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Patrick Dunne, APR, has joined CSWE as the vice president of communications and marketing. Dunne brings 15 years of communications, public relations, and association marketing experience to CSWE.

Find highlights from the Council on Social Work Education’s many events, initiatives and achievements in the 2018–2019 Annual Report, available here. Throughout CSWE’s year, a community of social work educators volunteered their time and energy to advance the profession through the board of directors, six commissions or 11 councils, various committees, and task forces.

The Oxford University Press will publish an Encyclopedia of Macro Social Work this year and has extended until February 14, 2020, its call for new topics to be considered for inclusion. Articles written for the Encyclopedia of Macro Social Work should be directly focused on macro social work, defined broadly to include macro practice methods as well as macro theories, concepts, ideologies, problems, and contexts relating to macro social work.

Danielle E. Parrish, PhD, has been named editor-in-chief of the Journal of Social Work Education (JSWE). She takes over from Dr. Joanne Yaffe, whose term ended in December 2019. Parrish will serve a 3-year term, 2020–2022, during which time she also will head the JSWE Editorial Advisory Board and serve as an ex-officio member of the CSWE Council on Publications.

CSWE has been awarded nearly $500,000 from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration to expand substance use disorder practitioner education in social work. Read more here.