Alumni Perspectives
 

Nocona Pewewardy - Ph.D.('03)

The doctoral program impacted me in a positive way by providing a vehicle to explore critical approaches to social work education and develop a lexicon to communicate about complex interactions between and among diverse groups of people with common human needs.

KyungMee Kim - Ph.D. ('03)

The program led me to think that research can be a type of social action. It taught me that researchers should espouse social work value commitments and engagement with people in the research process.

Mitsuko Nakashima - Ph.D. ('02)

I think the KU School of Social Welfare has an excellent doctoral program. KU definitely has very rigorous requirements and prepares students well for the doctoral dissertation and post-doctoral work. Each student can customize a unique comprehensive exam process according to his/her interests. I find that my six years at KU enabled me to build a strong foundation of scholarship to help me pursue my career at University of Maryland at Baltimore.