The Annual Meeting is a forum for major issues
provides a structure for exchange of information regarding curriculum development, educational administration, research and related matters
stimulates the discussion of more effective educational and research efforts
- The preparation of PhDs—yesterday, today, and tomorrow—with a goal of turning pedagogical experience into pedagogical expertise.
- The formation of scholars—academic preparation, as well as a larger set of obligations and commitments that are not only intellectual but moral.
- The debate of research versus teaching—and how working within an intellectual community can be the nexus where these two functions can actually become more productive and integrative in doctoral education.
- How we—as today’s PhDs—can serve as stewards, preparing and initiating the next generation of stewards, those keepers of the ‘ethic of the encounter’ to carry on with the knowledge, skills, practices and principles to help shape future generations of social work and social welfare scholars, educators, and practitioners.
The Carnegie Challenge
Innovation Commons
The purpose of Innovation Commons (http://icgade.ning.com) is to have a space for sharing emerging and new ideas on how social faculty, students and practitioners can transform the provision of doctoral education. It is a space for innovations without judgment…innovative ideas proposed or enacted that have or will enhance doctoral programs. The information posted on this site can include thoughts, visuals, twitters, program descriptions, videos…any media that demonstrate and promote innovative practices that might enhance the purposes of doctoral education in social work. For example, innovations could include new mentoring formats, reinvented courses or course delivery systems, home grown assessment strategies…we want to share it all!
