Rate My Professor Jason Matejkowski

Jason Matejkowski is Professor and Associate Dean for Academic Programs in the University of Kansas School of Social Welfare, as well as Co-Director of the Center for the Advancement of Healthcare for Everyone (CAHE). He earned a Ph.D. in Social Welfare from the University of Pennsylvania in 2010, a Master of Social Work from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 2002, and a Bachelor of Science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign in 1994. His academic career at the University of Kansas began in 2012 as Assistant Professor, advancing to Associate Professor in 2018 and full Professor in 2024. Prior to KU, he held positions as Associate Research Scientist at the Treatment Research Institute in Philadelphia (2010-2012), Research Associate at Pathways to Housing (2009-2010), and Research Fellow at the University of Pennsylvania School of Social Policy & Practice (2005-2008), along with roles in program evaluation and management.

Matejkowski's research centers on mental illnesses and involvement with the criminal legal system, community participation among persons with mental illness, community corrections, and integrated mental health service models. Select publications include "Mental health in forensic settings" in The Handbook of Forensic Social Work Practice (2024, with K. Wright), "The waiving of parole consideration by people with mental illness who are incarcerated and recidivism outcomes" (Criminal Justice and Behavior, 2021, with M. Ostermann), "Challenges to employing shared decision making with adults under community supervision who have a mental illness" (Frontiers in Psychiatry, 2021), "Predictors of shared decision making with people who have a serious mental illness and who are under justice supervision in the community" (International Journal of Law and Psychiatry, 2020, with M. Severson), and "Racial variation in mental health court experiences and the associations of these experiences with recidivism" (Criminal Justice and Behavior, 2020, with W. Han and S. Lee). His scholarship has secured over $3.7 million in federal funding to train social work professionals in integrated behavioral health care for rural and underserved populations, resulting in empirical research informing education, practice, and policy. Cited nearly 1,100 times, his work has earned him a national reputation, including consulting for the U.S. Department of Justice on parole decision-making for individuals with mental illness. Major awards include the Suzanne and Harry Statland Award for Excellence in Research and Scholarship (2022), Gene A. and Gretchen Budig Award for Excellence in Teaching (2019), and Future Leaders in Social Work Education Program selection (2022).