Week 2: Connect our students with activities I am a social worker. I should be good at this. Connecting students and others with activities!  And, I like to do this. In fact, this is one of my favorite things.  Connecting students and others with activities and other people and seeing them like the activities, flourish, […]

As I wrote last week, for the next seven weeks I am taking a topic from the VSU Fall convocation and writing about it on my blog. This week my topic is “Get to know students.”  Most teachers at any level would agree how important it is to get to know students, but this week […]

August  & Anxiety Today began our first day of meetings before classes start. These are meetings for Valdosta State University faculty and staff. I have meetings every day this week. Today was the convocation, tomorrow is the College of Education & Human Services (COEHS) from 9:30 am to 3 pm, Wednesday & Thursday are Courageous […]

Here we go again! Getting ready for a new semester.  I think most teachers/professors/instructors feel a bit (or a lot) anxious as the new academic year is beginning. This will be my 20th year of teaching full-time in a Social Work program.  I taught in a BSW program at Mississippi State University in Fall 1998 […]

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Diane Carol Holliman PhD, LCSW PhD   &  Halim Faisal LCSW This idea for this workshop was conceived in a small group discussion on “Climate change and the (lack of) future/intergenerational ethics in social work” that was part of the Global Partnership for Transformative Social Work Gathering in Salisbury, England, June 15-18, 2017. At this […]