Rate My Professor Karen Magruder

Magruder has earned prestigious honors for her teaching, including the 2025 UT Regents’ Outstanding Teaching Award, President’s Award for Excellence in Distance Education Teaching, Provost’s Award for Excellence in Teaching, Torgerson Teaching Award, and Maverick Advantage Distinguished Faculty recognition. She also received the USDLA Excellence in Distance Education Award and the national DSW conference Outstanding Contributions to Social Work Education Award. Notable publications include co-editing AI-Powered Education: Innovative Teaching Strategies to Elevate Student Learning (2025), contributions to Therapeutic Modalities: A Visual Resource for Clinicians and Students (2024), “Ready or not, here AI comes!: ChatGPT's implications for social work education” in the Journal of Social Work Education, and articles on artificial intelligence and eco-anxiety in Social Work Today. Her conference presentations cover eco-anxiety prevalence and treatment, AI in social work education, and environmental justice. Beyond academia, she maintains a private therapy practice, offers clinical supervision, and runs a YouTube channel with free social work education resources, while mentoring students for long-term professional success.