Colorado State University Offers Master Of Social Work Program To Western Slope Residents
Monday, January 26, 1998
FORT COLLINS--The department of social work at Colorado
State University will be offering a master of social work degree
program for Western Slope residents beginning this summer.
Colorado State now is accepting applications for a new four-
year part-time program which will allow students to earn master
of social work degrees while still living and working on the
Western Slope. An information meeting will be held at 6 p.m. Feb.
3 in the College Center Fletcher Room at Mesa State College in
Grand Junction. Applications will be available at the meeting and
Colorado State professors will answer questions about the program
and the admissions process. Applications are due by Feb. 15.
"There is a tremendous need for a program like this," said
Ben Granger, head of the department of social work at Colorado
State. "There are many people in the social work area who are
essential to Western Slope communities. This program will allow
them to move forward in their field without leaving their
communities, which has never been an option before."
The master of social work program will be hosted at Mesa
State College in Grand Junction, and is the same program of study
offered to students on the Colorado State campus in Fort Collins.
Program participants will be charged Colorado State's regular in-
state tuition and fees. Students will complete the majority of
the program in Grand Junction while attending evening and weekend
classes with on-site faculty and interactive video. Local social
service agencies and employers on the Western Slope also will
cooperate with Colorado State to provide training opportunities
for students enrolled in the program. No more than two weeks
during summer semesters will be spent on the Colorado State
campus.
The program has been approved as an off-campus, state-funded
program, but to begin in July as scheduled, the program depends
on acceptance of at least 30 qualified applicants.
Initially, only one group of students will be admitted to the
program. Admission of other students in subsequent years will
depend on sufficient demand.
Colorado State's undergraduate and graduate social work
programs were recently reaccredited by the Council on Social Work
Education through the year 2005. This reaccreditation will apply
to graduates of the Western Slope program.
For more information, contact Heather Exby of the Western
Colorado Graduate Center at 1-800-891-3795 or Dawn Carlson in the
department of social work at (970) 491-2536.
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