[2] This move led AASSW, NASSA, and others to establish the National Council on Social Work Education in 1946.
[3] The report recommended that a sole organization be founded that would permit the many elements within the social work profession to participate in setting and maintaining accreditation criteria.
AASSW and NASSA were dissolved, and CSWE was born in January 1952 with the following statement of purpose: "to promote the development of sound programs of social work education in the United States, its territories and possessions, and Canada".
[4] Helen R. Wright, dean of the University of Chicago's School of Social Service Administration, was named CSWE's first president, and Katherine A. Kendall, who had worked for the Children's Bureau of the United Nations and AASSW, was appointed CSWE's executive secretary.
The CSWE is the only organization that provides accreditation for all online baccalaureate and master's social work programs in the United States.