Dr. Michelle Alvarez joins us beginning in the 2007-08 academic year from Indiana where most recently she was the project director for an 8.4 million dollar "Safe Schools/Healthy Students" grant in an Indiana K-12 system. Prior to that she was on the social work faculty at the University of Southern Indiana for 5 years. Prior to that she served in a variety of social work positions, though her particular passion is school social work, a topic in which she has co-edited a text. The statewide school social work professional organization, MSSWA, is so excited that Michelle is joining us that they are having their 2007 state conference. Another of Michelle's passions is distance education and we expect that she will be of great assistance as we develop hybrid courses for the MSW program. Michelle has her MSW from the University of Maryland at Baltimore and her doctorate from Nova Southeast.
