Zippy News: NCFR 2024 Plenary Presenters

2024 NCFR Annual Conference
NCFR 2024 Plenary Lineup
Nov. 20-23, 2024 / Bellevue, WA

We are pleased to present this year's plenary presenters and look forward to the contributions that each will make towards this year's theme, “Building Resilience among Individuals, Families, and Communities.”

NCFR Past President, William J. Doherty, Ph.D., NCFR Fellow, is a professor emeritus in the Department of Family Social Science at the University of Minnesota.
Velma McBride Murry, Ph.D., is Lois Audrey Betts chair in education and human development and professor of human and organizational development at Vanderbilt University.
Lancer Stephens, Ph.D., is an associate dean and associate professor at the University of Oklahoma Hudson College of Public Health.
Jennifer Hays-Grudo, Ph.D., is a Regents Professor of psychiatry and behavioral science at Oklahoma State University Center for Health Sciences.

You can check out all there is in store for this year's annual conference — the schedule is available as a PDF download.

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Students: Special Rates & Perks at NCFR 2024

Attention: Undergraduate and Graduate Students

Register for the 2024 NCFR Annual Conference, and seize some of the opportunities that await you as a student member!

Register to attend the conference. Special registration rates are available to all students, and even deeper discounts for NCFR student members!
Sign up to work as a student aide and receive a $60 conference registration rebate! This is a unique benefit of your NCFR membership. When registering, select "Yes" for the question that asks if you would like to be a student aide.
Reserve your hotel room. Groups of 3 or 4 students who know they want to share a hotel room can request student housing.

Not an NCFR student member? Become a member at our student rate

Register early for these opportunities. Student aide slots are limited and discounted hotels for groups of students are available on a first-come/first-served basis!

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Towson University Changes Department Name to 'Family Science'

NCFR is pleased to announce that Towson University has changed the name of its department in the College of Liberal Arts to the Department of Family Science. The previous name was Department of Family Studies and Community Development. The department also changed the name of its minor to Family Science (previously Family Studies).

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If your department is considering a name change to include 'Family Science', NCFR has sample documents and resources that other schools have successfully used to make their case. ACCESS RESOURCES >>

NCFR Member News
Cheers to NCFR Members

NCFR wishes to congratulate the following members on their accomplishments:

Eboni J. Baugh, Ph.D., CFLE, and Alan C. Taylor, Ph.D., CFLE, were both promoted to full professor at East Carolina University.
Mariana K. Falconier, Ph.D., and Amy B. Lewin, Ph.D., were both among 15 faculty honored at the 2024 Maryland Research Excellence Celebration.
Tanner Kilpatrick, Ph.D., received the Jerry P. Wren "Outstanding Service Award" at the 2024 spring awards ceremony at the University of Maryland.
Sandy Lookabaugh, Ph.D., was the 2024 recipient of the Ray Martinez Award for Teaching Excellence at East Carolina University.
Shardé McNeil Smith, Ph.D., is lead author of a new study looking at the interpersonal effects of discrimination on Black parents and their adolescent children.

NCFR Awards & Recognition

Dawn Cassidy CFLE Special Recognition Award
Nominate or Self-Nominate by Sept. 1

Each year, NCFR recognizes a Certified Family Life Educator (CFLE) who has demonstrated exceptional effort in promoting, supporting, or improving the CFLE credential or program.

The 2023 recipient was Dawn Cassidy, M.Ed., CFLE, and the award name was changed in her honor.

Please consider nominating a deserving colleague or applying for this year's award yourself! Nominations or applications are due by Sept. 1, and involve completing an application form, writing a statement of impact, a letter of support, and providing a vita or résumé.

NOMINATE OR SELF-NOMINATE

NCFR Awards and Recognition
NCFR Seeks Nominations for 2024 Fellows

Nominations due Sept. 15

Fellow status in NCFR is an honor awarded to living members of NCFR on the basis of their outstanding contributions to Family Science. Nominations of all family scholars and professionals who have made contributions to the family field are encouraged.

Among the recognized areas of contributions are scholarship, teaching, outreach, practice, and professional service, including service to NCFR. Nominees must be nominated by another NCFR member.

Please submit your nomination materials by Sept. 15.

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Call for Articles | CFLE Network

Coaching as Part of Family Life Education
Submit Your Proposal by Sept. 15

Parent coaching is a growing part of Family Life Education. NCFR wants to hear from CFLEs who are using coaching in their work with parents and families.

Examples of potential topics include:

The value of coaching as part of FLE work
Your story of how you are coaching parents
The challenges you have addressed as you support families
Tips and/or resources that you have found to help you coach families
How you use data or research to support your work as a coach

Authors are invited to contribute to the fall 2024 issue of CFLE Network on the theme Coaching as Part of Family Life Education.

The submission deadline is Sept. 15. Please review the author guidelines. When you submit your article, use our CFLE Network Article Submission Form.

Contact the CFLE Network Editor Beth Magistad, Ph.D., CFLE, with questions or for more information.

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Call for Submissions | Family Focus
The Psychological Impact of Privilege
Proposal Deadline Nov. 20

Family life provides early learning experiences to create and maintain healthy relationships with other people, an important component of health and well-being. Yet family life experiences are influenced by one’s social address, which includes characteristics of one’s identity (e.g., race, religion, sexuality, class). Social address is associated with social advantages, or privileges, that influence family life experiences.

For this issue of Family Focus, the editor invites you to consider the psychological impact of social advantages that promote exclusion, injustice, and isolation. Specifically, in which ways does privilege disrupt the ability of individuals, families, and society to create and maintain healthy relationships?

Prospective authors should submit their proposals by Nov. 20 using the online submission form. All authors will be notified by Dec. 2, and articles are due Jan. 10, 2025. Contact the editor with questions.

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Call for Articles | CFLE Network

Cultivating Cultural Humility in Family Life Education
Submit Your Proposal by Dec. 15

Cultural humility involves self-reflection, an understanding that one’s own culture is not inherently superior, and appreciation of and a willingness to learn from the experiences of people from other backgrounds and cultures with the goal of authentic relationship building. The winter 2025 issue of CFLE Network will explore and expand on cultural humility in the context of Family Life Education (FLE). Articles are sought exploring “why” and “how” Family Life Educators should and can cultivate cultural humility in their work.

Examples of potential topics include:

The value of cultural humility as part of FLE work
Research supporting the importance of cultivating cultural humility in FLE
Your story of how you are cultivating your own cultural humility
The successes and/or challenges you have addressed as you support families on their journey towards cultural humility
Tips and/or resources that you have found to help you in this work
Differing perspectives on this topic (e.g. student/teacher; program leader/program participant)

The submission deadline is Dec. 15. Please review the author guidelines. When you submit your article, use our CFLE Network Article Submission Form.

Contact the CFLE Network Editor Beth Magistad, Ph.D., CFLE, with questions or for more information.

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NCFR Journals
New NCFR Research, Aug. 11 - Aug. 17

Keep up with the latest research from all three of NCFR's scholarly journals advancing Family Science — Journal of Marriage and Family (JMF), Family Relations: Interdisciplinary Journal of Applied Family Science (FR), and Journal of Family Theory & Review (JFTR).

New early-view articles published between Aug. 11 and Aug. 17 across NCFR's journals can be found on the NCFR website.

NCFR members with journal subscriptions have access to the full text of articles on the journals section of the website.

Explore our tips and strategies ahead of submitting your manuscript for publication in an NCFR journal.

CFLE Service Opportunity

5 Positions Open: CFLE Academic Program Review (APR) Committee
Apply by Sept. 11

NCFR is currently seeking five family professionals to serve as new committee members for terms beginning in 2025.

The Certified Family Life Educator (CFLE) Academic Program Review Committee consists of approximately 10 appointed volunteer members who evaluate university and college applications for CFLE program approval and renewal. Term lengths run two years beginning Jan. 1, 2025, with the option to extend one year at a time up to four years.

More information in terms of qualifications, position responsibilities, and the application process can be found on the NCFR website linked below.

FIND OUT MORE / APPLY

Upcoming NCFR Webinar

Integrating Adult Learning Principles into Family Life Education Practices
Tuesday, Aug. 27 / 11 a.m. – Noon CT
Presented by: Mackenzie Johnson, M.S., CFLE

Despite most professors and Family Life Educators having a primary job responsibility of educating adults, many find themselves with minimal training on the basic principles of adult learning. Given the significant amount of time education professionals spend developing, implementing, and evaluating educational content for learners, there is a clear need for a deeper understanding of the foundational concepts of adult education. This webinar is designed to bridge that gap by providing participants with a strong base of adult learning science from which they can make informed decisions about how to enhance their own teaching methods.

In this webinar, Mackenzie Johnson, M.S., CFLE, will provide practical strategies for how to engage with adult learners appropriately and effectively across nearly any delivery format or educational setting.

Approved for 1 hour of CFLE continuing education

NCFR members receive discounts on webinars / Become a member

NCFR Webinar

Strategies for Teaching Family Life Education Methodology
Thursday, Sept. 12 / 11 a.m. – Noon CT
Presented by: Chance A. Bell, Ph.D., CFLE

Effective Family Life Educators can create programs that meet the needs of those they serve and utilize best practices drawn from rigorous research. This webinar will be an excellent resource for those who teach or will teach Family Life Education methodology courses.

In this webinar, Chance A. Bell, Ph.D., CFLE, will provide participants with an understanding of how to develop effective Family Life Education programs as well as integrating AI as a design tool.

Approved for 1 hour of CFLE continuing education

NCFR members receive discounts on webinars / Become a member

Next Teaching Tuesday

The Need for Cultural Humility in Classrooms
Tuesday, Sept. 17 / Noon – 1 p.m. CT
Free for NCFR members to attend / Become a member
Presenter: Dee Hill-Zuganelli, Ph.D.

Cultural humility emphasizes an ongoing process of continual learning and critical self-reflection to work effectively with diverse families and communities, and challenge institutions to take accountability for their practices. Students are expected to encounter unfamiliar situations at the start of the cultural humility process and are assumed to handle challenges proactively. Today’s restriction of diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) initiatives requires Family Science students to seek additional support to stay motivated for continual learning.

During this Teaching Tuesday, Dee Hill-Zuganelli, Ph.D., will share teaching and supportive strategies to address such barriers in building cultural humility.

After a brief presentation, participants will have the opportunity to discuss:

the fit of Family Science courses into the cultural humility framework;
overcoming stumbling blocks encountered in the learning process;
how to stay dedicated and support oneself as anti-DEI initiatives unfold.

REGISTER TO ATTEND

NCFR members can access past recordings of Teaching Tuesdays. If you would like to be a future session facilitator, contact Jessica Oswald.

Next CFLE Conversations

Addressing Burnout: Personal, Professional, and Societal
Wednesday, Sept. 25 / 2 p.m. – 3 p.m. CT
Facilitator: SaraKay Smullens, LCSW, CFLE
Free for CFLEs / Renew your CFLE Credential

Are you a CFLE interested in the topic of burnout? Join SaraKay Smullens, LCSW, CFLE, for the September CFLE Conversation to discuss burnout on a personal, professional, and societal level.

This networking event is free for CFLEs.

RESERVE YOUR SEAT

If you are interested in facilitating a future CFLE Conversation, contact Jessica Oswald.

OneOp Webinar

Strengthening Health, Wellness, and Financial Security Through Total Force Fitness
Thursday, August 29 / 11 a.m. – Noon ET

Join OneOp, a free and open-access multidisciplinary professional development resource for providers serving military families, for their webinar. Total Force Fitness focuses on the service member’s entire health throughout their career. Total Force Fitness focuses on enhancing eight dimensions of wellness for service members. This webinar discusses the financial fitness dimension and how economic insecurity can affect the other wellness dimensions including nutritional fitness. Additionally, this webinar will highlight initiatives to support financial fitness and food security.

Approved for 1 hour of CFLE continuing education

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Video of the Week

The Daily Blend w/ AC: Tashel Bordere, Ph.D.

This week's Zippy video recognizes and comes ahead of National Grief Awareness Day (Aug. 30). NCFR member, Tashel Bordere, Ph.D., CT, joins host, Adonica Coleman on "The Daily Blend with AC." In this video, Dr. Bordere shares her passion for helping others—particularly children—deal with death and grief.

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Do you have a video of a local news story from your area? Email a link to Kristal Johnson and maybe we will feature it in Zippy News!

New Employment Opportunities

Employers: Get your job opening included in Zippy News by posting it in
NCFR's online Jobs Center! Get started here.

Lecturer, Non-Tenure Track, Child and Family Studies
Baylor University

Baylor University seeks to fill a full-time lecturer position in Child and Family Studies. This is a non-tenure track, renewable, full-time, benefits-eligible, teaching-focused position. The successful candidate will mentor students, teach undergraduate courses in areas such as human development, parenting education and theory, and family development theories. The candidate will potentially start Aug. 2025.

Location: Waco, Texas
Required Education: Master's degree in human development, family studies, or a closely related field
Application Deadline: Oct. 15, 2024

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Advanced Assistant/Associate Professor – Adult Development and Aging
Virginia Tech

The Department of Human Development and Family Science at Virginia Tech announces an opening for a tenure-track advanced assistant/associate professor with a specialization in adult development and aging. Successful candidates should have a strong, demonstrated record of externally funded research, peer-reviewed publications, and innovative teaching. The selected candidate will maintain a program of externally funded research and peer-reviewed publications, teach graduate and/or undergraduate courses, advise students, committee participation and service, engage in community outreach, and provide professional service to the field.

Location: Blacksburg, Virginia
Required Education: Doctorate in human development, psychology, or a closely related field
Application Deadline: Open until filled; application review begins Oct. 11 or until the position is filled

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Assistant Professor in Human Development and Family Sciences
Texas Tech University

The Department of Human Development and Family Sciences at Texas Tech University invites applications for a full-time, 9-month tenure-track assistant professor. Applicants are expected to have experience teaching, an established record of publishing, a demonstrated record of service, as well as experience and/or potential in outreach and community engagement. Further, applicants should have experience working with diverse student populations at the undergraduate and/or graduate level on an individual basis or across the areas of teaching, research/creative activity, and service. The candidate will potentially start Sept. 1, 2025.

Location: Lubbock, Texas
Required Education: Doctorate in human development and Family Sciences or a related discipline
Application Deadline: Sept. 30, 2024

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President
Institute for Clinical Social Work

The Board of Trustees and President Search Committee of the Institute for Clinical Social Work (ICSW) invites applications for the position of president. The successful candidate must have a commitment to psychodynamic education and an ability to authentically promote the Institute's values. Additionally, applicants with strong leadership and management experience outside of higher education are encouraged to apply. The candidate will potentially begin early 2025.

Location: Chicago, Illinois
Required Education: Doctorate preferred (PhD, PsyD, DSW, EdD or other professional doctorate); or a professional master's degree
Application Deadline: Oct. 9

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