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colleges could provide the staff and facilities to offer a major in
social work. Only the rare college of liberal arts can add a pro-
fessional program like Social Work and maintain it at a level that
would produce well-qualified members of the profession. Such pregrans
are likely to be developed on a makeshift basis using such resources
of buildings and people as are at hand. In this connection let -
quote the opinion of one of the great leaders of your profession,
Edith Abbott, who has said that-#One difficulty we have had to face
in the past is that the colleges and universities usually begin work
in our field by delegating it to a representative of one of the older
social sciences, and a professor of sociology, or economics, or business,
or occasionally government undertakes to tak on to his departmental
offerings a fow courses given by a subordinate appointed to a position
of low academic rank. These courses usually include case work and
another subject or two concerned with what our academic friend is
likely to call social work 'techniques,' and especially a little field
work that will enable him to say that the student is prepared for
salaried position in our field. this is neither the science nor
the art of our profession. It is nothing but an inadequate beginning
and too often serves to cover an artful dodging of the real issue."
Though this statement was intended to describe a situation that existed
in 1928, the resources of colleges are even less able now to support
a
sound program of undergraduate education in social work than they
were then.
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