Celebrating 60 Years of Social Work

Celebrating legacy of scholar who equipped generations of social justice leaders with the ideas, tools and courage to spur change

After leading a lifetime of international development work, including leading a U.N. Agency, Jaques found a home for his passionate approach to collaborative development in the Faculty of Social Work, raising its global profile and shaping its unique master's in International and Community Development

First Canadian IFSW president had a vision of an “exquisitely connected” world in which “each of us is a vital thread in another person’s tapestry; our lives are woven together for a reason.”

UCalgary Social Work professor championed the inclusion of Indigenous Ways of Knowing into Alberta post-secondary education. Her landmark book, Blackfoot Ways of Knowing: The Worldview of the Siksikaitsitapi, is still used as a foundational text

Seniors' champion had a lifelong passion for working with older Calgarians that led to the centre's creation and a scholarship to support like-minded students with a passion for working with seniors and gerontology

The Faculty of Social Work is celebrating 60 years of innovation and impact through the 60 Faces of Social Work series, which looks back at the faculty’s history through the people that have shaped it, starting with the faculty’s first dean, who set the new school's groundbreaking trajectory in 1966