FACULTY - Nancy A. Rodenborg
Associate Professor, Department Chair
Nancy Rodenborg has over 20 years experience in social work practice, teaching, and research on diversity and inequality. She teaches diversity courses to both MSW and BSW students and is a member of the Augsburg College Diversity Committee and the Diversity and Global Learning Collaborative. She led the development of a funded project with social work colleagues and The INTER-RACE Institute to increase MSW students' cultural competence by participating in facilitated, intentionally diverse dialogue.
Dr. Rodenborg's current research explores intergroup dialogue as a group-work and educational method. Her dissertation examined institutional discrimination in the US child welfare system, work she builds upon as a board member of the African American Adoption Agency and Our Children Our Future. Dr. Rodenborg brings a passion for global understanding and cooperation to her work, and she serves on the executive committee for the Social Work in a Latin American Context Mexico semester. She urges all social work students to participate in at least one international learning experience while at Augsburg. "It is vital for our shared future! I am committed to increasing our students' cultural competence so they do not perpetuate systemic discrimination and are prepared to join with others to promote long term structural change. I see this as a challenging, exciting, life-long and global endeavor."
