Many of the criticisms of Stoesz and Karger contained within their article titled “Reinventing Social Work Education” and focused against the Council on Social Work Education (CSWE) are misdirected. The CSWE accreditation mandate does not extend to the publishing records (or lack thereof) of social work faculty or deans, to the GRE scores of social work students, nor to the citation patterns of social work journals in general. There certainly are some problems with the current CSWE accreditation process and policies, and several concrete suggestions are given to incrementally strengthen social work education.
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