CSWE appoints Harriet Cohen as a new board member

Fort Worth, TX

6/9/2009

The Council on Social Work Education (CSWE) appointed Dr. Harriet Cohen to its Board of Directors. Board members are elected annually by CSWE members to replace those who have completed their three-year terms of service. Dr. Cohen, a Hartford Faculty Scholar from 2006–2008, is an associate professor in social work at TCU and has served on the CSWE Gero-Ed Center’s advisory board. She is one of seven new board members who will become active in their leadership roles on July 1.

The Council on Social Work Education is a nonprofit national association representing more than 3,000 individual members as well as graduate and undergraduate programs of professional social work education. Founded in 1952, this partnership of educational and professional institutions, social welfare agencies, and private citizens is recognized by the Council on Higher Education Accreditation (CHEA) as the sole accrediting agency for social work education in the United States.

Consisting of 23 CSWE members total, CSWE’s Board of Directors meets twice each year and oversees all organizational programs, plans, and budgets. It is responsible for the activities and accountability of all governance and program units and commissions, including final decisions to adopt or reject accreditation standards and educational policies prepared by CSWE’s Commission on Accreditation and the Commission on Curriculum and Educational Innovation. CSWE’s Board of Directors also undertakes new programs, reviews resolutions, shapes the affirmative action plan, establishes membership dues, conducts the executive director's annual performance evaluation review, and reports to the membership on its activities.