The Walter Hudson Doctoral Scholarship at FSU's College of Social Work

Walter Hudson, Ph.D., was a highly regarded faculty member at the FSU College of Social Work. For more than four decades, Hudson's career in social work earned him international recognition for his advancement of measurement theory, development and testing of assessment and outcome evaluation tools, evidence-based practice and computer applications for practice. His prolific scholarship was recognized by the Society for Social Work Research in 1999, when he was honored with the inaugural Distinguished Career Achievement Award for his contributions to the social work field. "In my view, then and now, he was a giant in the field by promoting high quality research in social work,” said Bruce Thyer, Ph.D., who has endowed the Walter Hudson Doctoral Scholarship. “Walter Hudson's work was enormously influential, and his legacy was perpetuated by the many doctoral students he worked with as a dissertation chair and committee member.” Donations to the Walter Hudson Doctoral Scholarship will support future Ph.D. candidates at FSU's College of Social Work as they follow in Hudson's footsteps, advancing the profession and researching new methods for increasing the resiliency of communities and individuals.