Students get to know Austin in a whole different way that they might if they didn’t go beyond our school and the UT campus.”Įven students who are not new to the city get a deeper understanding of it, and learn to bridge what they learn in the classroom with what they actually do, as social workers, out on the streets. “It also allows students to connect to a network of people who are already doing the work that they aspire to do in the community. “By being connected with a community agency and doing real work for it, students begin to grasp some of the issues and problems we are struggling with here in Austin,” Streeter explained.
If our students are not going to create anything of value for our community partners, then I don’t want to waste anybody’s time,” Streeter said. “My two questions are, what’s the project, and what’s the deliverable. They get connected to a community agency to develop and implement a project that is of value to everyone.
In these courses, students learn by doing. Cal Streeter encourages students to go beyond campus and to get to know Austin in a different way, through the project-based courses he has been teaching for the past two decades. Restore Rundberg project gives social work students a deeper understanding of social issues in AustinĪs new students descend on the Forty Acres each fall, they are received with all kinds of orientation events and tips to help them find their way around campus and Austin.Īt the School of Social Work, Dr.
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