Strategic Priority: Student Experience, Learning and Success
At a Glance: Key Actions 2023-24
$1,127, 653
Awards, scholarships and bursaries provided to our students in 2023-24
$932,040
Graduate students
$195,613
Undergraduate students
Undergraduate Programs
Riley Brandt
First Cohort Enters New BSW Program, Fall 2024
For the fall of 2024, our faculty is pleased to announce the launch of our redesigned Bachelor of Social Work program. The three years spent developing the program reflect extensive community engagement and consultation, followed by intensive preparation and course design.
Our new BSW features a fully online option, meaning we are welcoming learners from across Canada. Students who prefer classroom learning also have the option of a “blended” degree, with a full day each week at our Calgary, Edmonton or Lethbridge campuses.
While our new BSW is built on the foundation that has made our program a national and international leader over the decades, there’s a lot about it to celebrate.
Graduate Programs
David Kotsibie
Indigenous Ways of Knowing in Leadership
Voices of Community Collaboration on Youth Mental Health: International Symposium on Youth Mental Health
Led by Dr. Dora Tam, PhD and the Children and Youth Mental Health (CYMH) Project team, the Voices of Community Collaboration was a hybrid International Symposium on youth mental health, held in Grande Prairie Alberta. The well-attended symposium presented research outcomes focused on youth mental health and wellness from the CYMH Project and included youth-led session on the importance of sharee spaces on Youth Mental Wellness. The event also featured sharing and discussion by youth and their parents and presentations from non-profit, social service organizations in Canada and in Asia.
Professional Development
Dr. Francis Boakye, PhD, teaches in the non-profit leadership course
Don McSwiney
2023-24 Highlights
Our professional development program was transformed by the faculty’s Reciprocity Project to contain community strategies. New programs, such as the non-profit leadership program look to lay a foundation for systems change through innovation. This new approach looks to empower social and human services professionals through innovative, tailored development, providing them with the skills and tools needed for meaningful change and advancing well-being, sustainability, and social justice.
2023 UCalgary Teaching Award-Winners
Our faculty was once again well-represented in the University of Calgary’s annual Teaching Awards:
Educational Leadership (Group}
Social Work Field Education Team (Patti-Jo Aiken; Carrie Blaug; Dr. Amy Fulton, PhD; Stephanie Grant; Leeann Hilsen; Daljit Kaur; Dr. Angela Judge-Stasiak, EdD; Lorraine Letkemann; Julie Mann-Johnson; Krista Osborne; Wendy Sera; Dr. Serena Visser, PhD)
Experiential Learning Initiatives
Dr. Angelique Jenney, PhD
Indigenous Ways of Knowing
Chantel Large
2024 UCalgary Teaching and Learning Grants
UCalgary Teaching and Learning Grants support research on student learning and teaching practices. Despite a record number of applications, three of our faculty’s innovative proposals were successful.
Designing Interactive, Unfolding Case Study Simulation Learning Objects (principal investigator: Dr. Carolyn Gulbrandsen, PhD)
Sustainable, Culturally Inclusive, Peer-Based Writing Development Model for Graduate Students (principal investigator: Dr. Liza Lorenzetti, PhD)
What Are Student and Faculty Experiences and Learnings About Ethical Usage of Generative AI and IBL in Higher Education? (principal investigator: Dr. Beth Archer-Kuhn, PhD)
Illustration: Ginette Crichlow
Annual Growth
2024 Reimagined BSW launched
2024 New graduate certificate in Indigenous Ways of Knowing in Leadership created
2023 New Professional Development / Community Strategies group looks to create the foundation for systems change
2023 New BSW curriculum created
2022 Extensive consultation with community, alumni, students and faculty informs new BSW
2020 Graduate Certificate program launched
2020 Reimagined MSW launched
2019 Extensive consultation with community, alumni, students and faculty informs new MSW
Memorandums of Understanding (MOU) Signed
We continue to forge connections with other post-secondary institutions around the world:
2024
- University of Gondar, Ethiopia
- Karabuk University, Turkey
2023
- Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM)
2017
- Sun Yat-Sen University, China
- South China Agricultural University