Social Work Students Lobby for Pay in Mandatory Internships
BestColleges • By Matthew Arrojas • May 8, 2023
“College students in social work programs are required to complete hundreds — sometimes thousands — of hours of field placement work to earn a degree.
The reality for most of these students is not only will that work go unpaid, but they have to pay their university for credit for those work hours. BestColleges spoke with social work students who said they often had to balance multiple other work opportunities to skate by. Others accumulate heaps of debt to make ends meet.
A new wave of students, however, is looking to change the status quo.
Payment for Placements (P4P) is a student-led movement with over three dozen university chapters across the U.S. The movement started in late 2021 at the University of Michigan.”
