Social Work Student Activities
Stockton has a Social Work Club, which meets and sponsors a variety of activities throughout the year. Community service projects are popular. For example, Club members have regularly volunteered at Jean Webster's Kitchen, which provides meals for homeless people in Atlantic City.
The Social Work Club also serves the Stockton community. The Lucy Project brought 5 cents worth of social work services to the halls of Stockton.
Phi Alpha Honor Society
The purpose of the Phi Alpha Honor Society is to provide a closer bond among student of social work and promote humanitarian goals and ideals. Phi Alpha offers membership to those social work students who have attained excellence in scholarship. Membership criteria are as follows:
- Declared social work major
- Achieved junior status
- Achieved an overall grade point average of 3.0
- Achieved a grade point average of 3.25 in all required social work courses
Other Opportunities for Students
Students can take advantage of a variety of other opportunities for extra-curricular involvement related to their chosen field of study. For example, in 1999 several students were awarded scholarships to attend the State NASW Contintuing Education Conference.
Social work students at the 1999 NASW-New Jersey State
Conference in Atlantic City, with Patricia A. Nagle, 1999 New Jersey
Social Worker of the Year.
Left to right: Katie Duffy, Joy DiCosimo, Patricia
Nagle, Valerie Warner, and Christine Nalbandian.
Social work students also visit the United Nations in New York City for Social Work Day at the UN.
Several students participated in a Stockton-sponsored
Social Work Study Tour to London and Northern Ireland. Here they
are hiking in the Mountains of Mourne (May 1999).
Left to right: Faith Johnson, Laurie DiGiovanni, Jennifer Carlucci, Tara Mullineaux, Alicia Sterner (Edinboro University of Pennsylvania), and Elizabeth Sher.
Three students in 1998 attended the National Baccalaureate Program Directors' Conference in Albuquerque, New Mexico to deliver a paper on research done through the Social Work Program.
A number of students usually attend the statewide Baccalaureate Educators' Student Conference each year.