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1. Promoting the need for "highly respected scholarship and research."
2. Building partnerships between two-year institutions and four-year programs.
3. Dealing with the growing shortage of FCS teachers in secondary education.
4. Defining our core values to clarify our beliefs.
5. Integrating global concerns.
6. Promoting acceptance of qualitative research.
7. Increasing participation of males in Family and Consumer Sciences.
8. Strengthening and articulating the integrative and holistic perspective of our profession.
9. Promoting hands-on (experiential) learning.
10. Combating the reconfiguration of FCS programs.
11. Building collaborative partnerships for research.
12. Maintaining an appropriate, effective core curriculum.
13. Sharing FCS Internet Courses.
14. Determining allied, affiliated, and related areas for membership in honor societies.
15. Socializing new faculty.
16. Exploring whether colleges and departments of FCS share the same mission and issues given the changes in higher education.
17. Determining questions for a possible FAEIS placement study.
18. Meeting the need for undergraduate assessment.
19. Recruiting and Retaining quality and diversity of students in FCS programs.
20. Determining how to structure and support leadership opportunities so that students choose to become actively involved and develop leadership abilities.
21. Exploring the problem of knowing where we're going when we don't know where we've been.
22. Determining the relevance and importance of policy development and a legislative agenda to our future.
23. Exploring the benefits of having a federation/coalition that would provide a united voice for the Family and Consumer Sciences/Human Ecology/Home Economics/Human Sciences.
24. Dealing with pressure on FCS administrators to be fund raisers.
25. Promoting a course in Communication that builds on common needs of FCS majors and addresses important issues identified in the external trends.
26. Integrating across the teaching, research, and outreach missions.
27. Promoting contributions of critical science to Family and Consumer Sciences.
28. Exploring the role of research in the undergraduate experience.
29. Promoting the value of family as primary transmitters of culture.
30. Exploring the implications of "mass aging" for curriculum development, professional development, and educational delivery strategies.

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