Abstract:  The social service agencies founded by university teachers have made some progress these years and been playing an obviously active role in enhancing university teaching, internships for students, discipline construction and social service. All these achievements owe much to the teacher leaders. However, they don’t get the supports from the universities they work for, because running organizations is excluded from the current teacher evaluation systems in universities. Social work teachers who are operating institutions have integrated views on teaching and practice, and therefore they choose to set up agencies. The different understandings between teachers and universities constitute the overlap and divergence of teacher’s role. This dilemma is disappointing and frustrating the teachers and then will have a negative effect?on the development of social work education and social work profession. In view of this, the reformation of teacher evaluation system should be an appropriate way to encourage university teachers to lead social service agencies.

Key words: teacher leading agency, social work, overlap and divergence of teacher’s role, institution analysis