社会福利学院为希望加深和扩展其知识和经验以实现社会变革的个人提供学习环境。该学院为培养致力于，分析和知识渊博的学生提供了一个地方，他们希望通过关注体制结构来承担改善服务提供系统的艰巨任务。我们的使命宣言为课程和课程计划提供了重点和指南针。使这个使命陈述变得生动活泼（尽管是不完整和不完美的）是一项挑战和奋斗，这使学校成为一个令人兴奋的地方。它使教职员工和学生都感到振奋，他们知道我们正在维护和发扬建立社会基础改革哲学，而这一理念对职业社会工作的未来至关重要。我们寻求帮助学生建立自己的个人和社会责任感，认真对待
The School of Social Welfare provides a learning environment for individuals who wish to deepen and extend their knowledge and experience in bringing about social change. The School provides a place for the development of committed, analytical, and knowledgeable students who wish to undertake the difficult task of improving service delivery systems by attention to institutional structures. Our mission statement provides a focus and compass for curriculum and program planning. It is the challenge and struggle to make this mission statement come alivealbeit incomplete and imperfectlythat makes the school an exciting place. It invigorates both faculty and students knowing that we are preserving and carrying forward the social reform philosophy upon which professional social work was founded, and which is vital to its future. We seek to help students build upon their sense of personal and social responsibility, taking the perspective of others seriously, grounding their actions in ethical considerations, and encouraging their ability to contribute to society. We understand that to achieve these goals, we must create academic initiatives that engage our students and foster their understanding of the inherently complex issues of structural reform. We therefore prepare social work students to intervene directly with individuals and families, as well as with larger systems. Practice is undertaken from a strengths perspective and model of empowerment, development, and enhancement, rather than from that of deficit models.