New Professor of Practice will support DSW program at the School of Social Welfare
The University of Kansas School of Social Welfare is excited to announce Dr. Lisa Street as the School’s newest professor of practice. Street starts with the School this summer and will primarily teach in and support the new, fully online Doctorate of Social Work (DSW) program, which begins this fall.
Dr. Street will coordinate and support DSW students through the program’s capstone project requirement. DSW students take six hours of capstone seminar courses that guide the development, implementation, and presentation of their capstone project, which is academically equivalent to a dissertation.
Street earned a Bachelor of Social Work summa cum laude and a Master of Social Work with a clinical concentration in children and families from the University of Missouri-Columbia. In 2016, she completed a doctoral degree in educational leadership at the University of Missouri-Columbia.
Street has 11 years of social work practice experience including medical social work (emergency center and traumatic brain injury rehabilitation), adoptions, juvenile justice, drug courts, and social work administration.
Street has been the author/coauthor and program manager for grant awards totaling over $1.7 million from agencies such as the Department of Justice, Bureau of Justice Assistance, Office of Juvenile Justice & Delinquency Prevention, and Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Reclaiming Futures.
Her research interests include teaching and learning in social work education, field education and supervision. Her work has been published in the Journal of Social Work Education, Journal of Baccalaureate Social Work, Journal of Policy Practice and Research, Field Educator and Social Work & Christianity.
For 15 years, Dr. Street has been a full-time social work educator. She was coordinator of field education and clinical assistant professor at Missouri State University for seven years with one year serving as MSW program coordinator. Currently, she is BSW program director and associate professor of social work at Evangel University, where she has been on faculty for nearly eight years and served as Coordinator of Field Education. Street has taught a variety of social work courses including social work theory; practice with individuals, families, and groups; social policy; research; and practicum.
About Jayhawk Global Online Programs
The DSW program is a fully online program supported through Jayhawk Global. Online students receive the same recognizable degree just in a more flexible, convenient delivery method. The School of Social Welfare and its faculty are still the owners, developers, and implementers of the curriculum. By partnering with Jayhawk Global, the School of Social Welfare receives the added benefit of instructional design support through Jayhawk Global’s experts at its Center for Online and Distance Learning. These experts utilize the nationally recognized Quality Matters Rubric to build user-friendly course design and navigation. Jayhawk Global strives to ensure academic units are able to provide a robust, engaging and supportive learning environment and experience for each and every student. Through Jayhawk Global, KU plans to offer many more online degree opportunities giving students the chance to earn a globally recognized degree from anywhere in the world.