{"id":36627,"date":"2018-05-29T15:36:55","date_gmt":"2018-05-29T19:36:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bu.edu\/?p=36627"},"modified":"2020-01-08T12:01:08","modified_gmt":"2020-01-08T17:01:08","slug":"dean-hosts-culture-exchange-with-social-work-educators-from-chinas-henan-normal-university","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ssw\/dean-hosts-culture-exchange-with-social-work-educators-from-chinas-henan-normal-university\/","title":{"rendered":"Dean Hosts Culture Exchange with Social Work Educators from China\u2019s Henan Normal University"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_36629\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-36629\" style=\"width: 660px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/ssw\/files\/2018\/05\/IMG_8869-650x471.jpg\" alt=\"BUSSW Dean Jorge Delva (4th from Left) and Associate Dean for Enrollment Services and External Relations Ken Schulman (5th from Left) welcomed visitors from China's Henan Normal University (HNU) to discuss and lend guidance to HNU's new MSW program.\" width=\"650\" height=\"471\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-36629 aligncenter\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ssw\/files\/2018\/05\/IMG_8869-650x471.jpg 650w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ssw\/files\/2018\/05\/IMG_8869-768x556.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ssw\/files\/2018\/05\/IMG_8869-1024x742.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 650px) 100vw, 650px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-36629\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">BUSSW Dean Jorge Delva (fourth from Left) and Associate Dean for Enrollment Services and External Relations Ken Schulman (fifth from Left) welcomed visitors from China&#8217;s Henan Normal University (HNU) to discuss and lend guidance to HNU&#8217;s new MSW program.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><em>May 29, 2018<\/em> &#8212; Four visitors from China\u2019s Henan Normal University (HNU) arrived in Boston Tuesday morning to meet with Dean Jorge Delva and other top administrators from Boston University\u2019s School of Social Work (BUSSW) to discuss BU\u2019s model of professional social work training. <\/span><\/p>\n<p>The four visitors, who are pioneering the Chinese province of Henan&#8217;s first and only Masters of Social Work (MSW) program, reached out to BUSSW for guidance as they navigate the demands of providing a graduate social work education to HNU students.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">While HNU established its Social Work Department fifteen years ago, the recent push for practice-focused professional education led the school to supplement its Bachelor of Laws offering with an MSW beginning this year.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In addition to Delva, Associate Dean for Enrollment Services and External Relations Ken Schulman and Assistant Dean for Off-Campus and Online Programs Mena daSilva-Clark also took part in the dialogue between BUSSW and HNU, lending important insights about the initiatives that make BU\u2019s stellar social work programs flourish.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; May 29, 2018 &#8212; Four visitors from China\u2019s Henan Normal University (HNU) arrived in Boston Tuesday morning to meet with Dean Jorge Delva and other top administrators from Boston University\u2019s School of Social Work (BUSSW) to discuss BU\u2019s model of professional social work training. The four visitors, who are pioneering the Chinese province of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14769,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7435,4057],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ssw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36627"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ssw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ssw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ssw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14769"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ssw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36627"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ssw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36627\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":38941,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ssw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36627\/revisions\/38941"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ssw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36627"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ssw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36627"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bu.edu\/ssw\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36627"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}