School Recognition Program 2023-2024

Congratulations, 2024 Indiana University School of Social Work Graduates!

Your years of diligent effort to your academic pursuits have come to a successful end. Today, we award doctoral, master, and undergraduate degrees in Social Work, and bachelor and associate degrees in Labor Studies, along with a number of program certificates to over 700 students across the state of Indiana. On this day, you join the ranks of over 13,000 alumni of the Indiana University School of Social Work who are in the world making a difference in the lives of others.

You have chosen a professional path that focuses on social and economic justice – for all. Walking this path will undoubtedly leave you exhausted at the end of the day but professionally and personally gratified in that you have contributed in some way, little or great, to another person’s well-being. Through your “social work,” human lives will be enriched and our collective world will be made better.

Your commitment to acquiring the knowledge and skills to effectuate change is to be applauded as is the focus and tenacity you have shown to earn your degree. No doubt, you have persevered through many challenges to complete your studies. I, along with all of our faculty and staff, acknowledge and share pride in your success.

Congratulations, again, and best wishes to each of you. Go forth and transform our global world one individual, one family, one small group, one community, and one society at a time!

Jeffry W. Thigpen

Interim Dean

IU School of Social Work