The School of Family Studies and Human Services
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The School of Family Studies and Human Services (FSHS) offers diversity of academic programs, scholarship, and outreach that address the health and well-being of individuals and families in Kansas, the country, and the world.
The complexity of the School is reflected in the wide range of careers in human services pursued by graduates such as work with families, early childhood education, marriage and family therapy, personal financial planning, and speech-language pathology. Centers of student learning and outreach include:
- Institute of Personal Financial Planning
- Hoeflin Stone House Early Childhood Education Center
- K-State Family Center
- K-State Speech and Hearing Center
- Powercat Financial Counseling Center
- Institute for the Health and Security of Military Families
Students follow career paths that take them all over the world and into numerous types of opportunities. K-State Research and Extension in FSHS is devoted to the development and execution of educational programs and technical information that enhance quality of life.
Academic Programs
Undergraduate degree programs include:
- Communication Sciences and Disorders
- Early Childhood Education (on campus or distance)
- Family Studies and Human Services (on campus, distance, or at Salina)
- Personal Financial Planning
Graduate (M.S.) degree programs include:
- Communication Sciences and Disorders
- Early Childhood Education
- Family Studies
- Life Span Human Development
- Marriage and Family Therapy
- Personal Financial Planning (Distance)
- Youth Development (Distance)
The School of Family Studies and Human Services also offers undergraduate and graduate certificate programs related to conflict resolution, personal financial planning, youth development and an undergraduate minor in Conflict Analysis & Trauma Studies.
Graduate (Ph.D.) degree programs include:
Scholarship
Faculty scholarship (research and grants) often involves student participation and applies to the study of families and evidence-based practices in human services. The School is currently ranked #1 in contracts and grant funding at Kansas State University. The established priorities include:
- Disorders of communication and swallowing
- Families and health
- Heath and security of military families
- Personal and family risk assessment and evaluation
Extension
Extension programs within Family Studies and Human Services address critical issues such as chronic disease and self management, military youth, strategies for adaptive living, as well as strong families and parenting issues.
FSHS News
- Students on China study tour learn to appreciate, understand cultural differences in early childhood education
- The test was in the chicken feet and students passed with honor, according to Bronwyn Fees, associate professor in family studies and human services who lead the study tour to examine early childhood development and education in Southern China in January. While food was not the purpose of the study tour, Fees said that it [...]
- Telefund: a blue ribbon year (Thank you, donors)
- Students, faculty and staff pitched in to pull in $108,274 during this year’s Telefund. Students – at least 233 of them – called alumni and wrote cards to those they couldn’t reach by phone. Nearly 40 faculty and staff showed up to assist and support the students. Last year’s effort raised just over $100,000. The [...]
- Marriage therapist says high-conflict couples have work to do before saying ‘I do’
- Sandra Stith, a professor of marriage and family therapy, has Valentine’s Day advice for couples contemplating commitments and engagement rings: Mix romance with a generous portion of reality. The reality is that relationship problems — drinking, anger, the need to control, hitting — don’t evaporate when couples become engaged or marry, according to Stith, who [...]