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The panel, hosted by Social Welfare assistant professor Tadeo Weiner Davis, will feature social workers who will share their experiences at the intersection of social work’s commitment to economic justice and the struggles in organized labor. It will award two hours of continuing education credit.
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Student Stories: KU Social Work
Carl Willey, a Master of Social Work student at the University of Kansas School of Social Welfare, was taught to treat others with kindness and to look out for people in need. He grew up in a small town in Parsons, Kansas, and wasn’t sure what his professional path was as an early adult.
Research Stories: KU Social Work
KU School of Social Welfare attendees will share their research in over 30 presentations, symposia, roundtable discussions and poster presentations. Their work covers a broad range of research areas, with topics including child welfare, end-of-life caregiving, substance use disorders, climate justice, domestic violence, economic resilience, and more.
Alumni Stories: KU Social Work
Senna Hargett, KU BSW 2023, combines nursing skills with social work education in her work at Kansas City Hospice & Palliative Care.
Community Engagement Stories: KU Social Work
At the School of Social Welfare, Community Care Days offer a welcome pause from the pressures of academics. The series gives students, faculty and staff a chance to recharge and connect with one another through scheduled events.
Giving Stories: KU Social Work
Creating a home base for KU social work students allows them to “see the breadth of things you can do in the social work profession,” said Michelle Carney, dean of the KU School of Social Welfare. Watch a video about the School's new home in Green Hall.
Faculty & Staff Stories: KU Social Work
Berringer, an assistant professor at the KU School of Social Welfare, dedicates her research to exploring the relationships, paradoxes, and tensions inherent to the LGBTQ movement in the United States was sparked in her childhood, going to elementary school in Greenwich Village in New York City. She was interested in the gay liberation movement as it happened around her and, later, in the social movement’s intersections with social work.
School of Social Welfare News
KU professor leads project to document history, preserve KC-based movement to fight for better restaurant pay
Tadeo Weiner Davis, assistant professor of social welfare at the University of Kansas, earned a grant to preserve materials of Stand Up KC, a movement dedicated to earning better pay for fast food and casual restaurant workers, and record oral histories of those involved.
Social Welfare event will explore intersection of social work, labor, economic justice
The panel, hosted by Social Welfare assistant professor Tadeo Weiner Davis, will feature social workers who will share their experiences at the intersection of social work’s commitment to economic justice and the struggles in organized labor. It will award two hours of continuing education credit.
KU Social Welfare faculty, researchers to present at SSWR 2026 conference
KU School of Social Welfare attendees will share their research in over 30 presentations, symposia, roundtable discussions and poster presentations. Their work covers a broad range of research areas, with topics including child welfare, end-of-life caregiving, substance use disorders, climate justice, domestic violence, economic resilience, and more.
KU DSW graduates complete capstone projects
Eight students in the online Doctor of Social Work program defended capstone projects in summer and fall 2025, taking the final step to earn their doctoral degrees in social work. Learn more about the real-world solutions developed by the first cohort of KU DSW graduates.