TAFCS Students

The Student Section is comprised of those preprofessional or graduate college students who affiliate with both AAFCS and TAFCS by paying appropriate annual dues. Assistance with membership dues is available through our HUGS program funds. These funds are also available for other designated incentives approved by the TAFCS Board to promote and encourage Student Section membership. For a special HUGS student membership application, contact Sandra Marquez-Hall at sandramarquezhall@sbcglobal.net.

For more information on Family and Consumer Sciences programs at universities in Texas and check out the state FCS Alliance.

The Chair of the Student Section is elected at the TAFCS Annual Meeting, and begins a one-year term on the TAFCS Board of Directors following the election. The primary duties of the TAFCS Student Section Chair include the following:

Funds are available to assist Student Section members with their AAFCS membership dues. These funds are also available for other designated incentives approved by the TAFCS Board to promote and encourage Student Section membership. Refer to the HUGS Student Membership Application, or contact Sandra Marquez-Hall at sandramarquezhall@sbcglobal.net or 806-795-1463 for more information.

The Student Membership Award goes to the local Student Section chapter of TAFCS which increases their membership numbers from the previous year by the largest percentage over and above 20 percent. It includes one complimentary hotel room for two nights of our TAFCS Annual Meeting for use by the winning local Student Section chapter.

TAFCS offers Student Scholarships annually to TAFCS student members. Award decisions are based on good academic achievement, a positive letter of recommendation, solid character, appropriate professional goals, appropriate preprofessional involvement, and financial need. In order to qualify, students must:

Norma Dagley and Jaylie I.L Beckenhaurer are the scholarship chairs for the Donna Culliton Memorial Scholarship awarded by the North Texas Business Section. Information has been e-mailed with the application form to the college and university contacts for TAFCS.

To qualify for a $500 Donna Culliton Memorial Scholarship, applicants must fulfill the following:

(2) Be majoring in a program in a college, school, or department of family & consumer sciences or a program
in one of the knowledge-based areas of family & consumer sciences.

Application form and transcipt(s) should be postmarked no later than February 1, 2008 to: Jaylie I.L. Beckenhauer, Ph.D., CFCS; Department of Family & Consumer Sciences; Baylor University; One Bear Place 97346; Waco, TX 76798-7346. Letter of recommendation should be mailed directly by the reference to the above address by Febrary 1, 2008. For further information e-mail Norma Dagley fender5016@aol.com or Jaylie_Beckenhauer@baylor.edu

Applicant should mail the completed application form and the transcript(s) postmarked no later than February 1, 2008 to the address below. Separately a letter of recommendation should be sent directly by the author to the address below no later than February 1, 2008.

This award is determined by: career experience, career goals, grade point average in career field, future intentions and goals in TAFCS/AAFCS, personal interview scores, and research in the professional field. Refer to the award application for specific requirements.

2007-2008 TAFCS Student Section Officers, left to right:
Dawn Thomas, Secretary
Jillian Hollis, Vice Chair of Student Development
Celeste Graims, National Officer Candidate
Ashley Wycoff, Vice Chair for Communication
Kathy Becker, State Chair
Jill Rogers, Vice Chair of Programming
Laci Walter, Vice Chair of Organizational Management
Nancy Perez, Treasurer