Globalization of Doctoral Education in Social Work

This session examines challenges and opportunities presented by growing trends of globalization in social work doctoral education. Not only have the number of international students within U.S. social work doctoral programs grown, there has also been an increasing demand for social work and social welfare faculty and scholars in other countries. These dynamics create special challenges for U.S. doctoral programs, demanding clarification of the academic market for which the growing numbers of international doctoral graduates are being prepared. Simultaneously these trends also provide tremendous opportunities to develop cross-national and cross-cultural social work and social welfare research opportunities.