BSW Program Director and Clinical Assistant Professor
The University of Alabama
Dr. Sherron Wilkes is a Clinical Assistant Professor and the BSW Program Director at The University of Alabama. Dr. Wilkes has a zeal for student engagement and retention, leadership, and macro social work practice. She has assisted college students with organizing campus and community service-learning projects, thus empowering students to develop their own leadership skills and affect change. Dr. Wilkes teaches numerous social work courses such as Introduction to Fields of Social Work Practice, Social Work Practice in Communities and Organizations, and Human Behavior in the Social Work Environment. In addition, she has practiced in the areas of mental health, HIV/AIDS, and community development.
Dr. Wilkes has spearheaded the annual Social Work Month activities and received signed proclamations from Mayor Walt Maddox proclaiming March as Social Work Month in Tuscaloosa. In addition, Wilkes coordinated NASW Advocacy Day events for social work students to attend in Montgomery, AL.
Dr. Wilkes’s primary research and scholarship focus on “A Qualitative Inquiry into the Use of a Virtual Platform during a Crisis to Boost Social Work Competencies.” Noontime Knowledge virtual learning series were started in response to COVID and the resulting restrictions on in-person continuing education. Dr. Wilkes envisioned and implemented Noontime Knowledge in August 2020 as part of a study on the benefits, challenges, and experiences of a virtual learning series. The growing popularity of the series has allowed its continuation to the present day. Noontime Knowledge is offered as a monthly continuing education series.
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