About the Center for Diversity and Social & Economic Justice
The Center for Diversity and Social & Economic Justice provides social work education with the opportunity to support greater diversity and social and economic justice in education, teaching, research, curricula, and leadership development.
The Center is also a resource to prepare social workers with the knowledge and skills to engage in effective practice with diverse populations and to help transform social systems in pursuit of more humane and equitable conditions.
Our foundation for this learning:
- We are concerned with increasing an understanding of the richness of people’s cultural backgrounds and perspectives along ethnoracial, gender and gender identity, sexual orientation, religious, and other intersectional dimensions.
- We strive to develop critical awareness of conditions of social injustice and their consequences, with a focus on economic and environmental injustice, including the role of social exclusion as a mechanism of oppression.
Mission
The CSWE Center for Diversity and Social & Economic Justice was established to advance the quality of social work education for a professional practice that promotes individual, family, and community well-being and social and economic justice. The Center will pursue this mission by promoting, developing, and sustaining social work leadership, teaching, research, curricula, knowledge-building, and institutional arrangements that foster the achievement of diversity and social and economic justice. It will support the commitment of social work education to provide social workers with the intellectual and practical skills needed to address issues of social inequality and injustice.