UAlbany School of Social Welfare's Dr. Mary McCarthy spent 5 weeks in the fall of 2019 in Indonesia. During that time she worked at Padjadjaran University in Bandung through the Fulbright Specialist Program. Dr. McCarthy speaks about the value of partnerships like the one between UAlbany SSW and Padjadjaran, the benefits of students from Indonesia studying at UAlbany and bringing a different cultural perspective to the classroom, and the development of the social work profession in Indonesia.
Mary L. McCarthy, Ph.D., LMSW is a faculty member at the University at Albany School of Social Welfare. She is the Co-PI for the National Child Welfare Workforce Institute, Funded by the Children’s Bureau and Director of the Social Work Education Consortium, a partnership between the NYS Association of Deans of Schools of Social Work, NYS Office of Children and Family Services, and Commissioners of local Departments of Social Services in NYS. Dr. McCarthy worked in the child welfare field for 11 years both before and after receiving her MSW from the University at Albany in 1982. She was invited to work at Padjadjaran University in Bandung Indonesia in the fall of 2019 through the Fulbright Specialist Program.