| Upcoming Webinars / Family Relations Editor Search / Résumé & CV Review / NCFR's Fall Honors Grads / Last Call for JFTR Papers
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NCFR Weekly Zippy News
Thursday, Jan. 5, 2023
- Announcing NCFR's Upcoming Webinars
- NCFR Seeks Editor for Family Relations
- Submit Nominations for NCFR Leadership Positions
- CFLE Leaders Needed for Immediate Openings
- Dust Off Your Résumé in the New Year
- MacDermid Wadsworth Recognized for Outstanding
Scholarship
- Congrats to NCFR's Fall Honors Grads
- Last Call for JFTR Papers: Resilience During Global Adversity
- 2022 Conference Recordings Available
- Zippy's Video of the Week: Why Do We Procrastinate?
- Employment Opportunities
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Announcing NCFR's Upcoming Webinars
Acquire New Skills & Expertise This Winter
Forming and Implementing a Needs Assessment
Thursday, Jan. 19, 2023 / 11 a.m. to noon CT Presented by Celeste H. Hill, Ph.D., CFLE
This webinar will benefit anyone seeking to develop or translate the skills necessary to prepare and administer a needs assessment.
Building a Nonprofit Family Life Education Business
Tuesday, Jan. 31, 2023 / 11 a.m. to noon CT Presented by Mara J. Briere, M.A., CFLE
Utilizing the presenter's own nonprofit experiences, this webinar will provide an overview of the fundamentals needed to form a nonprofit business or organization.
Strategies to Connect and Work with Community Partners
Thursday, Feb. 9, 2023 / 11 a.m. to noon CT Presented by David Schramm, Ph.D., CFLE
This webinar will provide examples of how family researchers and practitioners can work with community partners, such as schools, the criminal justice system, Head Start, and local businesses. Strategies will be provided for working with partners in one’s own community, both rural and urban.
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Call for Applications
NCFR Seeks Editor for Family Relations
NCFR seeks nominations and applications for the position of editor for Family Relations: Interdisciplinary Journal of Applied Family Science (FR).
The term of the current editor, Wendy Middlemiss, Ph.D., CFLE (University of North Texas), will be completed with
the publication of the December 2024 issue.
The four-year term of the new editor will begin January 2024. The first issue will be published in February 2025. The FR Search Committee will review application materials beginning Jan.10, 2023.
READ MORE
DETAILS
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NCFR Leadership Opportunities
Submit Nominations for NCFR Leadership Positions
Affiliate Councils Board — Apply by Jan. 9
The NCFR Affiliate Council Board has two immediate openings for its executive committee: Student Affiliate Adviser Representative and Affiliate Councils Conference Program Chair.
An election for these two roles will take place in February 2023. If you are interested, please apply by Monday, January 9 to place your name on the ballot! Learn more and apply.
2024 Elections Slate — Nominations due Jan. 31
Nominate yourself or a colleague for the following NCFR leadership roles to begin in November 2024, following the annual conference:
- Conference Students and New Professionals Program Representative
- Elections Council Members
- Inclusion and Diversity Committee Members
- Fellows Committee Members
- Conference Program Chair-Elect
You can read selection criteria to help you decide or to identify potential candidates for the upcoming elections, or make your nominations right away! Submit nominations for the 2024 slate by Jan. 31, 2023.
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Family Life Education CFLE Leaders Needed
for Immediate Openings
NCFR currently has six openings for Certified Family Life Educators (CFLEs) on CFLE-related boards and committees for terms beginning in 2023. Please consider applying by Jan. 13, 2023 for a position on one of them and help to lead our CFLE programming!
CFLE Advisory Board: One practitioner representative and two academic representatives are sought for this overarching leadership body of the CFLE program. The available positions are three-year terms.
CFLE Exam Committee: Three subject matter experts with experience working and teaching in the field of Family Life
Education are sought to review and continually update the CFLE Exam. Term lengths run from two to five-years.
Applications are due by Jan. 13, 2023.
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NCFR Member Benefits
Dust Off Your Résumé in the New Year
NCFR members have an exclusive benefit to ensure their CV or résumé will stand out from the crowd. Three times a
year, any NCFR member can submit either of these documents for a free review from seasoned NCFR members.
The winter submission period is Jan. 1-16, 2023. Over 75 people received a review of their résumé or CV in 2022. Submit your documents for review today.
VOLUNTEER OPPORTUNITY: Applications are also being accepted for résumé/CV reviewers now until January 16. Please see our reviewer application form to learn more and apply.
LEARN MORE
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NCFR Award Spotlight
MacDermid
Wadsworth Recognized for Outstanding Scholarship
This week, we recognize Shelley M. MacDermid Wadsworth, Ph.D., CFLE, recipient of the Ernest W. Burgess Award, which acknowledges the achievements of an NCFR member in their outstanding impact and commitment to the study of families.
The recipient is selected by NCFR’s Research and Theory Section in recognition of continuous and meritorious contributions to the area of theory and research in the family field.
Dr. MacDermid Wadsworth is pictured above (right) with Isaac Washburn, Ph.D., Award Selection Committee Chair.
Read why Dr. MacDermid Wadsworth was selected.
And congratulations to all of NCFR's 2022 Award Recipients
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NCFR Honors Recognition
Congrats to NCFR's Honors Graduates
NCFR awarded honors to 19 university students who completed their academic programs in summer and fall 2022.
NCFR Honors Student Recognition is awarded to students who demonstrate outstanding achievements in academics, leadership, and community service in the discipline of Family Science.
Thank you to our members who reviewed applications!
VIEW SUMMER HONORS GRADS
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Call for Papers
International Perspectives on Families’ Challenges and Resilience During Global Adversity
Last Call for Manuscripts: Jan. 15, 2023
NCFR's Journal of Family Theory & Review (JFTR) seeks manuscripts for a special issue
to be published in Dec. 2023.
Contemporary families are living in a context of unprecedented adversity at a global scale. We are being reminded, like in other adverse times in history, of how central families are to human functioning: they can be the source of vulnerability and also the source of one’s greatest resources and strengths.
This special issue aims at gathering international family scholars to reflect on our theoretical compasses for understanding and supporting families in these unpredictable and polarizing times.
Submission are due by Sunday, Jan. 15, 2023.
READ FULL CALL
JFTR is also accepting submissions for a new feature, Emerging Voices, on an ongoing basis. Read full call.
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2022 Conference Recordings Available
All registered NCFR conference attendees (in person or NCFR Bridge) may access the 2022 conference recordings for free through the Whova app. This is a benefit of your registration.
View the list of recordings
If you missed NCFR 2022, access to video recordings is available for purchase. This package includes all 4 plenary sessions, 5 special sessions, and 6 invited presenter sessions.
Learn more and
purchase
Purchase classroom licenses for specific conference sessions for use in your classroom, department, or organization.
Request a
classroom license
GET STARTED HERE
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Zippy's Video of the Week
Why Do We Procrastinate?
Happy New Year! To help you make good on your resolutions for 2023, this week's video sheds some scientific light on why we procrastinate even when we know it's bad to do so.
This video explores what is going on inside our brains when we are faced with daunting tasks and offers strategies to break the cycle of this harmful practice.
WATCH THIS VIDEO
(And then get back to work! 🙂)
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New Employment Opportunities
Employers: Get your job opening included in Zippy News by posting it in NCFR's online Jobs Center! Get started here.
Assistant Professor In Quantitative Research Methodology in Human Development and Family Science
Oklahoma State University
The Department of Human Development and Family Science (HDFS) at Oklahoma State University seeks a nine-month, full-time, tenure-track appointment at the rank of assistant professor to begin August 2023. The successful candidate will establish and maintain a funded program of research designed to advance HDFS; provide expert statistical and methodological consultation to faculty and graduate students; teach undergraduate and/or graduate courses, primarily in the areas of research methods and advanced statistics; and provide service to the university, community, and broader profession.
Location:
Stillwater, Oklahoma
Required Education: Doctorate
Application Deadline: Feb. 1, 2023; open until filled
SEE FULL JOB LISTING
Anticipated Clinical Assistant Professor
School of Family & Consumer Sciences / Northern Illinois University
The School of Family and Consumer Sciences at Northern Illinois University (NIU) seeks an anticipated nine-month, clinical faculty position at the clinical assistant professor level in Human Development and Family Sciences, to begin August 2023. This position will support instructional needs of undergraduate and graduate programs in Human Development and Family Sciences.
Location: DeKalb, Illinois
Required Education: Doctorate
Application Deadline: Preference given to applications received by Feb. 1, 2023; open until filled
SEE FULL JOB LISTING
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