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Calvin L. Streeter, Ph.D.Professor and Meadows Foundation Centennial Fellow in the Quality of Life in the Rural Environment |
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Professional Interests
Organization behavior and social administration, disaster preparedness and community response to crisis, school social work and dropout prevention, quality management in human services rural human services, social research and measurement.
Education
- Ph.D., Washington University (St. Louis)
- MSW, Washington University (St. Louis)
- BS, Kearney State College
About
Dr. Streeter is the Meadows Foundation Centennial Professor in the Quality of Life in the Rural Environment and Chair of the Community and Administrative Leadership (CAL) concentration. He is a former Director of the Ph.D. Program in Social Work.
Dr. Streeter was born in Gothenburg, Nebraska, growing-up in a small farming community. Prior to pursuing an academic career, he owned and operated a small business. In 1978 and 1979 he lived in Tokyo Japan, where he managed a student dormitory near the American School in Japan. Dr. Streeter received his Ph.D. and Masters degrees in Social Work from The George Warren Brown School of Social Work at Washington University in St. Louis. Dr. Streeter's social work practice experience has included rural community development, program planning and implementation, and program evaluation.
Dr. Streeter currently serves on the editorial board of several professional journals. He has edited two books: Rural Social Work: Building and Sustaining Community Assets (co-edited with Dr. T. Laine Scales), and Research on Social Work and Disasters (co-edited with Dr. Susan A. Murty). He has authored or co-authored numerous articles, book chapters, and research reports.
Dr. Streeter teaches both MSSW and Ph.D. courses. He has most recently taught Strategic Partnership through Collaborative Leadership, Theories of Administration, Planning, and Program Policy, Dynamics of Organizations and Communities, and Data Analysis and Computers I. Dr. Streeter was awarded the Lora Lee Pederson Teaching Excellence Award in 1993 and the university-wide Outstanding Graduate Teaching Award in1999 in recognition of distinction and excellence in teaching doctoral students.
Dr. Streeter is involved with several international field internships for students in the School of Social Work. Since 1999, he has been the faculty liaison for a CAL field placement with the United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) in Geneva, Switzerland. In 2006 he developed a placement in Tanzania with an organization called WAMATA, a small NGO that provide services to people who have HIV/AIDS. He is currently working to develop internships with the UNAIDS program in Tanzania and with UNHCR in Tanzania and Montenegro.
Dr. Streeter is an active volunteer in the community, serving on numerous boards for non-profit organizations. He has helped build houses for Habitat for Humanity for many years and is currently active with a coalition that is committed to building one house each year for Austin HFH. He works with a project called Border Outreach Mission that does home repair for families along the US/Mexico border in Eagle Pass, Texas and Piedras Negras, Mexico.
Dr. Streeter and his wife, Diane, have two sons, Brian and Aaron. Dr. Streeter’s interests include gardening, woodcarving, making homemade beer and wine, raising peafowl.
Teaching
Office Hours: Tuesdays and Wednesdays 1:00-2:30 and by appointment
Visit the School's Electronic Classroom for course list and syllabi.
Research Projects
Completed projects have the year of completion.
- Medicaid Infrastructure Resource Mapping (2008)
- The Parallel Strengths and Weaknesses of the Civil Society and the State: The Example of Katrina Survivors (2007)
- Solution-focused Alternatives for Education (SAFED) (2003)
- Georgetown Safe Schools/Healthy Students Initiative (2002)
- Welfare Waivers for Victims of Domestic Violence (1999)
- Texas Domestic Violence Needs Assessment Project (1998)
Selected Recent Publications
Selber, K. & Streeter, C. L. (2004). Family and Community Perceptions of Quality in Juvenile Justice Programs. Journal of Offender Rehabilitation, 38 (3), 31-47.
Scales, L. and Streeter, C.L. (Eds.), (2003). Rural Social Work: Building and Sustaining Community Assets. Pacific Grove, CA: Brooks/Cole.
Streeter, C. L. & Franklin, C. (2002). The Changing Environment of Social Work Practice in Schools. In Roberts, A. R. and Greene, G. J. (Eds.) Social Worker's Desk Reference. NY: Oxford University Press.
Franklin, C., Streeter, C. L. & Springer, D. W. (2001). Validity of the FACES IV Family Assessment Measure. Research on Social Work Practice.
Selber, K. & Streeter, C. L. (2000). A Customer-Oriented Model for Measuring and Managing Quality in Human Service Organizations. Administration in Social Work, 24, 2, 114.
Warren, K., Franklin, C. & Streeter, C. L. (1998). New Directions in Systems Theory: Chaos and Complexity. Social Work, 43, 4, 357-372.
Franklin, C. & Streeter, C. L. (1998). School-linked Services as Interprofessional Collaboration in Student Education: A Response. Social Work, 43, 1, 67-69.
Franklin, C., Corcoran, J., Nowicki, J. & Streeter, C. L. (1997). "Using Client Self-Anchored Scales to Measure Outcomes in Solution-Focused Therapy. Journal of Systemic Therapies, 10, 3, 246-265.
Warren, K., Franklin, C. & Streeter, C. L. (1997). Chaos theory and complexity theory. Encyclopedia of Social Work. Washington DC. NASW Press.
Murty, S. & Streeter, C. (Eds.). (1996) Research on Social Work and Disasters. New York, NY: Haworth Press.
Streeter, C. L. & Franklin, C. (1995). "School Reform: Linking Public Schools with Human Services." Social Work, 40, 3, 773-782.
Brannen, S. J. & Streeter, C. L. (1995). "Doing it With Data: Total Quality Management and the Evaluation of Social Services." In B. Gummer & P. McCallion (Eds.), Total Quality Management in the Social Services: Theory and Practice. Albany, NY: Rockefeller College Press, pp. 59-88.