PREPARE MODELOvercoming a Printing Dilemma TaLysa S. Bethea

PREPARE MODEL

• Step 1: Identify PROBLEMS

• Step 2: Review macro and macro reality

• Step 3: Establish macro reality

• Step 4: Identify relevant people

• Step 5: Assess financial cost and potential benefits

• Step 6: Personal and professional risk

• Step 7: Evaluate success

TARGET SYSTEM

• Target System: individual, group, or community to be changed or influenced to achieve the

social work goals (Kirst-Ashman & Hull, 2001).

• The target system for change is the Social Work Program.

STEP 1: IDENTIFY PROBLEMS

• Printing can become costly for students at Winston Salem State University.

• Students majoring in social work are expected to demonstrate writing proficiency in each

course (which requires more printing).

• Students are charged ten cents a page in O’Kelly Library (Winston-Salem State University ,

2014).

• Some students struggle to pay for printing.

STEP 2: REVIEWING MACRO AND PERSONAL REALITY

Macro Reality• Initially the change agent wanted change to be

mandatory. Due to academic freedom, this is an unrealistic expectation

• Students may not support the idea of the electronic submission of assignments.

• Technical difficulties

Personal Reality• Determined, creative, and assertive

• Positive relationships with Social Work program professors

• Strong communication with fellow Social Work program peers

STEP 3: ESTABLISHING PRIMARY GOALS

• GOAL-Reduce the financial strain on Social Work students caused by the cost of printing

• STRATEGY-Encourage Social Work professors to consider the submission of assignments via Dropbox on

Blackboard or Turnitin

• Individual meetings with instructors

• Signatures of support from faculty and students

STEP 4: IDENTIFYING RELEVANT PEOPLE OF INFLUENCE

• All Social Work Program Staff:

• Sonja V. Harry, Ph.D., LMSW, ACSW: Assistant Professor of Social Work Department of Behavioral

Sciences and Social Work

• Tiffany D. Baffour, Ph.D., M.A., MSS: Director, Center for Excellence in Teaching & Learning, Associate

Professor of Social Work

• Janella Melius, Ph. D., LCSW: Associate Professor of Social Work Behavioral Sciences

• Yolanda M. Byrd, Ph. D., LCSW: Associate Professor of Social Work Director of Field Placement

• Loring Greaux, MSW: Visiting Professor

STEP 5: ASSESSING FINANCIAL COST AND BENEFITS TO CLIENTS AND ORGANIZATION

Benefits:• Electronic Submissions

• Free for students

• Students’ work can be accessed by program for future reference

• Environmentally friendly

Cost:• Electronic Submissions

• Technical difficulties

• Lack of internet access

• Campus-wide internet issues

STEP 6: REVIEW PROFESSIONAL AND PERSONAL RISK

• Professors may not prefer electronic submissions

• Change agent does not want to jeopardize personal relationships with peers and professors

• There may be resistance from faculty and peers

• Change agent may become discouraged

STEP 7: EVALUATE THE POTENTIAL SUCCESS OF THE MACRO CHANGE PROCESS

• Accomplishments

• Obtained signatures of support from faculty and students

• One professor has agreed to convert 50% of her assignments from traditional submission to

electronic submission

• Another professor has agreed to continue to have all work submitted electronically

• Professional confidence has increased

QUESTIONS

REFERENCES

• Blackboard. (2015). Blackboard Learn. Retrieved from Blackboard Learn: https://blackboard.forsythtech.edu/

• Kirst-Ashman, K. K., & Grafton H. Hull, J. (2001). Macro Skills Workbook A Generalist Approach. Belmont:

Brooks/Cole, Cengage Learning .

• Turnitin. (2015). Turnitin-Company. Retrieved from Turnitin: http://turnitin.com/en_us/about-us/our-company

• Winston-Salem State University . (2014). C. G. O'Kelly- Library Services- Equipment Software- Equipment

Software. Retrieved from Winston-Salem State University : http://

www.wssu.edu/cg-okelly-library/services/equip- software/default.aspx