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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
- 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 and Community Services (Distance)
- 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
- Phi Kappa Phi selects Human Ecology standouts
- A dozen College of Human Ecology students were among the nearly 100 at Kansas State University selected for membership in Phi Kappa Phi, the nation’s oldest, largest and most selective all-discipline honor society. They are second semester juniors in the upper 7.5 percent of their class, seniors in the upper 10 percent of their class, [...]
- CHE names 13 outstanding seniors
- Thirteen students have been named outstanding seniors in the College of Human Ecology. They were selected by their professors for their academic achievement, professional potential, leadership, participation and service. They will be recognized at the college’s Graduation Honors and Student Awards Celebration at 4 p.m. Friday, May 17, in Leadership Studies Building on campus. From [...]
- Dean Moxley to be honored at retirement reception Thursday
- Virginia Moxley is a fifth-generation Kansan with three degrees from Kansas State University and a fierce dedication to the people-centered, science-based mission of human ecology. She retires as dean of the College of Human Ecology in June after serving the college for more than 25 years. A reception in her honor will be in Hoffman [...]