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Keith Miller
Professor Emeritus
Social Policy, Macro Practice, Social Work Research, Disabilities, Adult Learning, Rural Social Work
B.S., Bowling Green University
M.A., Bowling Green University
Ph.D., Bowling Green University
kamiller@uwyo.edu • (307) 766-2762 • Health Sciences Bldg 147C
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I joined the Division of Social Work (then the Department of Social Work in the College of Arts and Sciences) in 1976, two years after the department was first accredited by CSWE.
From 1973-1978 I was one of the original founders of the Wyoming Human Services Project (WHSP) and directed the project from 1975-1978. The WHSP trained students in their final year of university study (graduate and undergraduate) in multi-disciplinary teamwork theory and practice focusing on ameliorating the "people problems" occurring in Wyoming's "boom towns" created by energy booms. Those students then competed for full-time, paid positions on human services teams working in the state's rapidly growing communities. I accompanied the first such team to Gillette in 1975 and directed its operation for two years. A second community-based team was established in Wheatland in 1976. Subsequent teams were placed in other Wyoming boom towns until the project ended in 1980.
In 1978 I was asked by the University to direct UW's newly established upper-division branch campus in Casper and remained as that program's dean until 1986 when I returned to the classroom in Laramie teaching all the social work policy, macro methods and research courses for the department.
In 1994 I established the Wyoming INstitute for Disabilities (WIND) and became its first Director, a position I still hold.
Over the years, I have been the principal investigator for many different projects and have been awarded more than $15,000,000 in grant funding.
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Research Interests:
Research interests include social policy analysis, disability issues (particularly developmental disabilities), social justice and discrimination
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Teaching:
Foundations of Social Work
Social Work Macro Practice
Disabilities Supports and Services
Social Work with Diverse Populations
Social Welfare Policies and Issues
Social Policy Analysis
Social Work Policy and Administration
Social Work Research and Research Project
Institutional Discrimination
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Service:
Member: Board of Directors (national), Association of Technology Act Programs. 2004-
Member: University Tenure and Promotion Committee. 2002-2005.
Member: Board of Directors (national), American Association of University Affiliated Programs (AAUAP). 1997-2000. Treasurer: 1998-2000. Executive Committee: 1998-2000. Member: Wyoming Governor's Planning Council on Developmental Disabilities. 1982-86; 1994-2004.
Chair: Transportation Committee. Wyoming Governor's Planning Council on Developmental Disabilities. 20022004.
Member: Laramie Advisory Commission on Disabilities. Advisory to Laramie City Council. 2001-2004.
Member: ADD Outcomes Reporting Task Force, Administration on Developmental Disabilities, Department of Health and Human Services, Washington, DC. April, 2000.
Site Visitor: Represent the Administration on Developmental Disabilities, U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, in its Quality Enhancement System reviews of University Centers of Excellence in Developmental Disabilities (UCEDD) in the national network of UCEDDs. 1997-Present
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Affiliations, Associations, Consultation:
- Association of University Centers on Disabilities
- (AUCD)American Association on Mental
- Retardation (AAMR) Association of Technology Act Programs (ATAP)
- The Association for Persons with Severe Handicaps (TASH)
- Wyoming Association for Persons in Supported Employment (WYAPSE)
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