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The research challenges readers to rethink the ethical complexities of working during a pandemic and how it is creating positive and negative consequences by using social workers’ perspectives.

Dr. Kim Strom, Director of the Office of Ethics and Policy, along with other researchers from the International Federation of Social Workers, recently published a report titled Ethical Challenges for Social Workers During COVID-19: A Global Perspective.

The Office of Ethics and Policy’s Associate Director Jen DeNeal was recently elected to the Board of Directors for the Association of College and University Policy Administrators (ACUPA).

The purpose of this policy is to encourage individuals to report possible Wrongful Conduct to an appropriate authority so that prompt, corrective action can be taken by the University and to protect reporting individuals from any Retaliation for reporting Wrongful Conduct.

Chancellor Kevin Guskiewicz announced the university’s plan for the fall 2020 semester on May 21. Citing experts’ prediction of a second wave of COVID-19 in late fall or early winter, classes will begin on August 10 and end November 24.