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University of Wisconsin Green Bay
University of Wisconsin Oshkosh
Collaborative MSW Program
GRADUATE
STUDENT HANDBOOK
ACADEMIC YEAR
2011-2012
(Revised May 2011)
Bringing innovative social work leadership
education to Northeast Wisconsin

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TABLE OF CONTENTS
I. INTRODUCTION..........................................................................................................4
Intended Audience...............................................................................................................4
Persons to Contact for Essential Program Information........................................................4
Handbook Content...............................................................................................................5
II. COLLABORATIVE MSW PROGRAM OVERVIEW............................................6
Program History...................................................................................................................6
Program Mission..................................................................................................................6
Program Goals .....................................................................................................................8
Program Competencies (Student Outcome Objectives) ......................................................8
Foundation Year Competencies (Student Outcome Objectives).........................................9
Advanced Year Competencies (Student Outcome Objectives).........................................10
III. PROGRAM CURRICULUM...................................................................................13
Foundation Curriculum......................................................................................................14
Advanced Curriculum........................................................................................................15
Applied Research Components of the Curriculum............................................................17
Field Research Project .......................................................................................................17
Development and Implementation of the Field Research Project .....................................17
Personnel for the Field Research Project...........................................................................19
Advanced HBSE and Elective Courses .............................................................................19
Independent Study .............................................................................................................21
Preparation for the LCSW .................................................................................................22
IV. THE COUNCIL ON SOCIAL WORK EDUCATION AND ACCREDITATION23
V. PROGRAM STRUCTURE........................................................................................24
Program Committees ........................................................................................................24
MSW Student Organization..............................................................................................25
Program Faculty................................................................................................................25
VI. PROGRAM POLICIES AND PROCEDURES......................................................27
A. Admissions: Policies, Procedures and Standards.........................................................27
Admissions Criteria ...............................................................................................27
Admissions Process ...............................................................................................28
Credit for Life Experience or Work.......................................................................29
English as a Second Language...............................................................................29

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Early Withdrawal from the MSW Program...........................................................29
Reinstatement of Students who Withdraw from the Program...............................30
Transfer Credits .....................................................................................................30
B. Program Standards and Expectations............................................................................31
Academic Integrity.................................................................................................31
Advising Policy and Procedures............................................................................32
Attendance and Participation.................................................................................33
Confidentiality .......................................................................................................33
Distance Education ................................................................................................33
Grades....................................................................................................................34
NASW Code of Ethics...........................................................................................34
C. Student Services and Equitable Treatment...................................................................35
Faculty-Student Grievances...................................................................................35
Non-Discrimination ...............................................................................................35
Sexual Harassment.................................................................................................35
Social Work Certification......................................................................................36
Students with Disabilities ......................................................................................36
D. Insufficient Performance in the Program: Criteria and Procedures.............................37
Academic Performance Concerns: Academic Integrity.........................................37
Academic Performance Concerns: Insufficient Grades.........................................37
Academic Performance Concerns: Professionalism and Personal Performance...38
Academic Status Review Committee.....................................................................39
Grade Appeal Policy..............................................................................................41
VII. APPENDIX...............................................................................................................43
Student Portfolio in Preparation for Becoming a Licensed Clinical Social Worker ........43

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I. INTRODUCTION
Intended Audience
The intent of this handbook is to provide information about the UW-Green Bay and UW-
Oshkosh Collaborative MSW Program for use by students, faculty and agency affiliates. The
PDF format available on the MSW Web-page will most likely reach a larger audience of persons
who have an interest in knowing more about how this particular collaborative program operates.
The PDF version of the Handbook is designed to ensure easy on-screen access to program
information. Its content is linked by hypertext to the Collaborative MSW Home Page and
subsequent pages by links which appear in blue underlined hypertext. The Collaborative MSW
Program Coordinator has primary responsibility for the maintenance of the MSW Collaborative
Program’s Web pages. Its portal page is located at:
http://www.uwgb.edu/socwork/BSWHome.htm
The Collaborative MSW Program may also be accessed from its University of Wisconsin-
Oshkosh Social Work Department link at:
http://www.uwosh.edu/socialwork/msw
Persons to Contact for Essential Program Information
Collaborative MSW Program Coordinator: Dr. Judy Martin.
Phone: [phone]
Email: [email protected]
Program Assistant: Jeanne Berg
Phone: [phone]
Email: [email protected]
The MSW Collaborative Program’s mail address is:
Collaborative MSW Program
University of Wisconsin Green Bay
CL 710
2420 Nicolet Drive
Green Bay, WI 54311-7001

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Handbook Content
This handbook includes:
a) A program overview that describes the Program’s formative development, its faculty and
those structures that facilitate student and agency participation;
b) A brief description of the Program’s curriculum themes, mission, goals, and its objectives
that have been stated as practice competencies at both foundation and advanced levels;
c) A presentation of the curriculum in its entirety, including the foundation and advanced
levels as well as the two concentrations in Advanced Direct Practice and Administration
and Management;
d) A description of the role played by the Council on Social Work Education in
accreditation;
e) A listing of policies and procedures pertaining to the program.
The appendix includes information about preparing for the Licensed Clinical Social Worker
Credential (LCSW).

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II. COLLABORATIVE MSW PROGRAM OVERVIEW
Program History
Formal planning for the Collaborative MSW Program was initiated in the fall, 1999 through a
series of joint meetings between the UW Green Bay and Oshkosh Social Work Faculty and their
administrators. These meetings culminated with the submission of an application one year later
to the University of Wisconsin System for joint entitlement to plan a collaborative graduate
program. The UW System granted initial approval to begin planning in Spring, 2001.
The two social work faculties from Green Bay and Oshkosh then met regularly together with
their advisory group members to plan how the new program was to be implemented, including
structural arrangement and curricular options to be derived from formal needs assessment. In
August 2001, at a large invitational gathering of administrators, community agency
representatives and faculty members, there was unanimous agreement to formally request
authorization from the UW System to implement a graduate MSW program and to apply for
Council on Social Work Education (CSWE) accreditation.
The preparation process was parallel because documents required by the UW System and by
CSWE were remarkably similar. The UW System authorization request was approved by the
UW Board of Regents on October 11, 2002. The application for candidacy was approved by the
CSWE Commission on Accreditation in July, 2003. The Program has had three successive
accreditation visits and in 2006 received initial accreditation through June 2010.
Program implementation was initiated in fall, 2003 with the enrollment of the first cohort of
students. The faculties are proud of the efforts to add a graduate social work degree program in
this region—an event anticipated for several decades has become a reality. Note that this
graduate program is independent of the respective BSW programs uniquely operated by each
University and possessing their own field education policies and practices.
Program Mission
As a result of extensive faculty planning, market research studies, and feedback from consultant
outside reviewers, the Program’s mission was developed. This mission statement embodies six
major program themes, which permeate content in the advanced concentrations in (1) advanced
direct practice and (2) administration and management. This mission reflects the unique needs
of social work practitioners and clients in the region, the broad mission of the social work
profession, and the academic standards for graduate education established by CSWE.
Development of the program’s mission was also strongly influenced by the UW System Cluster
Core Mission with respect to inter-institutional collaboration as an effective means for sharing of
resources and educational outreach. It was further influenced by CSWE support for
collaborative education.1
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CSWE (1999) ―Myths and Opportunities, The Impact of Discipline-Specific Accreditation on Inter-professional
Education (46-52).

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The University of Wisconsin-Green Bay and the University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh have
established a Collaborative MSW Program that prepares social workers for advanced practice as
facilitators, partners and leaders in planned change activities with service users and community
service providers. The program’s goal is to educate professionals ready to assume administrative
and direct practice leadership roles within this region’s increasingly diverse and transforming
rural and metropolitan environments. The mission statement of the Collaborative MSW Program
is stated as follows:
The advanced professional Master of Social Work degree is a joint effort by the University of
Wisconsin-Green Bay and Oshkosh to prepare social workers for advanced practice as
facilitators, partners and leaders in planned change activities with service users and community
service providers in the region. The program’s goal is to educate professionals ready to assume
administrative and direct practice leadership roles within this region’s increasingly diverse and
transforming rural environments. It aims to prepare practitioners who can work to strengthen
families through programs, services, and policies supportive of family and community well
being, with special emphasis on family needs in rural and tribal settings. Concomitantly, the
program aims to promote interdisciplinary learning and coordinated inter-professional practice to
actively address social issues. Additional emphasis is placed on professional acceptance of
responsibility to participate in civic life and to provide leadership in the community and to
encourage the inclusion and representation of Native Americans and members of other cultures
and diverse groups in the region. Finally, the advanced program strives to address adult learner
expectations for ease of access and user-friendly content delivery.
Embedded in this mission statement are six program themes:
•Public Sector Practice—improving the quality of life of people and communities served by
publicly funded agencies (including private sector programs receiving public funds) and
encouraging democratic participation in community decision making in order to influence
quality of life concerns.
•Leadership Roles—assuming leadership roles in direct practice, administration and policy
development in order to strengthen communities, organizations, and families.
•Family Focus—enhancing family functioning, improving community and agencies supports for
families, and enhancing the quality of life for families within the region.
•Diversity—promoting advocacy and interventions to enhance the well being of vulnerable and
oppressed people within the region.
•Rural Emphasis—reflecting the inclusion of the unique needs and circumstances of rural
people, agencies, and communities in the region.

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•Interdisciplinary Cooperation—encouraging active involvement with other academic units
and professional disciplines in order to address quality of life concerns.
All course work throughout the program is built on and infused with these themes.
Program Goals
The mission and themes suggest seven goals of the Collaborative MSW Program. The Program
is designed to:
1. Prepare advanced degree social workers to assume administrative leadership and direct
practice leadership roles in public and tribal sector practice within an increasingly diverse
and transforming rural environment.
2. Promote and provide regional professional development activities that support advanced
practice learning, including commensurate use of Internet and distance education modes
of course delivery.
3. Through research, evaluation of practice and program evaluation, contribute to the
development of professional knowledge aimed toward the strengthening of family
functioning and the enhancement of community and agency supports for users of social
work services.
4. Undertake activities inside and outside the classroom that will contribute to the
development and improvement of social policy at local, regional, state, and national
levels as it pertains to families or other users of public, tribal, and other culturally
relevant social services.
5. Develop and utilize collaborative partnerships with other academic units and degree
programs in the UW System or elsewhere and with other organizational entities in the
Northeastern region.
6. Provide active leadership in the social work profession and engage in public service
activities within the Northeast region, actively encouraging democratic community
decision-making in order to favorably influence quality of life concerns.
7. Through teaching, research, evaluation, policy development and advocacy activities
inside and outside the classroom, actively confront oppression in the community,
especially as it affects individuals and families using public social services.
Program Competencies (Student Outcome Objectives)
The Collaborative MSW Program is a competency-based program and as such, the competencies
serve as educational outcomes in the preparation of master’s prepared social workers. While
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are two distinct sets of competencies –those for students in the foundation year and those for
students in the advanced year. While curriculum development efforts were undertaken with
these competencies in mind, students also embrace the competencies in their assessment of
learning needs and subsequent goal setting for the field. Individual courses in the Program are
designed to help students develop skills in each of the fourteen competency areas.
Foundation and advanced competencies (fourteen each) are written in a general way, which
allow students to tailor their concentration (either direct practice or administration and
management) and their special interests (child welfare, mental health, criminal justice,
gerontology, etc.) to their field experiences. The foundation and advanced year competencies are
listed below. These competencies reflect ―end points‖ or outcomes students are expected to
achieve by the time they graduate from the program. Foundation year competencies indicate
steps toward achievement of these outcomes, levels at which MSW students should be
performing by the time they complete the foundation curriculum.
Foundation Year Competencies (Student Outcome Objectives)
•MSW Foundation 1: Link interdisciplinary knowledge, including that developed in prior
practice, to emerging assessment, intervention and evaluation skills.
•MSW Foundation 2: Recognize and utilize social work values, understanding their
implications for generalist practice.
•MSW Foundation 3: Carry out assessment, planning and intervention activities that reflect
generalist social work practice principles and approaches.
•MSW Foundation 4: Seek out and evaluate ―best practice‖ models in generalist social work
practice.
•MSW Foundation 5: Develop and strengthen relationship and enabling skills in generalist
practice contexts.
•MSW Foundation 6: Recognize resource gaps and participate in activities designed to redress
these gaps.
•MSW Foundation 7: Create alliances and collaborations with diverse clientele.
•MSW Foundation 8: Articulate an understanding of the role of the generalist practitioner in
organizational program planning and policy development.
•MSW Foundation 9: Engage in activities designed to improve services and make them more
congruent with client needs.
•MSW Foundation 10: Function effectively in one’s role as a generalist practitioner in a
particular social service organizational setting.

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•MSW Foundation 11: Develop skills in program evaluation and evaluation of practice
methodologies.
•MSW Foundation 12: Recognize the impact of oppression on the lives of clients, challenge
oppressive thinking and practices. Apply strengths and empowerment perspectives in work with
diverse clientele.
•MSW Foundation 13: Understand the elements of ethical professional practice and recognize
and evaluate ethical dilemmas in practice.
•MSW Foundation 14: Use peer and supervisory support effectively in an effort to improve
one’s practice.
Advanced Year Competencies (Student Outcome Objectives)
The requisite advanced practice competencies are to be demonstrated by program graduates in
order to meet the goal of preparing advanced degree social workers. Advanced year
competencies represent the levels of achievement at which MSW students should be performing
by the time they graduate from the Program.
MSW Advanced 1: Applies an interdisciplinary orientation in the systematic change
process (e.g., intake and assessment, plan development; interventions; evaluation and
reassessment; and/or termination) with multi-level systems.
MSW Advanced 2: Utilizes the strengths perspective and a capacity-building approach in
the systematic change process with multi-level systems.
MSW Advanced 3: Competently employs interventions that reflect principles and
methodologies consistent with social work practice in community-based, family-focused
settings, particularly those that reflect practice from an empowerment and strengths-
based perspective. The MSW student appropriately applies such interventions relative to
his/her practice methodology (Administration/Management or Advanced Direct Practice).
Students apply a three-step process:
a. Student researches and assesses best-practice interventions using an empowerment
and strengths perspective framework.
b. Student integrates best-practice interventions into the community-based agency
setting using an empowerment and strengths perspective framework.
c. Student evaluates impact of best-practice interventions within the community-
based agency structure using an empowerment and strengths perspective
framework.
MSW Advanced 4: Provides leadership by conducting empirical research activities
designed to shape more effective public/tribal family intervention practices and provide
supporting data for policy changes that enhance family well-being. These activities may
include qualitative or quantitative methodologies directed at needs assessment, process or