The Department of Social Work sponsors the Student Social Workers Association (SSWA), a community for social work students that participates in advocacy, service projects, professional development, recreation, and social activities.  A member of SSWA sits on the BSW Program Committee and represents the interests and concerns of the social work student body.  The Department of Social Work supports the right of social work majors and minors to organize to promote their own interests in matters concerning academic and student affairs.  Through SSWA students are encouraged to discuss and debate issues that affect them related to the BSW program.  SSWA offers students an opportunity to develop organizational and leadership skills needed by beginning level social work practitioners.

SSWA meetings are held at least monthly on a Tuesday or Thursday late afternoon.  SSWA meetings and activities are open to social work majors and minors as well as to other interested BSU students. Each year officers are elected that serve as a steering committee in conjunction with interested students.  The steering committee plans events of interest to social work students such as an information session on graduate social work education.  SSWA has also been involved in fundraising for UNICEF and LEAD.  Dr. Greta Slater serves as the Association's faculty advisor.

The SSWA By-Laws can be found in Appendix B.