Kan. Admin. Regs. § 102-2-6 - Program approval
(a) Definitions. The following terms shall be
defined as follows:
(1) "Core faculty member" means
an individual who is part of the program's teaching staff and who meets the
following conditions:
(A) Is an individual whose
education, training, and experience are consistent with the individual's role within
the program and are consistent with the published description of the goals,
philosophy, and educational purpose of the program;
(B) is an individual whose primary professional
employment is at the institution in which the program is housed; and
(C) is an individual who is identified with the
program and is centrally involved in program development, decision making, and
student training as demonstrated by consistent inclusion of the individual's name in
public and departmental documents.
(2) "In residence," when used to describe a
student, means that the student is completing coursework during which the student
and one or more core faculty members are in face-to-face contact either in person or
by synchronous, real-time videoconferencing.
(3) "Primary professional employment" means a
minimum of 20 hours per week of instruction, research, any other service to the
institution in the course of employment, and the related administrative
work.
(b) To be recognized and
approved by the board, an undergraduate or graduate social work program shall be
accredited by the council on social work education or shall be in substantial
compliance with all of the following standards:
(1)
The program shall have a curriculum plan that has been or will be fully implemented
during the current academic year.
(2)
The program shall have graduated a class of students or shall graduate a class of
students during the current academic year.
(3) The social work program shall meet the
following conditions:
(A) Have autonomy with
respect to an identified budget and an established governance and administrative
structure;
(B) have responsibility for
participation in personnel recruitment, retention, promotion, and tenure
decisions;
(C) have support staff
assigned to the program; and
(D) have
other necessary resources and authority required for the achievement of specified
program objectives.
(4) The
program shall have a field education program that is clearly incorporated as an
integral component of the curriculum and the social work degree requirements. The
field education program shall engage the student in supervised social work practice
and experiential opportunities that apply classroom learning in the field
setting.
(5) The program shall have a
clear plan for the organization, implementation, and evaluation of the class and
field curricula.
(6) The program shall
have social work faculty advisors who are sufficiently knowledgeable about the
social work program and who are available to advise social work students.
(7) The program's written policies shall make
explicit the criteria for evaluation of student academic and field
performance.
(8) The program's written
policies shall include procedures for the termination of student participation in
the professional social work degree program, and each student shall be informed of
these termination procedures.
(9) The
social work program shall be contained within a college or university that is
regionally accredited.
(10) No less than
50% of the required program course-work shall be completed "in residence" at one
institution, and the field education program shall be completed at the same
institution.
(c) In addition
to the standards in subsection (b) of this regulation, each undergraduate social
work program that is not accredited by the council on social work education shall
meet all of the following standards:
(1) The
program shall specify in the university or college course catalog that its primary
educational objective is preparation for beginning professional social work
practice.
(2) The program coursework
shall be identified and described in the course catalog of the university or
college.
(3) The program shall have a
designated director whose educational credentials include either a baccalaureate or
a graduate degree in social work and who holds a fulltime appointment in the
educational institution.
(4) Each
program faculty member who teaches the content on social work practice and each
program faculty member who coordinates the field education program shall fulfill
these requirements:
(A) Hold a graduate degree in
social work; and
(B) have had two or
more years of professional social work practice experience.
(5) The core faculty shall be responsible for
essential program functions, including the following duties:
(A) Regular design, modification, approval,
implementation, and evaluation of the program curriculum and educational
policies;
(B) systematic and continual
evaluation of program results in view of the specified objectives of the
program;
(C) teaching of social work
practice courses and other social work courses;
(D) coordination of field education program
experiences and provision of instruction for the field education program;
and
(E) establishment and maintenance of
program integrity and attainment of program visibility.
(6) The program director shall have primary
responsibility for the coordination and educational leadership of the program and
shall be provided with the time and financial resources needed to fulfill those
responsibilities.
(7) The program shall
have a minimum of two fulltime, core faculty members whose primary assignment is to
the program.
(8) The field education
program provided as part of the program shall consist of a minimum of 400
clock-hours successfully completed in the field setting. Except as provided by
paragraph (b)(3)(B)(ii) of K.A.R. 102-2-2a, each student participating in the field
education program shall be directly supervised by an individual either licensed or
academically eligible for licensure in social work in the jurisdiction in which the
supervised field education program is completed.
(d) In addition to the standards of subsection (b)
of this regulation, each graduate social work education program that is not
accredited by the council on social work education shall meet all of the following
standards:
(1) The program shall be an integral
part of an educational institution that is institutionally accredited to award the
master's or doctoral degree in social work.
(2) The program shall specify in the university or
college course catalog that it prepares graduate students for advanced social work
practice.
(3) The educational level for
which accreditation has been received shall be specified in any program documents
referring to accreditation.
(4) The
program shall have a full-time dean or director as its chief executive
officer.
(5) The graduate program shall
offer, as its basic program design, two full-time academic years of professional
education that leads to a graduate degree in social work. A minimum of one academic
year of the program shall be in full-time status, as defined by the educational
institution.
(6) Each program faculty
member who teaches the content on social work practice and each program faculty
member who coordinates the field education program shall fulfill these requirements:
(A) Hold a master's degree in social
work;
(B) have had post-master's
professional social work practice experience; and
(C) be qualified for licensure to practice social
work in the state of Kansas.
(7) The program faculty shall have responsibility
for curriculum design, modification, approval, and implementation and for
systematic, continual evaluation of the program.
(8) The faculty shall be responsible for
educational policy in matters of admission, advising, retention, and graduation of
students.
(9) The faculty shall be
responsible for continual and systematic guidance of students through the
professional educational program.
(e) Upon request of the board, each school shall
present documentation to the board that it has satisfactorily met the standards of
subsection (b) and the standards of either subsection (c) or (d), as
applicable.
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