{"id":11718,"date":"2025-04-02T15:40:32","date_gmt":"2025-04-02T15:40:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/?p=11718"},"modified":"2025-04-02T15:40:32","modified_gmt":"2025-04-02T15:40:32","slug":"national-association-of-social-workers-honors-augsburgs-kao-nou-moua","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/2025\/04\/02\/national-association-of-social-workers-honors-augsburgs-kao-nou-moua\/","title":{"rendered":"National Association of Social Workers Honors Augsburg\u2019s Kao Nou Moua"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2025\/04\/Facebook-9.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-11719 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2025\/04\/Facebook-9-1024x576.jpg\" alt=\"A headshot of Kao Nou Moua. She's wearing glasses and a gray striped shirt.\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2025\/04\/Facebook-9-1024x576.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2025\/04\/Facebook-9-300x169.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2025\/04\/Facebook-9-768x432.jpg 768w, https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2025\/04\/Facebook-9-1536x864.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/29\/2025\/04\/Facebook-9.jpg 1600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a>Every year, the National Association of Social Workers (NASW) awards individuals who have made a difference in their state\u2019s social work field. NASW-MN recently named Kao Nou Moua the 2025 Tony Bibus Social Work Faculty of the Year for her leadership and commitment to student success.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Moua serves as assistant professor of social work as well as the Master of Social Work program director at Augsburg University. \u201cKao Nou is truly a superstar of our department in every way, and I\u2019m thrilled that she\u2019s receiving this recognition from NASW,\u201d says Erin Sugrue, associate professor and chair of Augsburg\u2019s social work department. The award is named after the late Professor Emeritus Anthony Bibus III, who spent over 20 years at Augsburg in addition to serving on the NASW national board.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cI&#8217;m grateful to be recognized by my social work peers to receive an award named in honor of Tony Bibus, who passed away last year,\u201d says Moua. \u201cMost importantly, it&#8217;s a privilege to be nominated by our wonderful students at Augsburg, who allow me to live out my calling as an educator and advocate.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Learn more about Augsburg\u2019s <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/socialwork\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">social work programs<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> and <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/now\/2023\/03\/15\/uncovering-the-experiences-of-hmong-entrepreneurs\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Kao Nou Moua\u2019s work<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Every year, the National Association of Social Workers (NASW) awards individuals who have made a difference in their state\u2019s social work field. NASW-MN recently named Kao Nou Moua the 2025 Tony Bibus Social Work Faculty of the Year for her leadership and commitment to student success.\u00a0 Moua serves as assistant professor of social work as &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":569,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,3228],"tags":[3472,1820,2641],"class_list":["post-11718","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-faculty","category-kudos","tag-awards","tag-master-of-social-work","tag-social-work"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11718","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/569"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11718"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11718\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11720,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11718\/revisions\/11720"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.augsburg.edu\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}