The award recognizes the outstanding Family Studies dissertation proposal submitted by a doctoral candidate
October 26, 2012
Lowe's dissertation is titled Parental Involvement during the College Transition:Trajectories and Associations with Academic Success, Well-being, and Individuation.
Awosan is a marriage and family therapist and a doctoral candidate in couple and family therapy
October 26, 2012
The purpose of this award is to provide support for the completion of an approved doctoral dissertation with a focus on issues impacting ethnic minority families.
The two graduate students are co-recipients of the award
October 25, 2012
This award is given to NCFR graduate student members who have demonstrated excellence as a student with high potential for contribution to the discipline of family studies.
I recently learned the importance of communicating with our newer and often younger members when I had the pleasure in May to travel to Portland, Oregon, to the Northwest Council on Family Relations (NWCFR) meeting.
by S. Greg Thompson, Ph.D., and Kimberly A. Wallet, Ph.D., both of Lamar University
Family scholars can and do contribute to build social capital, and thereby, elevate quality of life in a community. By training, many of us have insight into assessing community needs and, by employment, we have standing to help direct resources toward resolving those needs.
By Stephen M. Gavazzi, Ph.D. , Dean and director, The Ohio State University at Mansfield; President, Great Thinker Productions, LLC
Posted by Nancy Gonzalez | August 10, 2012
The prominent impact of families can and does extend into the college years, especially when parents and their sons and daughters recognize the need to renegotiate how they interact with one another.
February is Family Life Education Month. Help NCFR promote February as Family Life Education Month in 2013 by contributing to the National Council on Family Relations' Family Life Education Month Contest.
Nominate a colleague for the professional Meritorious Service Award. Students may apply for the student awards, all of which include a stipend and recognition at the annual conference.
A report from the student affiliate at Samford University
Katrina Brown and Melissa Belflower are president and vice president of the student chapter of NCFR at Samford University. Under their leadership this student chapter has tripled its attendance rates. One of their focus areas is raising student awareness of the CFLE designation.
Katie Davis, Indiana State University, was one of about 40 graduates who earned NCFR honors recognition this spring. Congratulations to all these great students for their scholarship and community involvement.