Student Chapters
Invest in YOUR future. As a student in a discipline dedicated to empowering families, you are eligible for membership in AAFCS/OAFCS. Membership in the American Association of Family and Consumer Sciences (AAFCS) and the Ohio affiliate (OAFCS) is an essential part of investing in your career. As an undergraduate or graduate student member, you can take action now to expand your knowledge and skills outside the classroom.
GIVE A STUDENT A H.U.G.!
The Ohio Student Unit would like to invite your help to sponsor and support a university student for membership in AAFCS. Fill out the form and send it to the FCS program at the university of your choice or send it to:
Meta Van Nostran, Vice-President District Affairs at: vannostr@ohio.edu
to make a match working with the other university advisers.
Click here for the Students ‘HUGS’ Sponsorship Form
AAFCS Membership form is on line here.
As a member of the Pre-professional/Graduate Student Section, you will receive Futurescope, the quarterly newsletter written by and about pre-professionals. Other opportunities as an AAFCS/OAFCS member include:
- Action Newsletter
- Mentoring Avenue
- Professional Development
- Journal of Family and Consumer Sciences
- Family and Consumer Sciences Research Journal
- Publication Opportunities
- Leadership Opportunities
- Ohio Newsletter, The Lamplight
- Scholarships
- Networking with peers nationwide
Colleges and Universities in Ohio with Family and Consumer Sciences Chapters
- Ashland University
- Baldwin Wallace College
- Bluffton College
- Bowling Green State University
- Kent State University
- Mount Vernon Nazarene College
- The Ohio State University
- Ohio University
- University of Akron
- Youngstown State University
OAFCS Pre-Professional/Graduate Student Section Officers
Chair
Catherine Sustersic
Ohio University
cs259907@ohio.edu
Secretary
Rebecca Fahrni
Mount Vernon
becks_1289@yahoo.com
Communication Liason
Emily Meents
Ohio State University
meents.4@buckeyemail.osu.edu
Co-Advisors:
Mrs. Pam Schulze at U Akron schulze@uakron.edu
Mrs. Ruth Dohner at OSU RDohner@ehe.osu.edu
Scholarships
The Ohio Association of Family and Consumer Sciences offers three $1000 scholarships to sophomores or juniors who have completed a minimum of one term with a cumulative grade point average of at least 3.0 on a 4.0 scale and are enrolled in a Family and Consumer Sciences program. Scholarships are paid on a semester or quarter basis directly to the college or university attended.
Applicants must be members of AAFCS/OAFCS. Scholarship applications are available from Ohio Family and Consumer Sciences college and university unit administrators, county extension agents, and the OAFCS scholarship chair.
Minutes from Student Unit