Best program for social workers who are not academically gifted and want to obtain a cheap degree without having to work very hard, especially if they have no plans to do social work and just get a job at Concord. Most courses are almost exactly the same with little to no instruction. Once you take one course, you can just fill out the “forms” for the rest of the courses. For some courses you don’t even have books, no interaction with professors, and for some courses students wonder if there is even... Read More a professor at all. Emphasis is placed on ethics, but most faculty behave unethically, play favorites, and treat students unequally. Favorite students, who most often have less academic ability and less intent to do academic work, are given exceptions and opportunities others are not. Many of these “favorites” are given exceptions on assignments and in their field placements that include less rigor and less requirements. Favorites are often given passing grades for minimal work, and are given paid student jobs in grant offices and other offices like career services on campus that have nothing to do with required competencies in field placements, and are then just pushed through to graduation. Non-favorites are graded harder and are required to work real jobs doing actual social work off campus to obtain competencies. Favorites are often given jobs on campus after graduation including faculty positions in the MSW program. Students will find it to be no surprise that the courses that have little to no instruction and little to no professor interaction are taught by these professors who were once “favorites.”These professors have never taught a course on any level prior to being given a masters level faculty position at Concord, have never worked off campus, and have never actually done any real social work in their lives. This is even true for the Program Director who is also a local who went to Concord, has only worked in grant offices, and has never actually done any social work on a professional level and therefore never obtained required real competencies to be awarded the degree of MSW. Students will also not be surprised to discover that the lame professors in the program mentioned above who were all locals and former “favorites,” were all close friends of the Director that the Director hired over other candidates with years of real world experience in the field and years of teaching experience and expertise. In this way, Concord’s MSW program resembles an unethical internal colony of locals who simply exploit the university and the program for their own personal gain and the gain of their friends and cronies. Students who are willing to do extra non-required work can still obtain a decent education, but most students can just coast through this program doing minimal low quality work with almost no effort, especially if they are local “favorites.” The university is currently on a serious financial precipice and is so desperate for money due to decades of financial exploitation by locals in positions of power that they rarely ever fail a student. Students are viewed as “units” that represent 10s of thousands of dollars in revenue that the local internal profiteers can’t afford to loose. These internal profiteers like the MSW Program Director need every student who applied to pay their outrageously high salaries and maintain their internal colony and profiteering scheme which takes high priority over academic quality and institutional and professional integrity. Complacency is a requirement for faculty, including the very few competent and ethical ones, and those who are not complacent to ethical violations and internal corruption are viewed as not being “team players” and therefore are targeted for harassment and eventual elimination. All of this makes the university and the MSW program a poor choice for those students who want a good education, want to be competent and ethical social workers after graduation, and have no plans on working at Concord in an unethical internal colony of local profiteers.
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