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Stimulus, Vol. 19, No. 1 University of Tennessee, Knoxville TRACE: Tennessee Research and Creative Exchange Social Work Office of Research & Public Service Stimulus Alumni Newsletter (SWORPS) 10-1995 Stimulus, Vol. 19, No. 1 UT College of Social Work Follow this and additional works at: https://trace.tennessee.edu/utk_socstim Part of the Social Work Commons Recommended Citation Stimulus, Vol. 19, No. 1. (1995). Trace. https://trace.tennessee.edu/utk_socstim/64 This Newsletter is brought to you for free and open access by the Social Work Office of Research & Public Service (SWORPS) at TRACE: Tennessee Research and Creative Exchange. It has been accepted for inclusion in Stimulus Alumni Newsletter by an authorized administrator of TRACE: Tennessee Research and Creative Exchange. For more information, please contact [email protected]. Social Work Enters the Information Age examples in the electronic files for of the remote locations begins to students to download. Connectus will speak, the professor and students m also provide improved access to the the other two locations can see the Internet and the Work-Wide Web, a speaker on television monitors in the1r rapidly growing global multimedia respective locations. This two-way information resource. Future benefits linkage of the three locations allows fo of Connectus may include enhanced a rich exchange of information and field-agency support as agencies ideas between social work students develop e-mail resources, improved across the state. contact with Alumni, and desk-top Interactive television makes it video conferencing between CSW possible to offer courses that previ­ locations. ously had been taught in a single location to all locations--for example, Interactive Television substance abuse treatment. Addition­ ally, interactive television now makes it In the summer of 1994, the CSW began possible to offer classes that would to use interactive television as a Dr. David Patterson, who helped de1•elopthe multimedia lab at the UT College of Social Work, have had low enrollment in one demonstrates to .1·tudent.� how interactive media works. teaching tool. Interactive television location to larger numbers of students allows a professor in any of the across the three location of the college. locations to teach to students in all To date, Drs. Muammer Cetingok, The rapid advancement of in­ mail (e-mail) access to one another and three CSW locations. Moreover, the Marsha Marley, Elaine Spaulding, and I formation technology into personal, to the various academic committees of professor can interact with students in have all taught interactive television social, cultural, and economic realms is the College. all locations. Anytime a student in one perhaps an inescapable fact of modern Improved e-mail access helps (continued on page 14) life. Access to and competence in minimize two significant barriers to utilizing information technology is communication and consensus-building becoming important to the empower­ for staff, faculty, and students: (a) it ment of the so·cial work profession and removes "place" as a barrier to dialogue UT School of Social Work the clients it serves. The College of on specific subjects, and (b) it elimi­ Social Work has recently responded to nates the barrier of "time" (i.e., "I've got the opportunities and challenges posed to be ready to listen when you are Is Reaccredited by the information age by embracmg ready to talk,") because e-mail can wait College engaged in minor revisions of three applications of information until one has the time to deal with it. the master's curriculum. These changes technology--the development of a This improved communication capacity will be implemented beginning with the college-wide computer network, an will enhance collaborative efforts in the fa ll semester of 1995. Changes include interactive television-instruction areas of research, scholarship, teaching, program, and a multimedia lab. and College administration. + Moving from a one-semester to Students across the three one-year foundation. All students will I Wide-Area Network locations will have e-mail to access each I be required to take three social work The name of the college-wide com­ other and faculty through off-campus practice courses (including one course , , puter network is Connectus. When modem dial-in or via the computer lab \ in macro-practice) and two courses in completed, this wide-area network in each location. Students will be able human behavior, as well as courses in (WAN) will electronically integrate the to access databases, CSW-related research methods, social welfare policy, Memphis, Nashville, and Knoxville oppression, and field practice. documents (e.g., the College catalog) ,./ I ., \ ..--- locations, along with the B.S.S.W. and and course material made available on .._ J + Changing the Administration and Ph.D. programs, the new Children's Connectus. Connectus will serve as T his past sprin� the Counc on Planning concentration to Management Research Center, and the statewide electronic document repositories for all Social Work Education reaccredited� and Community Practice and renaming offices of the Social Work Office of regular and interactive television the UT. College of Social Work's the Social Work Treatment concentra­ Research and Public Service classes. Instead of using handouts, M.S.S.W. program. The College's tion "Clinical Social Work Practice." (SWORPS). Faculty and staff in all faculty will be able to place study program has full accreditation status + Changing the minimum require­ offices will have easy-to-use electronic guides, charts, graphics, notes, and case until 200 I. At the same time, the ments from 57 semester hours to 60 (continued on page /4) is published by the UT College of Social Work Eunice Shatz, Dean Jeanette Jennings, Associate Dean, Knoxville Hishashi Hirayama, Associate Dean, Memphis William Beil, Assoc1ate Dean, Nashville Paul Campbell, Director. SWORPS Margot Morrow, Editor We welcome news and announcements from alumni, faculty, staff, and the field. Submit material to Stimulus, Social Work Office of Research and Public Service, Henson Hall, Rm. 3 19, 1618 Cumberland Ave., Knoxville, TN 37996-3334. Publication number EO 1-40 I 0-004-96. (95054) Alumni Profile: Pam Wolf ('92), L.C.S.W.and Instructor at UT Law School �H�:tHcNWJ� As an instructor in the UT Law but once Wolf was approved--in ing to get their babies, then swearing drous events of the past two years, School, Pam Wolf, a 1992 graduate of january 1995, it was only four more before Chinese officials that they would Wolf says, "The most complicated part the UTCSW, supervises 12 M.S.S.W. months before she was assigned a child never abandon these children, then of the process was getting approval students who coordinate with third­ for adoption. going through a brief getting-to-know­ through the INS. They do a police year law students to provide services you period in the hotel where they report, check potential adoptive to legal clients. These students see 40 An Unforgettable Journey were staying in Hong Kong. parents' financial standing, complete a to 45 clients at any given time, most of On April 3, 1995, at I 0:00 a.m. Wolf "We occupied a whole wing of 9-hour home study--it is very intrusive, whom have complicated legal problems received a Federal Express package one hotel," says Wolf. "The hotel but_th_e social workers are very good." stemming from untreated mental Wolf says the Service also requires illness, homelessness, and lack of social seven references, requires applicants to security benefits. And like most social have a thorough medical evaluation, and work professionals, Ms. Wolf is no provides the Chinese government with stranger to red tape and paperwork. photographs of applicants and their Still, her most challenging recent homes. All this careful scrutiny is "assignment" was not in her profes­ understandable, says Wolf, even though sional life; it instead involved a 7-year it might seem to contradict the Chinese quest to adopt a baby. government's childbirth policy, which is "I have wanted a child for a at the root of child abandonment-­ long time--but I had to finish graduate particularly of infant girls. school first," says the petite, energetic "The Chinese system provides 39-year-old. She explains that the for only one child per couple, and there demands of adoption were not just on is still such a strong preference for a her time, but also on her pocketbook. male child that many baby girls are "The cost is between $15,000 given up for adoption--there were only and $17,000 for most people, because little girls at the orphanage--about 70 of you must pay for the trip to China and, them. On the one hand, we're support­ once you get there, for transportation ing the Chinese birthing policy by to the orphanage to get your baby." adopting their babies, but we're also Wolf traveled first to Hong Kong, then Pam Wolfbrought baby Anna Li Wolffor a vi.�it with Dean Shatz. Ms. Wolf, a single mom, saving a lot of children." to Changsha, then was bussed along adopted Anna Li from China af ter a lengthy process that involved traveling around the world. Wolf adds that people in with 22 other prospective parents to China neverthess love babies and want Yue Yang, in Hunan Province. from the Chinese government telling borrowed strollers, and we were a to know that they are well cared for. Wolf says that after trying her that she had the opportunity to sight taking all those babies up and "Strangers came up to me and other with little success to adopt an infant in adopt 6-month-old Anna Li. In the down the halls of the hotel!" She adoptive parents to thank us," she says. the U.S., she learned of Chinese package was a photograph, a medical explains that they didn't dare take the Children's Adoption International in report, Anna Li's birth date, weight, her babies out into the street because the Chinese Children'.� Adoption Interna­ Littleton, Colorado, which does all the birth place, and a message asking Wolf throngs of people made it impossible to tional, 303-347-2224, sends a group of paperwork necessary to adopt through if she would accept this child or not.
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