Current Students
The faculty members of the Social Work Program at Texas Tech University hope you will use this site to better understand the social work profession and our academic program. Please contact us if we may answer any questions for you.
Looking for information about coursework? The major is described here. We recommend that you schedule advising appointments at least once each year to make sure you are on-track for your degree plans. Contact Helen Morrow, Director: helen.morrow@ttu.edu
Do you know who your student representatives are?
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Jose Sauseda |
Stephanie Wessels |
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While any student can bring issues to the social work faculty at any time, it is the duty of the Student Representatives to collect student concerns, comments, or questions about the program and bring them to the faculty for consideration. The Student Representative may collect these issues through any legal and legitimate means. In other words, he/she may solicit these through e-mail, in writing, or through meetings of the Student Association of Social Workers. Student reps meet with the faculty at least once per semester. Elections for new student reps are held at the beginning of each long semester. Student reps must be social work majors who have been accepted into candidacy in the Social Work Program, who are in good standing in the program, and who are enrolled in SW 3332 and SW 3333. Student reps serve for two long semesters.
Social Work Scholarships
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| For more information: | Contact: Helen Morrow, Director 806-742-2400 helen.morrow@ttu.edu |
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Student association of Social workers (SASW)
SASW is a student organization that thrives in areas of volunteering and community service. "We are dedicated to helping people realize a better life."
Why join? SASW provides opportunities for volunteerism, community involvement and networking, learning about agencies and professions in social work, and meeting other social workers.
Officer Roles
President: Plan's meetings and agendas, organizes officers and delineates tasks, coordinates with professors and honor society, meets with professors before each semester and during the semester, comes up with ideas for special projects, approves spending, approves volunteer activities, keeps SASW up to date with the Center for Campus Life as a registered organization, helps with budget preparation and requests from SGA, responsible for overall functioning of the organization, and sees that the organization reaches its desired objectives and goals.
Vice President: Helps with meetings, assists with the planning of special projects, performs any tasks delineated by the president, coordinates parties and special purchases, and assumes the responsibilities of the president in their absence.
Secretary: Responsible for all correspondence, keeps accurate minutes at all meetings, keeps records of meetings, maintains records of members and performs any other tasks delegated by the president or vice-president.
Treasurer: Responsible for the financial transactions, recieves dues, pays expenditures, keeps record of income and expenditures, assists in the budget preparation and requests from the SGA by attending their mandatory budget meetings, and maintains current list of members who have paid.
Historian: Maintains an archive of the organization activities (scrapbook). They're present at all events or designate someone to take pictures and/or show the scrapbook as a representation of the organization, also works with the publicity manager and the social work dept. to get pictures on the websites. If able, helps maintain website.
Publicity Manager: Arranges for speakers at all meetings, designs tshirts, helps promote SASW and build membership, responsible for maintaining the public image of SASW, announces special events and meeting, responsible for making fliers and getting them approved by Center for Campus Life, and assists with maintanence of the website.
Volunteer Chairperson: Finds volunteer opportunities for the organization as a group to participate in, and coordinates these activities after approved by the president.
SOAC Representative: Attends all meetings of Students Organization Advisory Council as a representative of the SASW and reports back on all pertinent information.
NASW Student Representative: Attends monthly NASW meetings and reports back to SASW.
For more information, contact 2008-2009 President: Miranda Woodruff, at miranda.woodruff@ttu.edu