It's time to nominate board and staff heroes for the association's annual awards. To honor someone for the Sunny Andrews Award or the Administrator award, look here.
Executive Director Donna DeAngelis announces retirement
It's been almost 18 years since DeAngelis took the helm, and many, many changes in the association. Read more.
President Pat Heard signs the memorandum of understanding for cooperation with the Korean Association of Social Workers. With her for the event at the April Board of Directors meeting in Lexington, KY, are Secretary Jenise Comer, left, and Executive Director Donna DeAngelis, right. DeAngelis spoke in January in Seoul, Korea, resulting in the invitation from the association. Read more about the memorandum in the Board of Directors report.
Dr. Rick Reamer at spring meeting: What Facebook?
The last time he spoke to the association was 2000. What a difference a decade makes. Read more.
The 2012 Nominating Committee met in Lexington to plan out the year's work. From left are Melinda Pilkinton (MS), Bob Johnson (AB), Ronnie Saunders III (IN) and Past President Amanda Randall (NE).
This is the year to choose the next ASWB president.
The Nominating Committee wants to hear from you. Read more.
This beautiful Key West sunset photo was taken by Leslie McCarl (PA), one of this year's exam committee co-chairs. As a reward for working hard and incessantly, the committee met in Key West, its one travel meeting of the year.
From the 2012 Spring Meeting
Help from friends welcome in the e-world
Some boards are ahead of others in moving into scary territory--the court cases are no doubt on the way. Read more.
Okay, so what's good about the new communication?
Social media has its uses, plus it's there if you want to tell people you just ducked into a bathroom. Read more.
Here's what happens if boards don't report to the PPD
All this technology comes with legal issues. Read more.
They really, really liked the spring meeting
But anxiety was mentioned prominently in the evaluations. Read more.
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