Invited Symposium IV: Grand Challenges for Social Work: Examples of Campus Compacts

Formulation of the Grand Challenges is the first step in a much longer process.  Leadership and longer-term implementation of the Grand Challenges will ultimately fall to deans, faculty, and community professionals.  There are successful precedents to follow, especially in the efforts in the field of engineering over the past six years.  Our scientific orientation and professional culture will at the same time lend a distinctive pattern to our approach.   This session will examine alternative approaches that have been taken or are planned by two schools of social work and one of the nation’s major engineering programs.  The perspective of a dean from one of the smaller, long-established schools will also be offered in recognition of the distinctive contribution these programs may make.  Roles of faculty, students, research and practice networks, and other community collaborators will be suggested, as well as alternative visions for ways in which the Grand Challenges can be adopted as hallmarks of engaged schools.