Angela Thomas

Dr. Anne Conway, Urban Child Institute Endowed Professor, has accepted a joint position as an associate professor of pediatrics at the University of Tennessee Health Science Center (UTHSC). Dr. Conway has also accepted an affiliation with Le Bonheur Children’s Hospital in Memphis.  Dr. Conway’s primary appointment will remain with the UT College of Social Work.…

Thanks to the Anti-Racism Learning Collaborative, a group of 30 students, 20 field instructors, 10 round table leaders, along with some CSW faculty and staff were engaged in learning to reduce racism and promote anti-oppressive practices. Funded by The Social Justice Innovation Initiative (SJII), Dr. Tanya Smith Brice, CSWE’s vice president of education, led a…

The Brain & Behavior Research Foundation recently announced that two extraordinary mental health advocates, UTCSW Board of Visitors member Altha J. Stewart, M.D. and Robert van Voren, FRCPsych (HON), have won the 2022 Pardes Humanitarian Prize in Mental Health. Both recipients are dedicated to serving people disadvantaged by structural racism and a lack of human…

The University of Tennessee College of Social Work, University of Memphis School of Social Work, Coalition of Black Social Workers, and NASW, Tennessee Chapter have joined together to lead a task force to review disparities in licensure exam pass rate data shared in August by the Association of Social Work Boards (ASWB). The Task Force…

UT College of Social Work Dean Responds to ASWB Passage Rate Report After reviewing the data, Dean Messinger and the college are taking steps to respond. I was pleased to see the Association for Social Work Boards (ASWB) finally release test passage data that looks at demographic factors like race, gender, age, and native language…

The UT College of Social Work recently welcomed five additional staff members to the team. These staff members work across various departments throughout the college supporting faculty, alumni, programs, and students.

Haiden Lancaster is an MSSW student in her concentration year. She is part of the Extended Study cohort and is in her third and final year. She has been instrumental in the Rocky Top the Vote campaign and is working tirelessly to get the word out to students about the importance of voting. What has…

UTCSW Professor Stan Bowie will be presenting at the Fifth Annual Engagement and Outreach Conference themed Community Engagement: Strategies, Solutions, and Impact on October 3-4, 2022. Dr. Bowie’s presentation titled Knowledge is Power: Using Participatory Action Research to Strengthen University-Community Engagement and Generate Problem-Solving Data. Participatory Action Research (PAR) is a social work research and problem-solving…

The YWCA of Knoxville and the Tennessee Valley has announced the finalists for its 37th annual Tribute to Women Awards Gala, and UTCSW alumna Cynthia Finch (MSSW ’81) was named a finalist in the Racial and Social Justice category. Finch is the founder and president of New Direction Health Care Solutions. She coordinated vaccine clinics…