The Grand Challenges Concept: Campus Strategies for Implementation

Abstract

This paper examines a range of possibilities and offers examples for implementing elements of the Grand Challenges for Social Work Initiative in schools and departments of social work. The intent is to identify how deans, directors, and faculty champions can conceptualize actions and roles that engage students, faculty members, schools, and university systems in grand challenges activities. Because there is no precedent in social work for connecting science, practice, and a universal social agenda such as the grand challenges initiative, these ideas are fledgling and emergent in character rather than prototypic.