SWRK Pioneers

We are pioneers of the Social Work program at Trent University Durham, graduating class of 2018.  This year has been challenging for our student body of 15 amazing individuals.  As newly developed critical Social Workers, we have a few concerns based on this year's experience of the program and would like them addressed for next semester, next year, and for future professional Social Workers at Trent University Durham.  We have made a short and reasonable list of requests we would like you to consider.

First: We would like to have consistency regarding faculty.  We all have learned a lot this year thanks to our amazing professors; we have also fostered effective and professional relationships with these amazing people.  We would benefit immensely from having the same professors throughout the rest of our program here.  We also think you would be doing an injustice to future Social Workers if they did not receive the same teachings that we have.

Secondly: We would like you to follow through on having monthly meetings.  We were hoping that you could be here once a month as you agreed to, this way you could discuss major changes to the program with the students who will be impacted by them.

Thirdly: We would like to discuss the course load.  Due to the changes of next semester, we would like to further discuss how many electives we will need, how many will be offered, and if they can offered at a reasonable and accessible time for everyone.