BPD Listservs

The Association of Baccalaureate Social Work Program Directors, Inc. (BPD) maintains a listserv with over a thousand participants.  The listserv includes BSW directors, faculty, administrators, publishers, researchers, doctoral students, and many others.  Membership is open to anyone interested in promoting quality BSW education.  BPD membership is not required.

The mission of the listserv is to promote the mission of the organization and to help facilitate quality social work education through mutual consultation, sharing resources and the discussion of ideas.

BPD also hosts additional listservs: One for professors of color that is managed by Dr. Renee Daniel, another on gerontological social work, and a third on spirituality.  For more information email Dr. Bob Vernon.

Joining the BPD Listserv 
While the listserv is open, enrollment is managed by Dr. Bob Vernon at the Indiana University School of Social Work. 

You must email him directly at rvernon@iupui.edu in order to join. 

This usually doesn’t take more than a day or so.  All conditions and rules under enforcement from Indiana University must be obeyed.

• Once enrolled, you will receive an automatic machine notification.
• If you want your email from the list suspended for a prolonged period of time (more than three weeks) email Bob and he will temporarily disable your account.  You must re-email him to reactivate it.

Rules for posting to the list
The list is not moderated or edited, and members are free to circulate and discuss any issue related to social work education with the following provisos: 

• Libelous remarks towards a specific person, program, institution, diverse group, or population at risk will not be tolerated. 
• The list may be used to circulate information about programs except for reaffirmation announcements.  Programs that receive first-time accreditation may announce this once to the list.  (And receive our congratulations!) 
• Academic positions for social work programs or direct line administrators for them may be posted to the list once only per position.  (e.g. a regular faculty position or a department chair for a combined program may be posted, either in full or as an attachment.)
• Authors of new materials and media relevant for social work education may post announcements for these products or services once.  In fact, we WANT you to do this, so don't feel bashful! 
  This includes books, but please do not post journal articles.

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  Violation of any of these rules may result in temporary or permanent removal from the list.

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To Post to the List
The email address to use is BPD-L@iupui.edu. University technical support people often make changes in email addresses without your being aware of them.  This usually happens over breaks, summers, or when traffic is light.  As a result, you may be able to read postings but not be able to post.  If you encounter this kind of problem email Bob Vernon.   

Copyright Ownership
All postings to the BPD Listserv become the property of the Association of Baccalaureate Social Work Program Directors, Inc., and may be used in whole or in part to further the mission of the organization.  For example, people often post information about instructional resources.  A voluntary manager for the BPD website may take these postings and organize them into a resource page within the BPD website.  The purpose of this is to capture the practice wisdom and other resources the list generates. 

Authority notice
The list is technically owned by Dr. Robert Vernon as representative of the Indiana University School of Social Work, the host institution.
Contents and the right to monitor them are extended to the Association of Baccalaureate Social Work Program Directors, Inc.  Ultimate responsibility for this website is vested in the Executive Committee of the Board of Directors of the Associaiton of Baccalaureate Social Work Directors, Inc., or their designates.

Research use
Use of the list as data:
     Colleagues conducting research concerning social work education are permitted to use the contents of the list towards academic purposes provided their efforts conform to their institution’s human subjects review/institutional review board processes and policies.  For example, a doctoral student using excerpts from the list as data may do so if she or he has clearance from their own institution.
Use of the list for gatherning data:
     Members may post questions or surveys provided the solicited information directly relates to the advancement of social work education knowledge.  In so doing, members are expected to post summative results available to the listserv. 

List access
Access to the list of subscribers is privately conserved.  Lists of the actual names of subscribers, their e-mail addresses, and/or their log records are not made publicly available and will not be released to any third party without explicit order from a relevant court of law by subpoena.  The list may, however, be used by the Executive Committee of the Board of Directors or their designees to further the mission of the organization.