Legislative Services Discussion
Presented at the
University of Maryland School of Social Work
September 28, 2011
School of Social Work
FY 2011 State Support Revenues
$814,471 state appropriation is down $159 K due to salary reduction
FY 2007 – FY 2011 Actuals (In Millions)
FY 2007 - 2011 Actuals (In Millions)
25,000,000
20,000,000
15,000,000
Restricted
Revolving
DRIF
10,000,000
State
5,000,000
0
FY 2007
FY 2008
FY 2009
FY 2010
FY 2011
Of our $24M+ budget we raise all but $1,000,000 ourselves
UMB GRANTS AND CONTRACTS (FY06 – FY10)
FY06
FY10
Variance
Percent Change
170,048,000
436,092,209
266,044,209
156%
Social Work
6,290,000
15,540,575
9,250,575
147%
Pharmacy
9,273.000
16,062,318
6,789,318
73%
Nursing
5,880,000
11,509,896
5,629,896
96%
Dentistry
8,270,000
12,993,742
4,723,742
57%
Law
2,496,000
4,676,900
2,180,900
87%
Medicine
2nd Fastest Growing School re UMB Grants and Contracts--only steps behind SOM
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Endowment Values
([As of December 31st, 2010] Values in Thousands)
7000
$6,258
6000
5000
$5,482
$4,986
$4,550
$4,268
$4,792
4000
3000
2000
1000
0
2005
2006
2007
2008
2009
2010
Modified Peer Institutions had a mean endowment of $17.9m and all public
SSWs had a mean $3.9m in endowment
Fiscal Section Summary
• Our business model is strong under ordinary and, even,
somewhat stressful circumstances
• We receive relatively little state funding, compared to
other units on campus, and compared to our modified
peer institutions* (which average about $3M a year)
• We have kept our tuition and fees low to attract students
– We cannot add more students in our current building so tuition
dollars can only grow from raising tuition
• Grants have increased overall—current efforts are to
increase grants with higher indirect costs (e.g., NIH funds).
Office of Admissions
Applications and Confirmations
2000-2010
1000
Applied
Confirmed
900
800
700
600
500
400
300
200
100
0
2000
2001
2002
2003
2004
2005
2006
2007
2008
2009
2010
Enrollment (n≈960) by Race / Ethnicity
Total SSW Minority: 39%* (n= 321)
Modified Peer Institutions: (MPI: UNC, U Mich, UI C, U Wash, U Georgia) 28% (n=596)
Note: UMB SSW had 37% minority enrollment in 2009 when the comparison to MPI was made
Faculty Teaching Load & Salary*
• Teaching load is 5.0 courses per year (vs. peer
institutions of 4.5 courses per year)
• Salaries are higher in Peer Universities*
UMB
Peers
Professor
Associate Professor
Assistant Professor
^$114,374
$79,447
$70,398
$144,307
$92,899
$70,831
*Salaries for peer institutions are computed at 9-month rate and have been adjusted
to 10-months to make comparable to UMB;
^UMB SSW Full Professor salaries excludes Dean and 2 professors with
administrative roles
FTE Positions at the SSW (2011)
Total number of
employees: 190
Teaching: 85%+ of Core Faculty Receiving Ratings of 4 or 5 (Very
Good or Excellent) By Students on Summary Course Evaluation
Items
Post MSW Licensing Exam Pass Rates (1
Note: there is no data for peer institutions but the public-state institutions
was 75% in 2009, the same as UM SSW
st
time)
Privately Funded Scholarships
Note: the SSW Goal is to celebrate having 50 Scholarships for our 50th Anniversary
Continuing Professional Education Attendees
Second largest Social Work CPE Program in USA after Rutgers
Number of Child Welfare Academy and
Foster & Adoptive Parent Training Participants
Education and Training Summary
• Social work students are benefiting from a
small but growing number of scholarships
– Our PhD program has been greatly strengthened in
the last 5 years but is too small and in significant
need of more scholarship support
• Nearly 10,000 social workers receive education
or training at UMB SSW each year
– This is among the largest of any SSW in the nation
– Our education and training programs stretch as far
as CA, TX, NV, and India
Public Service
• 400,000+ hours of service from our interns each year
• Community building in West Baltimore (Promise
Heights) and many other Baltimore communities
• Many guest lectures to organizations providing services
to the public
• Leaders of many public and nonprofit organizations are
graduates of the SSW
• SSW faculty and administrators are on many nonprofit
boards and provide substantive expertise as well as
expertise regarding planning and evaluation
• Testimony to the MD General Assembly, United States
Congress, and other states has recently been provided
by our faculty
Entrepreneurship in Social Work
Creating, identifying, organizing, managing,
implementing, and rigorously testing valuable
interventions for use in social work and other
professions.
1. Systematizing social work interventions for
replication
2. Developing new inter-professional interventions
3. Replicating evidence based practices in Baltimore
(Franchising)
4. Research infrastructure building through LINKS to
enhance research capacity
Replicating EBPs in Baltimore
• Public Allies (Public Allies National)
• ReServe (AmeriCorps) Retired Volunteers Program
• KEEP (Oregon Social Learning Center [OSLC])
(Chamberlain [OSLC], (Uretsky, Greeno)
• KITS (Kids in Transition to School) (Pears, OSLC)
(under discussion for use in Promise Heights)
• Traffic Light: Behavioral Family Therapy and
Obesity Reduction (Epstein, SUNY-Buffalo) (under
discussion for use in Promise Heights)
• Strengthening Families Coping Resource Team
(Family Focused Trauma Intervention developed in
SOM, in use at Promise Heights)
LINKs Data Collaborative at the University of Maryland Baltimore
The LINKS data collaborative will be fully compliant with HIPAA, FERPA, and all agency regulations. MOUs/MOAs
will be instituted across all participating agencies regarding shared data.
DHR/SSA
Child Welfare
DHR/FIA
Food Stamps
DHR/FIA
TANF
DHR/CSEA
Child Support
Agency data is loaded onto a secure
machine not connected to the
internet. A Unique ID is assigned to
replace identifying information using
linking data. Only required linking
data is maintained on the secure
machine all other data is removed.
DHMH/MHA
Mental Health
MSDE
Education
1 The
DHMH/MHA
Pharmacy
DHMH/MHA
DDA
LINKs Data Collaborative at the
University of Maryland Baltimore
(de-identified linked data)
Agency data, stripped of personal
identifiers, are linked by the Unique ID
and maintained on a secure data server.
LINKS Research Review Board1: A representative from
each agency in the collaborative with the capacity and
authority to review research proposals and make decisions
related to the merit of the proposal and data usage will
review all proposals involving LINKS. Agencies can decide
not to allow their data to be used for a study.
DJS
Juvenile Services
Data Linking/
Research Proposal
(State Agencies)
Data Linking/
Research Proposal
(University)
LINKS RRB will not replace the University or Agency IRB processes, only add another layer of protection.
Data Linking/
Research Proposal
(External Groups)
Internal Challenges
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Recruitment and retention of superb faculty
Building a national (Top 10) reputation
Space inadequacies
Scarce resources for innovation
Mentoring and retention of junior faculty
o Few senior faculty are research leaders so much
mentoring has to be obtained outside of UMB SSW
• Hiring diverse faculty at all tenure track ranks
• Post-audit demands on staff and faculty to revised
business practices and more centralized approval
processes
External Challenges
• Government Policy
– Inclusion of social work in loan forgiveness programs
– Recognition of social work care management practices as a
health care service
• State Budget
– Budget freezes will eventually hurt the employability of our
graduates
– Salary freezes have created inequities among faculty
• Information Technology
– More support is needed for improving the usage of IT by
faculty & staff
Summary
• We are dynamic and growing
• The quality of our work, faculty, and students are
excellent
– Our space is not nearly as excellent and we need more
• Our infrastructure has been stretched thin
• We have untapped potential to partner with
other units on campus to:
– Interrupt the social epidemiology of disease
– Enhance primary care services research and practice
– Improve teaching, research, and service regarding
behavioral health