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Interested in Joining a SSW Committee? 

Joining a SSW committee as a Student Representative will allow you to collaborate with faculty and staff in meaningful discussions that significantly impact our school’s programming, policies, and procedures. Student Representatives serve as liaisons between the student body, SSW student organizations, and their respective SSW committee(s).

At the start of the Fall and Winter terms, the SSW will send an email to the school calling for applications to fill any open seats on the committees below. If you have any questions or concerns please reach out to the Office of Student Services and Enrollment Management at ssw.msw.info@umich.edu.

Curriculum Committee 

The Curriculum Committee initiates curricular review, evaluation, and renewal. The Committee also submits proposals for changing the curriculum to the Governing Faculty for approval and provides consultation to the Associate Dean for Educational Programs on other curricular matters. 

The Graduation Committee 

The Graduation Committee is responsible for assisting in planning and conducting all activities related to Commencement ceremonies consistent with the mission and values of the School of Social Work. The work of the Graduation Committee will be carried out with active representation and input from faculty, staff and student members.

Recruitment, Admissions, Student Services, and Financial Aid Committee 

RASSFA is responsible for reviewing and assessing policies governing recruitment, admissions, and financial aid, and recommending changes in these policies to the Governing Faculty. RASSFA assists the Office of Student Services and Enrollment Management as requested in processing and evaluating applications for admission and financial aid and in designing and implementing recruitment strategies. RASSFA is also responsible for advising and consulting with the Dean, the Associate Dean for Educational Programs and the Office of Student Services and Enrollment Management on any student services-related matters.

PRAXIS Committee 

The Promoting Axction for Intersectional Social Justice (PRAXIS) committee seeks to act for justice by articulating definitions of social justice in micro, mezzo and macro contexts, to develop/recommend goals for the School of Social Work (SSW) that are consistent with these definitions and to plan actions to move towards these goals. PRAXIS will further justice and prevent and ameliorate injustice by identifying and applying emerging knowledge related to relevant justice goals and developing strategies that illuminate and alter/eliminate assumptions and practices that contribute to different mechanisms of oppression. PRAXIS will use intersectionality frameworks, recognizing that systems of oppression and privilege interact producing different conditions in different contexts for those with different interacting positionalities (e.g. race, ethnicity, sexual orientation, gender and gender expression, socioeconomic class, religion, dis/ability status, age, and others). PRAXIS will conduct regular reviews of key aspects of the SSW, will identify key social justice priorities from year to year, and will recommend ways for the SSW to achieve these goals and assess progress over time.