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IV. THE COUNCIL ON SOCIAL WORK EDUCATION AND ACCREDITATION
The Council on Social Work Education (CSWE) is the accrediting body for both BSW and
MSW social work programs in the United States. It sets forth the educational policies and
standards that are intended to advance academic excellence and illustrate the essential
educational content and context that offers professional educational preparation of quality.
Although each program has the leeway to be creative and innovative in designing its program in
response to the unique set of circumstances at its location, the essential educational requirements
articulated by CSWE Education Policy and its eight derivative accreditation standards must be
met in a program’s design, implementation, and evaluation. CSWE outlines the need for
substantial curriculum content in the areas of: values and ethics, diversity, populations-at-risk
and social and economic justice, human behavior and the social environment, social welfare
policy and services, social work practice, research, and field education. The CSWE Educational
Policy and accreditation standards may be found at the Council on Social Work Education Web
site: http://www.cswe.org/. They are contained in the CSWE Handbook on Accreditation, a
document programs follow in their search for initial accreditation and to seek reaffirmation of
accreditation. Guided by these standards, the UW-Green Bay and UW-Oshkosh MSW
Collaborative Program paid careful attention to them for the development of its over-all program
and its curriculum content.
The Collaborative MSW Program was granted candidacy in July 2003 and was initially
accredited in June 2006 through June 2010.
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