Since the focus of this issue of Update is the history of BPD, it makes sense to share some Internet resources related to the history of social work education. The first place to look is the BPD Web site, where there is a brief description of BPD’s history: http://www.bpdonline.org/dnav/5/page.htm.  The BPD Web site also contains an article on its own history http://www.bpdonline.org/site/indexer/42/content.htm as the oldest Web site for social work education, one of BPD’s many “firsts” in social work education. Another BPD first is BEAP, the Baccalaureate Education Assessment Project, which was begun in 1999 (http://www.rit.edu/~beap/).

A list of all past BPD conferences is also available on the BPD Web page: http://www.bpdonline.org/site/indexer/45/content.htm, as is a history of the Ron Federico Memorial Lecture series: http://www.bpdonline.org/site/indexer/47/content.htm.

There are two general sources of information about the history of social work education on CSWE’s Web site and one on child welfare and social work education on the University of Minnesota’s Web site:

Child Welfare and Social Work Education: http://www.d.umn.edu/sw/cw/history.htm

CSWE History Publications: http://www.cswe.org/publications/history.htm

History of Ethics in Social Work Education: http://www.cswe.org/publications/excerpts/EthicsEducationInSocialWork_Intro.htm

A number of social work programs have published their own programmatic histories online, including the following:

Arizona State University: http://ssw.asu.edu/students/mswhandbook/SchoolHistory.pdf

Arkansas State University: http://conhp.astate.edu/socialwork/history.html

Augsburg College: http://www.augsburg.edu/home/swk/bsw/swkhistory.html

Barry University: http://www.barry.edu/socialwork/aboutSW/history.htm

Boston University: http://www.bu.edu/bulletins/ssw/item02.html

Bryn Mawr: http://www.brynmawr.edu/socialwork/mission.shtml, http://www.brynmawr.edu/socialwork/studenthandbook/history.shtml

California State University, Fresno: http://www.csufresno.edu/socwork/department/aboutus/history.htm

Case Western Reserve University: http://conhp.astate.edu/socialwork/history.html

Howard University: http://www.howard.edu/schoolsocialwork/SW/about.htm

Indiana University: http://socialwork.iu.edu/snav/119/page.htm

Indiana University Northwest: http://www.iun.edu/~socialwk/

Niagara University: http://www.niagara.edu/socialwork/History.htm

North Carolina Central University: http://www.nccu.edu/artsci/socwork/

North Carolina Agricultural and Cultural State University: http://www.ncat.edu/~sociolog/intro.htm

Skidmore: http://www.skidmore.edu/academics/sociology/policies/dept_history.html

Southwestern Oklahoma State University: http://www.swosu.edu/socialwork/history.asp

Syracuse University: http://hshp.syr.edu/schools/social/about.asp

Texas Tech University: http://www.depts.ttu.edu/socialwork/

University of Alabama: http://socialwork.ua.edu/about/history.html

University of Arkansas: http://www.ualr.edu/~bsw/career_opportunities_and_history.htm

University of Illinois: http://web.library.uiuc.edu/ahx/uaccard/adminhist/showrg.asp?rg=19

University of Kentucky: http://www.uky.edu/SocialWork/prospective/history.htm

University of Louisville: http://www.louisville.edu/kent/history.html

University of Missouri, Columbia: http://ssw.missouri.edu/history.shtml

University of New York at Buffalo: http://www.socialwork.buffalo.edu/about/history.htm

University of North Dakota: http://learn.aero.und.edu/pages.asp?PageID=63443

University of Oklahoma: http://www.ou.edu/socialwork

University of Pittsburgh: http://www.pitt.edu/~pittssw/academics/msw/overview.html

University of South Carolina: http://cosw.sc.edu/dean/history.html

University of Texas at Austin: http://www.utexas.edu/ssw/about/history/

Valdosta State University: http://www.valdosta.edu/sowk/HistoryandPictures.html

Western Connecticut State University: http://www.wcsu.edu/sw/overview-history.html

Western Michigan University:

Undergraduate: http://www.wmich.edu/hhs/socialwork/undergraduate/history.html

            Graduate: http://www.wmich.edu/hhs/socialwork/graduate/history.html

If your program has a “history” site that I have missed, please forward the URL to me and I will add it to the online version of this publication.