Bio

Jo Ann R. Regan, Ph.D, MSW, FNAP joined NCSSS as Dean on July 1, 2020. Prior to coming to NCSSS, she worked for nine years at the Council on Social Work Education (CSWE), the national association representing social work education with over 800 accredited baccalaureate and master’s degree programs and educators advancing quality social work education. As the Vice President of Education, Dr. Regan led national accreditation, education, research, faculty, and student initiatives. She also served as the director of accreditation at CSWE and as an accreditation specialist.

Dr. Regan developed and taught in several social work distance education programs. She practiced in child welfare and the mental health field and began her social work career in Child Protective Services, specifically with children and families affected by child sexual abuse.

Dr. Regan is considered a national and international expert in the areas of accreditation, curriculum innovation, interprofessional and online education and consulted with numerous social work programs in these areas. Her research and publications have focused on distance education and the use of technology for social work education and practice, competency assessment and accreditation. She was inducted as a social work fellow of the National Academies of Practice in 2019 and selected for a 2021 Fulbright Scholar research award in the
Czech Republic.

Dean Announcement June 4, 2020

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Published Works

• Coe Regan, J.R. (update in press). Technology in social work education in Franklin, C (Editors). Encyclopedia of Social Work, 21st ed. Oxford University Press: NY. 2013 Edition
  DOI: 10.1093/acrefore/9780199975839.013.628
• Coe Regan, J. R. (2016). Web-based social work education in the United States. In I. Taylor, M. Bogo, M. Lefevre, & B. Teater (Eds.), Routledge international handbook of social work education (pp. 27–37). New York, NY: Routledge International.
• Coe Regan, J. R., & Dettlaff, A. J. (2016). Understanding and assessing competence: Challenges associated with the competency-based approach to social work education. In I. Taylor, M. Bogo, M. Lefevre, & B. Teater (Eds.), Routledge international handbook of social work education (pp. 27–37). New York, NY: Routledge International.
• Robbins, S.P., Coe Regan, J.R., Herbert Williams, J., Smyth, N.J. and Bogo, M. (2016). From the Editor—The future of social work education. Journal of Social Work Education, 52(4), 387-397.
• Coe Regan, J.R. (2016), Innovators and early adopters of distance education in social work. Advances in Social Work, 17(1): 113-115.