Recruitment of Professional Group Workers: A Survey of Recruitment Methods Used by Four National Agencies From November 1950 to November 1954
Abstract
Today there is little doubt that the field of social work regards the shortage of professionally trained social workers as a serious problem and that the weapon that has been chosen to combat this problem is recruitment. As recently as January, 1955, Fedele F. Fauri, president of the Council on Social Work Education, at the annual program meeting held in Chicago, Illinois recommended that social work schools must step up their "output" of graduates to meet the serious shortages of trained personnel in the field. The significance of this recommendation may be fully appreciated it is recognized that Mr. Fauri, who is dean of the University of Kichigan's School of Social Work, spoke as the president of a Council that was founded in 1951 to be a spokesman for all elements of the social work profession. There are fifty-one accredited schools of social work in this country and their decline in full-time enrollments in recent years has been substantial. Full-time student enrollments dropped from 4,336 in November, 1950 to 3,512 in November of 1954.The pattern is similar for part-time students. There were at least 3,000 vacancies in the country's public assistance and child welfare programs alone, moreover funds for these have been budgeted.? Many vacancies also exist in such fields as adult probation and parole, juvenile courts, mental health and rehabilitation services.
Subject Area
Management|Social studies education|Social work
Recommended Citation
Cheek, Donald Kato, "Recruitment of Professional Group Workers: A Survey of Recruitment Methods Used by Four National Agencies From November 1950 to November 1954" (1955). ETD Collection for Fordham University. AAI31097080.
https://research.library.fordham.edu/dissertations/AAI31097080
