There has been a great deal of discussion about the Op-Ed piece in the New York Times September 5, 2011 by Helen Zoe Veit, assistant professor of history at Michigan State on her discussion of  Home Economics.  She was then interviewed the next day on NPR regarding her writing. (Please see our two previous blog posts:  Home Ec in the NY Times and Time to Revive Home Ec spurring discussion.) As I have stated many times it is vital that we as FACS professionals keep our programs and the work that we do in the eye of the public for this...

There are two organizations available for FACS professionals: AAFCS American Association of Family and Consumer Sciences and the ACTE Association for Career and Technical Education.  I bring this up because I'd like to encourage any FACS professional to check it out, see what the rest of the "team" is up to and hopefully become involved. I know that in my state of Minnesota, there isn't as much activity as we'd like to see. For those of you that have not recently perused the ACTE web site please take a look and see the great information that the organization provides for each of the...

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