on that, 549 00:24:20.237 --> 00:24:22.679 and some of the work that we've doing on the road 550 00:24:22.679 --> 00:24:25.837 is working with people on development ideas 551 00:24:25.837 --> 00:24:28.919 to get that chair endowed. 552 00:24:28.919 --> 00:24:31.287 And that feels like a wonderful acknowledgement 553 00:24:31.287 --> 00:24:33.452 to someone who's been very, very important 554 00:24:33.452 --> 00:24:36.375 to this school and to the profession. 555 00:24:36.375 --> 00:24:39.020 And pretty well uniformly where ever we go, 556 00:24:39.020 --> 00:24:43.159 people are excited about doing that for Ann Hartman. 557 00:24:43.159 --> 00:24:45.058 I may have left out a detail or two 558 00:24:45.058 --> 00:24:46.946 that later I'll be like, oh I should have told them. 559 00:24:46.946 --> 00:24:49.356 But I wanted to leave time as well for questions 560 00:24:49.356 --> 00:24:50.914 and sort of hear from you about 561 00:24:50.914 --> 00:24:53.581 what your questions are about this school, 562 00:24:53.581 --> 00:24:56.738 or concerns or excitement, new ideas. 563 00:24:56.738 --> 00:25:01.377 We're always looking for new great ideas as well. 564 00:25:01.377 --> 00:25:05.047 But we are moving full steam ahead 565 00:25:05.047 --> 00:25:08.268 really to make this the program of the country. 566 00:25:08.268 --> 00:25:10.402 I have a goal of really getting us into 567 00:25:10.402 --> 00:25:12.151 the top ten schools. 568 00:25:12.151 --> 00:25:15.724 I feel like it's very, very doable. 569 00:25:15.724 --> 00:25:17.442 I think it should happen next year, 570 00:25:17.442 --> 00:25:20.780 but it may take a few years. 571 00:25:20.780 --> 00:25:22.615 But we will absolutely get there. 572 00:25:22.615 --> 00:25:25.015 We're currently ranked about 17th, 573 00:25:25.015 --> 00:25:26.060 and there's to my mind 574 00:25:26.060 --> 00:25:27.170 there's absolutely no reason 575 00:25:27.170 --> 00:25:29.815 why we can't get in the top ten. 576 00:25:29.815 --> 00:25:31.628 Is there any questions or thoughts, 577 00:25:31.628 --> 00:25:33.676 or ideas that burning questions 578 00:25:33.676 --> 00:25:35.991 you wanted to ask me? 579 00:25:35.991 --> 00:25:37.505 Ask any of the faculty member 580 00:25:37.505 --> 00:25:40.977 about what the school's up to. 581 00:25:43.937 --> 00:25:45.143 You know we have a lot of other 582 00:25:45.143 --> 00:25:46.252 sub kind of goals. 583 00:25:46.252 --> 00:25:48.833 Like so drawing off of the presentations today, 584 00:25:48.833 --> 00:25:51.948 like can we achieve universal design 585 00:25:51.948 --> 00:25:54.892 in our curriculum within three years? 586 00:25:54.892 --> 00:25:56.290 Right, and of course it's possible 587 00:25:56.290 --> 00:25:59.212 if you put dedicated effort to it. 588 00:25:59.212 --> 00:26:00.556 You know, can we build a critical mass 589 00:26:00.556 --> 00:26:02.188 of students within three years. 590 00:26:02.188 --> 00:26:04.418 I mean these are very doable tasks 591 00:26:04.418 --> 00:26:07.298 that we have for ourselves. 592 00:26:07.298 --> 00:26:10.060 Oh, one other thing I wanted to say is 593 00:26:10.060 --> 00:26:11.713 I'm asked often a lot about 594 00:26:11.713 --> 00:26:13.943 what about online education? 595 00:26:13.943 --> 00:26:16.492 Is Smith going to move in that direction? 596 00:26:16.492 --> 00:26:19.393 So I have a complicated answer, 597 00:26:19.393 --> 00:26:21.548 because I spent several years 598 00:26:21.548 --> 00:26:24.194 really working very hard and developing 599 00:26:24.194 --> 00:26:26.007 an online MSW program, 600 00:26:26.007 --> 00:26:28.044 and through it I learned a lot. 601 00:26:28.044 --> 00:26:29.953 I learned a lot about what online does, 602 00:26:29.953 --> 00:26:31.393 and what it can't do. 603 00:26:31.393 --> 00:26:32.620 And what I generally tell people 604 00:26:32.620 --> 00:26:35.105 is it does way more than you think it does. 605 00:26:35.105 --> 00:26:36.311 It can be really good, 606 00:26:36.311 --> 00:26:38.892 and it's probably far more expensive 607 00:26:38.892 --> 00:26:42.562 than you ever imagined to do it well. 608 00:26:42.562 --> 00:26:44.023 I came away not convinced 609 00:26:44.023 --> 00:26:47.756 that not everything can be taught well online. 610 00:26:47.756 --> 00:26:50.754 I came away convinced that not every student 611 00:26:50.754 --> 00:26:54.444 is really meant to learn online. 612 00:26:54.444 --> 00:26:59.196 And not every instructor is meant to teach online. 613 00:27:00.416 --> 00:27:05.228 When you have the student who learns in that way, 614 00:27:05.228 --> 00:27:07.159 where it isn't someone talking with them 615 00:27:07.159 --> 00:27:09.548 or sort of immediate visual discussion, 616 00:27:09.548 --> 00:27:13.570 but it's a lot of different kinds of structured activities, 617 00:27:13.570 --> 00:27:16.375 and you have an instructor who loves to teach that way, 618 00:27:16.375 --> 00:27:17.730 the course comes alive. 619 00:27:17.730 --> 00:27:21.143 And the course is much more technologically 620 00:27:21.143 --> 00:27:23.532 driven then you might think. 621 00:27:23.532 --> 00:27:27.735 But it really is about that fit, 622 00:27:27.735 --> 00:27:28.940 and there are lots of people 623 00:27:28.940 --> 00:27:30.817 who that isn't the way for them, 624 00:27:30.817 --> 00:27:33.143 that isn't the way they can envision teaching, 625 00:27:33.143 --> 00:27:35.585 that isn't the way they can envision learning. 626 00:27:35.585 --> 00:27:39.319 And so, my long answer to this is 627 00:27:39.319 --> 00:27:41.484 I think there are things that can go online. 628 00:27:41.484 --> 00:27:44.610 I think there are ways that we could use that technology. 629 00:27:44.610 --> 00:27:46.386 I personally am not interested in developing 630 00:27:46.386 --> 00:27:49.543 an online MSW program. 631 00:27:49.543 --> 00:27:51.794 Online MSW programs are expensive 632 00:27:51.794 --> 00:27:54.045 and the only way (applause) okay (laughs). 633 00:27:54.045 --> 00:27:55.420 The only way to make them work 634 00:27:55.420 --> 00:27:57.991 is you gotta put a lot of people through it. 635 00:27:57.991 --> 00:28:01.276 That is the only way to really recoup the cost, 636 00:28:01.276 --> 00:28:03.228 the enormous cost it will take 637 00:28:03.228 --> 00:28:05.595 to build that program, build it well. 638 00:28:05.595 --> 00:28:07.686 And I've already said I'm not interested 639 00:28:07.686 --> 00:28:09.872 in getting a far bigger school. 640 00:28:09.872 --> 00:28:11.174 I would be interested in keeping 641 00:28:11.174 --> 00:28:14.374 it the same size or even making it a little smaller. 642 00:28:14.374 --> 00:28:17.413 But I think that something's can be done, 643 00:28:17.413 --> 00:28:18.874 we shouldn't be afraid of it, 644 00:28:18.874 --> 00:28:19.920 but we should use it, 645 00:28:19.920 --> 00:28:21.307 you know we should think very carefully 646 00:28:21.307 --> 00:28:24.144 about where and how it is placed. 647 00:28:24.144 --> 00:28:25.211 I told Peggy, I'm not going to talk 648 00:28:25.211 --> 00:28:26.437 for half an hour. 649 00:28:26.437 --> 00:28:27.515 Of course, you give me an amount of time 650 00:28:27.515 --> 00:28:29.349 I could just keep talking. 651 00:28:29.349 --> 00:28:31.578 But I know we have other things to do, 652 00:28:31.578 --> 00:28:32.827 and I'll be around if anyone 653 00:28:32.827 --> 00:28:35.173 has other kinds of conversation or discussion. 654 00:28:35.173 --> 00:28:36.336 Thanks everyone. 655 00:28:36.336 --> 00:28:39.366 (applause) 656 00:28:39.366 --> 00:28:43.140 - Thank you, thanks Marianne. 657 00:28:43.140 --> 00:28:45.817 It didn't feel like a half an hour, did it? 658 00:28:45.817 --> 00:28:47.118 No, it didn't to me anyway. 659 00:28:47.118 --> 00:28:48.527 I love hearing all of that, 660 00:28:48.527 --> 00:28:51.897 and it's a great sort of template 661 00:28:51.897 --> 00:28:52.985 for us to be thinking about 662 00:28:52.985 --> 00:28:54.222 what we're going to be talking about. 663 00:28:54.222 --> 00:28:55.247 Because this was a lot of information 664 00:28:55.247 --> 00:28:57.167 that came this morning. 665 00:28:57.167 --> 00:28:59.375 There are a lot of new things coming our way, 666 00:28:59.375 --> 00:29:01.209 and how are we going to make it all happen. 667 00:29:01.209 --> 00:29:02.927 And I think that with the energy 668 00:29:02.927 --> 00:29:05.273 and the commitment that's just been expressed, 669 00:29:05.273 --> 00:29:08.249 that we can move ahead with some confidence 670 00:29:08.249 --> 00:29:10.478 that in fact we are going to figure this out. 671 00:29:10.478 --> 00:29:12.036 We're going to find a way to keep improving 672 00:29:12.036 --> 00:29:14.703 our ability to teach, and to keep it current, 673 00:29:14.703 --> 00:29:17.092 and to keep it honorable of our traditions 674 00:29:17.092 --> 00:29:17.977 and so on. 675 00:29:17.977 --> 00:29:20.505 So here we are now with an opportunity 676 00:29:20.505 --> 00:29:22.159 to talk with each other. 677 00:29:22.159 --> 00:29:24.462 And I appreciate the patience 678 00:29:24.462 --> 00:29:26.478 and the very, you now, clear listening 679 00:29:26.478 --> 00:29:28.920 that you are engaged with this morning. 680 00:29:28.920 --> 00:29:32.376 And thanks Marianne very much for that too. 681 00:29:32.376 --> 00:29:34.626 So we have now a worksheet 682 00:29:34.626 --> 00:29:37.229 just to guide conversations for the next half hour 683 00:29:37.229 --> 00:29:39.672 at your table. 684 00:29:39.672 --> 00:29:41.730 And you've been sitting there comfortably 685 00:29:41.730 --> 00:29:43.224 with each other and I'd encourage you 686 00:29:43.224 --> 00:29:44.568 to stay with the same group, 687 00:29:44.568 --> 00:29:46.051 but if you feel so inclined to move around 688 00:29:46.051 --> 00:29:49.325 you're welcome to do that as well. 689 00:29:49.325 --> 00:29:54.325 But it's in your packet, on the right hand side, 690 00:29:55.042 --> 00:29:57.336 about the third or fourth sheet in. 691 00:29:57.336 --> 00:30:02.336 (background conversations) 692 00:30:07.992 --> 00:30:09.570 And what I'm going to ask you to do 693 00:30:09.570 --> 00:30:11.362 is talk with each other with these questions. 694 00:30:11.362 --> 00:30:14.477 And there's three questions. 695 00:30:14.477 --> 00:30:16.216 The first one is really just to connect 696 00:30:16.216 --> 00:30:18.285 with what was talked about. 697 00:30:18.285 --> 00:30:20.578 Really begin with yourselves, 698 00:30:20.578 --> 00:30:23.896 what resonated for you? 699 00:30:23.896 --> 00:30:25.432 That means what resonated 700 00:30:25.432 --> 00:30:29.496 in terms of ways that you liked it, 701 00:30:29.496 --> 00:30:30.264 you agreed with it. 702 00:30:30.264 --> 00:30:31.821 Also, what rubbed you? 703 00:30:31.821 --> 00:30:34.562 What was it that you found to be 704 00:30:34.562 --> 00:30:36.994 challenging or concerning? 705 00:30:36.994 --> 00:30:38.274 And then the next question, 706 00:30:38.274 --> 00:30:40.546 in what ways might those influence 707 00:30:40.546 --> 00:30:42.989 your teaching and or advising? 708 00:30:42.989 --> 00:30:45.240 Many people here hold multiple roles. 709 00:30:45.240 --> 00:30:46.424 So think about that. 710 00:30:46.424 --> 00:30:47.629 A lot of the message this morning 711 00:30:47.629 --> 00:30:49.837 was about placing this information 712 00:30:49.837 --> 00:30:51.960 that we heard today in the context 713 00:30:51.960 --> 00:30:54.157 of our role as instructors, 714 00:30:54.157 --> 00:30:56.440 different than our role in other ways. 715 00:30:56.440 --> 00:30:58.018 Like when we're out in various settings 716 00:30:58.018 --> 00:31:00.173 or functioning as a clinician, 717 00:31:00.173 --> 00:31:04.397 or administrator, or in other aspects of our lives. 718 00:31:04.397 --> 00:31:07.735 So in the role of instructor. 719 00:31:07.735 --> 00:31:09.677 Given that information that you've learned, 720 00:31:09.677 --> 00:31:13.069 also discuss the differences among those roles. 721 00:31:13.069 --> 00:31:13.954 Where is the rub? 722 00:31:13.954 --> 00:31:15.575 Where is the opportunity? 723 00:31:15.575 --> 00:31:18.018 Find the edge for our own development 724 00:31:18.018 --> 00:31:19.554 and our own learning. 725 00:31:19.554 --> 00:31:21.133 How will we bring this into our relationships 726 00:31:21.133 --> 00:31:22.690 with our students? 727 00:31:22.690 --> 00:31:25.847 What do we need to build as an infrastructure 728 00:31:25.847 --> 00:31:29.325 to support all of us in this work 729 00:31:29.325 --> 00:31:31.597 to keep students informed et cetera, 730 00:31:31.597 --> 00:31:34.413 and to support the safety and wellbeing of students. 731 00:31:34.413 --> 00:31:35.949 So that they're in an environment, 732 00:31:35.949 --> 00:31:37.101 and we're all in an environment 733 00:31:37.101 --> 00:31:39.245 where learning is what it's about. 734 00:31:39.245 --> 00:31:41.378 And that's what we're here to do. 735 00:31:41.378 --> 00:31:43.650 So take time, talk for a good half hour 736 00:31:43.650 --> 00:31:45.111 then we'll come back. 737 00:31:45.111 --> 00:31:47.744 Hannah Cartman has volunteered very generously 738 00:31:47.744 --> 00:31:50.527 to help me, when we do talk back. 739 00:31:50.527 --> 00:31:52.319 And she'll take notes up online. 740 00:31:52.319 --> 00:31:54.729 But if you could identify a recorder 741 00:31:54.729 --> 00:31:57.353 and a reporter. 742 00:31:57.353 --> 00:31:59.209 Use the yellow sheets to write down 743 00:31:59.209 --> 00:32:02.377 any questions that you aren't able to address 744 00:32:02.377 --> 00:32:04.116 at your table. 745 00:32:04.116 --> 00:32:05.631 But just you know highlights 746 00:32:05.631 --> 00:32:07.764 of what your table would like 747 00:32:07.764 --> 00:32:11.039 the rest of us to hear from what you've talked about. 748 00:32:11.039 --> 00:32:13.129 Okay? 749 00:32:13.129 --> 00:32:14.934 Thank you.