CRECD Award

Council on Racial, Ethnic, Cultural Diversity Award-PhD Student, Jr. Faculty Member

The award recognizes doctoral students and junior faculty members with outstanding scholarship in the areas of racial, ethnic, and cultural diversity in social work education. An award will be given to a doctoral student and a junior faculty member during the CSWE Annual Conference.
 

Award Judging Criteria

• CSWE members who will attend and present their paper presentation or posters at the 2025 CSWE Annual Conference
• Doctoral students and junior faculty members who are the only or primary author of the paper or poster
• Papers or posters that reflect and promote research or scholarship about members of historically and emerging underrepresented racial, ethnic, and cultural groups to inform teaching, practice, or policy development by educators, students, or alumni
• Papers or posters that reflect and promote research or scholarship to understand the dynamics of intersectionality of the experiences of historically and emerging underrepresented racial, ethnic, and cultural groups in social work education
• At least two members of CRECD will review the nominations and select the awardee. Biographical information and a photo of the awardee will appear on the CSWE website and may be included in the CSWE Annual Conference Final Program if space permits.
• CSWE membership is an eligibility requirement for all commission and council awards. To check your membership status, or link your membership your social work program visit https://www.cswe.org/membership and click Link to Program/Join CSWE.

 

If Selected as an Award Winner:

• At least one (1) and up to (2) authors must agree to present their paper presentation or poster at CSWE's Annual Conference.
• At least one author must attend the award presentation.

*Proposal Submission (via Cadmium) is not required to be eligible for this award. CSWE will coordinate with award winner to include their paper presentation in the final program book.
 

Applications