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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.

Sweep academy

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

JMC professor featured in CISCO video

John Delacruz, an advertising professor in the College of Applied Sciences and Arts’ School of Journalism and Mass Communications, is featured as one of the faculty members at San Jose State University who is taking advantage of Next Gen classrooms. The video, put together by CISCO, includes interviews with SJSU President Mohammad Qayoumi, former Provost Ellen Junn and other administrators on the benefit of technology on campus. Delacruz’ advertising class is featured throughout the video using telepresence equipment and he is also interviewed about the benefits it brings to his students.

“I’ve always been a great believer in experiential learning,” he said, in the video. “It comes from a design background where we work on real-life projects.”

He said telepresence has allowed him to bring the world into his classroom.

“It enables my students to do work with ad agencies in New York and London without leaving San Jose,” he said.

To watch the video, visit http://vimeo.com/87592144

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.

SWEEP starts year with international visitors

The Social Work Education Enhancement Program started the year off with a week-long visit from five Vietnamese partner universities for the Leadership Academy in September. San Jose Staté University is the lead for the SWEEP project, an international consortium of five Vietnamese universities, two government agencies and private sector partner Cisco Systems, Inc. The program funded by the US Agency for International Development (USAID), aims to strengthen the capacity of Viet Nam’s higher education social work programs to deliver quality education and prepare, job-ready social workers.

The program objectives are 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.

 

From Sept. 22-28, representatives from National University of Vietnam at Hanoi’s University of Social Sciences and Humanities, Hanoi National University of Education, University of Labor and Social Affairs at Hanoi, Hue University and National University of Vietnam at HMC’s University of Social Sciences and Humanities attended the Leadership Academy.

The visitors were welcomed by SJSU President Mohammad Qayoumi and College of Applied Sciences and Arts Dean Charles Bullock, as well as SWEEP directors Alice Hines and Ed Cohen. The guests spent the week in conference meetings at SJSU and visiting some places off campus as well. They attended meetings at Cisco, Vietnamese American Professionals Associations and the County of Santa Clara Mental Health Department. They finished off the visit by watching a Spartan football game at Spartan stadium.

During the three-year grant period, SWEEP will develop and implement undergraduate social work policies and practices, curricula, regional educational centers, technology networks, and faculty development and leadership programs.

The SWEEP team includes:

Alice Hines, College of Applied Sciences and Arts associate dean, principal investigator

Ed Cohen, associate professor of Social Work, co-principal investigator

Soma Sen, associate professor of Social Work, faculty development lead

Meekyung Han, associate professor of Social Work, curriculum development lead

Laurie Drabble, professor of Social Work. management and administration lead

Tuan Tran, SWEEP Viet Nam project coordinator

Hoa Nguyen, SWEEP Viet Nam project assistant

Quyen Grant, SWEEP SJSU project assistant

Patrick Thanh Ngo, Veronica Cavillo, Cindy Nguyen and Diana Nguyen – student assistants