Emily W. Myers

Director

Social Work Program

October 1994

myersew@auburn.edu

I have long been active in leadership roles across the Auburn University campus such as: Women 's Caucus, Faculty-Student Mentor Program, President's Advisory Committee on HB 454, and the Women's Studies Committee.

I have excellent networking skills and have utilized them in the proposal for the President's Advisory Committee on the Status of Women and Minorities as well as assisting in the development and maintenance of field placement sites for social work students.

Serve as advisor to ALPHA DELTA MU the Social Work HONOR SOCIETY.

Outreach:

I have served on many community boards and in doing so have helped to influence both placement of social work student interns and securing of jobs by our graduates.

Boards I have worked with:

• Stop Drugs Now Task Force
• East Alabama Services for the Elderly
• Lee/Russell County Long Term Care Advisory Committee
• East Alabama AIDS Outreach
• Alabama Society for Health Care Social Workers
• Education Health Professions Partnership

Areas of Expertise:

• Addictions
• AIDS
• Aging
• Field Education in social Work
• Social Work Practicum Methods (Gen)

Other Qualifications

• Excellent teacher evaluations
• Good organizational skllls
• Available to students as advisor, advocate, reference writer etc. (Our majors get jobs and/or go to graduate school).
• Person with most longevity in social work department.

• SOWO 4080