School of Social Work - The University of Iowa

The University of Iowa School of Social Work implemented a three-year, part-time program in Sioux City, Iowa in the fall of 1999. This part-time program was created to help meet the shortage of professional master level social workers in the western part of the State of Iowa. The implementation of this program occurred after several years of planning by a committee of professionals and educators in the Sioux City region in cooperation with the University of Iowa School of Social Work.

The Sioux City part-time program is administered by the School of Social Work, in cooperation with the Division of Continuing Education, Center for Credit Programs, which is charged by the University to support off-campus programs. The School has governance over curriculum, personnel, policies and procedures. The Director of the School of Social Work is the executive officer of the program, and has the administrative assistance of the Sioux City part-time program director, a clinical instructor based in Sioux City and administrative staff based in Iowa City and Des Moines. Courses are by tenure track, clinical, visiting and adjunct faculty on site in Sioux City and by fiber-optic transmission (Iowa Communications Network, ICN In addition, the personnel and facilities of the Tri-State Graduate Center is available to the School to help support the program.