New!

NADD Licensing Reform Task Force Website

Resources on Teaching and Learning about the Middle East

NADD Statement on ASWB Data Release

NADD supports Joint Statement on Legislative Efforts to Restrict Education about Racism and American History developed by AAUP and released June 16, 2021.
https://www.aaup.org/news/joint-statement-efforts-restrict-education-about-racism#.YNJGx75Kjb0

Resources on Democracy

NADD Anti-Racism Statement

Anti-Racism Resource Guide

A Message from Martell Teasley to NADD Members

Coronavirus and Field-work Contingency Plans

MSW Policy Statement on the Role of the MSW in Social Work Education

NADD Statement Addressing the Issue of Immigrant Children and Family Separation

National Social Work Voter Mobilization Campaign

Social Work Workforce Study, October 2017 (PDF) (background info on the initiative)

List of NADD members and regional associations contributors to the National Academy of Medicine Consensus Study

Deans Messages on the incident at Charlottesville and the general state of affairs in the Country

Welcome to NADD!

Founded in 1986, the National Association of Deans and Directors of Schools of Social Work (NADD) is a volunteer membership organization dedicated to promoting excellence in social work education. Our membership is composed of more than 200 deans, directors, and chairpersons of graduate social work programs in the United States and Canada. NADD supports its members in their professional development and effectiveness as academic administrators.

NADD organizes two meetings per year: a one-day gathering at the Council on Social Work Education’s Annual Program Meeting and a 2½ day conference in the spring. At these networking meetings, leadership training sessions are offered in areas such as fundraising, research infrastructure, faculty development, and crisis management, and speakers address current issues pertinent to social work education.

NADD members have a Community Forum at CSWE Spark where they can share with each other best practices, discuss program offerings, and coordinate responses to emerging topics in education, research, policy, and practice. NADD is a member of the Leadership Roundtable, which includes designees from the Association of Baccalaureate Social Work Program Directors, Council on Social Work Education, Group for the Advancement of Doctoral Education in Social Work, and the St. Louis Group.

External relations are often initiated and nurtured by NADD’s committees and task forces. For example, NADD’s Gerontological Social Work Task Force contributed to building unique partnerships with the John
A. Hartford Foundation and the New York Academy of Medicine and NADD’s Health Disparities Task Force created partnership with Office of Minority Health. NADD’s other Task Forces focus on Behavioral Health, Child Welfare, International Collaboration, Structure in Education, and Trauma & Disasters.

The Leadership Academy for Deans and Directors (LADD) (a program of NADD) application call for Cohort 15 is now open!

LADD Recruitment Letter Cohort 15 2024-2025 (PDF)

View the list of LADD Cohorts 1 – 10 (PDF)