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EAST TENNESSEE STATE UNIVERSITY
DEPARTMENT OF SOCIAL WORK
ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE REVIEW
Guidelines for Retention and Termination
Adopted by Social Work Department, 11/3/04
Final Revision: November, 2006
Social work education serves the function of assuring that competent persons enter the social work profession, and ETSU’s Department of Social Work is committed to ensuring that students from our program are well-suited for the professional demands, roles, and responsibilities of social workers. Consequently, at times social work faculty may find it necessary to assess or reassess a student’s motivation and/or suitability for a career in social work, and thus for continuation in the program. To fulfill this obligation, the social work faculty has defined herein the policies and procedures that govern how issues of student continuation in and termination from the BSW Program are handled when a concern is raised about a student’s performance.
Given the nature and scope of professional social work practice, academic performance standards, as defined in the program’s Academic Performance Standards for Admission, Retention, and Graduation, are comprehensive. Students are introduced to these standards when they first interface with the program and their student file is established. At that time, they are provided with a copy of the “Student Code of Conduct” that they signed, as well as the Academic Performance Standards.
Below is an illustrative but not exhaustive list of problems that might result in an Academic Performance Review, based on the program’s Academic Performance Standards.
Students are seen as violating the BSW Program’s Academic Performance Standards and might be subject to performance review when they
□ fail to demonstrate professional integrity in meeting the objectives of the social work program and in fulfilling all program requirements.
□ perform at levels of C- and below in course and/or field work
□ breach the
DEPARTMENT OF SOCIAL WORK
ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE REVIEW
Guidelines for Retention and Termination
Adopted by Social Work Department, 11/3/04
Final Revision: November, 2006
Social work education serves the function of assuring that competent persons enter the social work profession, and ETSU’s Department of Social Work is committed to ensuring that students from our program are well-suited for the professional demands, roles, and responsibilities of social workers. Consequently, at times social work faculty may find it necessary to assess or reassess a student’s motivation and/or suitability for a career in social work, and thus for continuation in the program. To fulfill this obligation, the social work faculty has defined herein the policies and procedures that govern how issues of student continuation in and termination from the BSW Program are handled when a concern is raised about a student’s performance.
Given the nature and scope of professional social work practice, academic performance standards, as defined in the program’s Academic Performance Standards for Admission, Retention, and Graduation, are comprehensive. Students are introduced to these standards when they first interface with the program and their student file is established. At that time, they are provided with a copy of the “Student Code of Conduct” that they signed, as well as the Academic Performance Standards.
Below is an illustrative but not exhaustive list of problems that might result in an Academic Performance Review, based on the program’s Academic Performance Standards.
Students are seen as violating the BSW Program’s Academic Performance Standards and might be subject to performance review when they
□ fail to demonstrate professional integrity in meeting the objectives of the social work program and in fulfilling all program requirements.
□ perform at levels of C- and below in course and/or field work
□ breach the