FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE – Feb. 4, 2016 CONTACT: Christie Boxer, cboxer@adrian.edu Council on Contemporary Families Honors Dan Carsen (WBHM & Southern Education Desk) and Ashley Cleek (Al Jazeera America) for Outstanding Coverage of Family Issues (2016) Austin, TX–The Council on Contemporary Families (CCF) is pleased to present its Twelfth Annual Media Awards at 4:15pm […]
Topics of Expertise: Immigrant, Mixed Status & Transnational Families / Race, Ethnicity & CultureCCF’s 2016 Conference March 4-5, 2016 Families as They Really Are: Demographics, Disparities, and Debates AUSTIN, TEXAS Worried about getting lost on UT campus? There’s an app for that! You can find an interactive map of the university and/or download an app to help keep you from losing your way at: http://maps.utexas.edu/#/MAG Parking: UT has […]
On Friday, April 10th, The University of Miami’s School of Education and Human Development (SEHD) hosted their annual Community Well-Being Forum entitled: The New Public Intellectual.
Walla Walla,WA/October 21–In the wake of widespread layoffs of journalists who cover family issues and the closure of several journalism centers that have traditionally featured new family research, the Council on Contemporary Families held a meeting of their national board over the weekend in Walla Walla, Washington, hosted by Whitman College. The agenda included the election of a new Co-Chair and discussion of how to further expand the dissemination of new research to the press and public in the context of the current crisis in print media.
2014 marks the 25th anniversary of the World Wide Web. Arguably, no invention has changed lives more drastically in one generation, or spawned new applications for work, love and play more rapidly than the Web. This made technology a central topic for The Council on Contemporary Families in their 17th annual conference, to be held April 25-26 at the University of Miami at the Newman Alumni Center, located at 6200 San Amaro Dr., Coral Gables, Florida. Learn more about this year’s conference in this press release.
The Council on Contemporary Families (CCF) is pleased to present its Twelfth Annual Media Awards at 12:30pm on Friday, April 25th at the Newman Alumni Center, University of Miami, Miami, FL, at the CCF annual conference, Families as They Really Are: How Digital Technologies are Changing the Way Families Live and Love. The media awards honor outstanding journalism that contributes to the public understanding of contemporary family issues.
MIAMI, FL–Holidays are a great time for family fun. But they also pose many challenges for individuals and families, from coping with in-laws and former spouses, dating over the holidays, interfaith families, family rituals, and using technology to keep families together. This time of year CCF fields many calls from journalists reporting on how families […]
Abstract Submission Deadline is November 24, 2013 (11:59 p.m. Pacific). Draft Poster Deadline is January 10, 2014 (11:59 p.m. Pacific). Those interested in presenting a poster on a topic related to families and technology as part of the Poster Session must submit a 50-word abstract via email to Valerie Adrian (Valerie.Adrian@email.wsu.edu). Researchers, community members and […]
The Council on Contemporary Families (CCF) is pleased to present its Eleventh Annual Media Awards at 12:00 on Friday, April 5th at the Newman Alumni Center, University of Miami, Miami, FL, at the CCF annual conference, Immigrant Families as They Really Are. The media awards honor outstanding journalism that contributes to the public understanding of contemporary family issues. Honorees are invited to speak for five minutes on emerging issues affecting American families and how CCF members and supporters can help the media cover these stories effectively.
The Council on Contemporary Families (CCF) is pleased to present its Tenth Annual Media Awards on Friday, April 27, at the CCF Annual Conference in Chicago, IL. The awards honor outstanding journalism that contributes to the public understanding of contemporary family issues. Awards will be presented at a 5 p.m. reception at the Crowne Plaza Metro Chicago Hotel, where the conference is located. Award recipients will speak briefly about their work and the ways in which scholars and practitioners can help them advance the conversation about the needs of American families today.
Holidays are a great time for family fun. But they also pose many challenges for families, from coping with in-laws and former spouses, to fending off awkward questions about partners and children (or the lack of same), to avoiding over-indulgence in food, drinking, and gift-giving. And the lasting effects of the Great Recession pose more […]
CONTACT: Pamela Anne Quiroz, pamelaquiroz@comcast.net, 708 386-2625 The Council on Contemporary Families (CCF) is pleased to present its Ninth Annual Media Awards on Friday, April 8, at the CCF Annual Conference in Chicago, IL. The awards honor outstanding journalism that contributes to the public understanding of contemporary family issues. Awards will be presented at the CCF luncheon on Friday, […]
CONTACT: Ashton Applewhite, applewhite@earthlink.net, 646-644-4040 The Council on Contemporary Families (CCF) is pleased to present its Eighth Annual Media Awards on Friday, April 16, at its at the CCF Annual Conference at Augustana College in Rock Island, Illinois. Winners will speak for five minutes on emerging issues affecting American families. The awards ceremony is followed by […]
CONTACT: Virginia Rutter, vrutter@gmail.com, 508.626.4863 CHICAGO–How are families really doing? At CCF, family researchers deliver great stories about women and the economy, about men and housework, about the recession and families, and about how sex has changed for all of us, to mention a few topics we’ve addressed in recent years. But, how do we make use of all this […]
