CSWE Membership

CSWE represents everyone who teaches at, studies at, and works for an accredited social work program. There are two categories of membership you may qualify for: Full Membership and Associate Membership. 

Full membership is a cost-effective way for a program to provide its entire team with CSWE membership, including individuals with paid faculty, administrative, or managerial appointments in programs accredited by CSWE and those in candidacy status. Students from accredited or candidate social work programs are included in this category. 

Associate membership is for individuals and eligible programs and organizations, including emeritus and retired social work faculty and administrators, community college and junior college faculty and students, members of agencies, fellowships, professional libraries and library associations and other social work-aligned organizations, and international and domestic social work faculty, staff, and students.

To join, you must first create your account. Full members are required to link their account to their accredited or in-candidacy program. If you wish to become an individual member, create your account. Click here to initiate the process.

Each spring, CSWE initiates the Annual Survey of Social Work Programs. This survey gathers comprehensive information regarding social work programs, including data on students, graduates, and faculty members. Among the data collected is the number of graduates from each program for the academic year. These graduation counts are used to determine the program membership dues, in accordance with the administrative fees, listed in the Full Membership section above. Program invoices are distributed to all designated primary contacts for programs during the first half of the year. 

Associate Member dues depend on the categories listed above in the Associate Membership section.

The membership year runs annually from July 1 to June 30, or for all membership categories. Membership invoices are distributed in January with a payment due date of May 1. 

Please reach out to our Member Services staff who would be happy to issue you a copy of your annual membership dues invoice. You can email [email protected].

Membership dues invoices are emailed annually to the primary contact of your institution (program membership) and to individuals (individual membership). 

Primary contacts can pay by credit card through the CSWE member portal. Log in, click on "My Account," then "My Invoices." Program members can pay under "Pay Company Invoices" and associate members under "Pay Individual Dues." 

If you are a staff member responsible for processing the annual membership dues payment but not the primary contact for a program membership, you may request to be designated as the "Financial Contact" for your program. This designation will allow you to make credit card payments through the member portal. 

To be listed as the financial contact, please contact Joann Brown-Thompson, Membership Coordinator, via email at [email protected] or by phone at 703-519-2067.

CSWE accepts credit card, check, and bank transfer/ACH. Credit card payments can be processed through the CSWE Member Portal for primary contacts and financial contacts for both institutional and individual memberships by logging into your CSWE account. 

Credit card payments can also be accepted by phone by calling the CSWE Member Services at: 703-519-2067 during regular business hours. 

Please send checks to: Council for Social Work Education, 333 John Carlyle Street, Suite 400, Alexandria, VA, 22314 

Contact [email protected] to set up bank transfer/ACH payments. 

Members can check their membership status by logging into their CSWE account, accessing their profile via the My Account tab, and clicking on My Membership.

Yes, please contact Member Services at [email protected] to request to convert from an individual membership to a membership through your social work program.

Your access to CSWE member benefits will commence after you fully activate your account. After creating your member profile, please allow a period of 24 hours for the account activation process to be completed. When your membership is active, you will begin to receive CSWE’s weekly newsletter, Compass, within two weeks of activating your membership. If you do not receive it in your inbox, please reach out to the Member Services team at [email protected].

To maintain your membership, the program you are transferring to must be an active member. To confirm the status, please contact the Member Services team at [email protected] or call 703-519-2067. They can assist you with updating your member profile and linking your new institution’s information to your account.

Visit the membership portal to update your membership information.

Yes, we do. Faculty with emeritus status are considered members through their program and should remain linked through their program. Retirees who do not have emeritus status may join as individual members.

If you experience any password difficulties, please click on the “I forgot my password” link to reset your password. Any additional difficulties, please contact the Member Services Staff at [email protected] or call 703-519-2067 during standard business hours.