Category Archives: SWEEP

SWEEP: Vietnamese faculty visit SJSU for 3+ weeks in March

The Social Work Education Enhancement Program started its Faculty Fellows Academy at San José State University on March 3. During the three and a half week visit, the eight faculty members from SWEEP’s partner universities in Vietnam will be working closely with faculty from the College of Applied Sciences and Arts School of Social Work as well as others on and off campus. Seminars, lectures and workshops will focus on areas of faculty development including: research and scholarship, teaching, curriculum development, collaboration and global leadership skills, and the use of cutting edge technology.

SWEEP is funded by USAID and an an in-kind match by Cisco Systems, Inc.

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The Social Work Education Enhancement Project is hosting eight faculty members from Vietnam in March.

SWEEP: Ho Chi Minh City summit a success

San José State University’s Social Work Education Enhancement Program Director Alice Hines opened a two-day summit in Ho Chi Minh City on Dec. 9. The summit, “Bridging Vision to Practice Through Collaboration,” included meetings on Dec. 9 and 10 at Vietnam National University’s University of Social Sciences and Humanities.

The meetings included administrators from the eight partner universities as well as SWEEP IT staff who make the long-distance program work with WebEx technology from Cisco USA.

San José State University’s College of Applied Sciences and Arts is host to the Social Work Education Enhancement Program, an initiative that is working to:

  • Develop systems to strengthen higher education management and administration,
  • Devise processes to enhance faculty development opportunities and programs
  • Develop and employ relevant curriculum adaptable to Viet Nam’s changing knowledge and needs.

The program is a partnership with USAID and Cisco Systems.

 

 

SWEEP: Team visits Vinh University

 

This week members of the San José State University Social Work Education Enhancement Program team visited Vinh Univeristy, south of Hanoi in Vietnam. The team, including College of Applied Sciences and Arts Associate Dean Alice Hines who is the director of the SWEEP program, met with university leaders, faculty and students at Vinh University. Ed Cohen, a co-director of SWEEP, and Laurie Drabble, a team member, were also present to outline a memorandum of understanding between the College of Applied Sciences and Arts at SJSU and Vinh University. While in Vinh City, the group met with the rector and staff at a mental health facility. They discussed similarities and differences in mental health treatment services in Vietnam and the United States.

 

SWEEP: SJSU partners attend conference in Vietnam

 

The San José State University Social Work Education Enhancement Program team was invited to attend a conference at the Vietnamese Academy of Social Sciences in Hanoi on “Vietnam-US Partnership: Issues and Prospects.” Sweep Director Alice Hines discussed the SWEEP project and ways in which the strategic partnerships with Vietnamese universities, government ministries, USAID and Cisco Systems Inc. are contributing to the development of social work in Vietnam. Hines is pictured third from the right, with SWEEP co-director Ed Cohen and SJSU Professor Laurie Drabble. The three will be attending conference meetings in Hanoi this week.

San José State University’s College of Applied Sciences and Arts is host to the Social Work Education Enhancement Program, an initiative that is working to:

  • Develop systems to strengthen higher education management and administration,
  • Devise processes to enhance faculty development opportunities and programs
  • Develop and employ relevant curriculum adaptable to Viet Nam’s changing knowledge and needs.

SWEEP is funded through the US Agency for International Development with a three-year grant. Visitors from Viet Nam spent a week at SJSU in September, with a group of fellows expected to stay for a month in the spring. Members of the SJSU SWEEP team will also be traveling to Viet Nam in December for an annual conference.

SWEEP: SJSU, CISCO and USAID show committement to social work project

San José State University’s College of Applied Sciences and Arts Dean Charles C. Bullock and Associate Dean Alice Hines both participated in the signing of a memorandum of understanding, though they were in different countries and time zones.

Dean Bullock was present at the signing of the agreement in Hanoi between San José State University, the U.S. Agency for International Development and Cisco Systems that outlined the ways in which the partners will work together to meet the objectives of the Social Work Education Enhancement Program. The SWEEP project is funded with a grant from USAID that allows SJSU to work with eight Vietnamese university partners to enhance social work education at the universities to produce job-ready social workers for Viet Nam.

The signing ceremony took place Nov. 13, at 9 a.m. in Hanoi, with participants present via telepresence from San Jose, Charlotte, North Carolina (where Cisco is headquartered) and Ho Chi Minh City. SJSU Mohammad Qayoumi and USAID Mission Director Joakim Parker both signed the MOU that had earlier been signed by CISCO in the United States. Administrators from the partner universities participated in person in Hanoi and via telepresence from Ho Chi Minh City. Hines joined in from the Cisco offices in San Jose, where it was 6 p.m. on Nov. 12.

Hines called it “an excellent illustration of how technology can be instrumental in bringing people together across cultural (and temporal) boundaries.”

 

View more photos at the USAID flickr (http://www.flickr.com/photos/usaid_vietnam/sets/72157637622002363/)page.