Social Work Administration Responds to Student Calls for Improved Field Hours, Pay Rate During Protest
The Daily Texan • By Joseph Sweeney • April 11, 2023
“Over 100 people with the UT chapter of FED UP — Field Education and Development Undergraduate/Graduate Placements — rallied in front of the Steve Hicks School of Social Work Tuesday morning, continuing calls for pay rate and field hours improvements for social work students.
‘Our work is important; we have to live. And we deserve to be paid for what we do,’ FED UP organizer Beth Wagner said during the protest.
Several organizers, students, Austin locals and Social Work Dean Allan Cole spoke in front of the Social Work School. Cole and administration hosted a community conversation with organizers afterwards.
During the community conversation, Cole said he has no intentions of dissolving the working group between FED UP and social work administration; instead, he wants to create a new working group with a wider array of voices while having more conversations with FED UP organizers.”
