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Joy Jacobs, Specialist, has been an instructor and undergraduate adviser in the Department of Family & Child Ecology since 1998. She teaches between 300 and 375 students per semester in one of the department’s introductory courses, “The Individual, Marriage, and the Family" and is also a faculty co-leader for the Hawaii Study Away Program. She is involved in a project funded by the U.S. Department of Education, assisting Migrant Head Start teachers in Michigan who are working on four-year college degrees.
Ms. Jacobs is currently faculty adviser for MSU’s chapter of Kappa Omicron Nu National Honor Society, and is past president of the Michigan Association of Family and Consumer Sciences, of the Lansing Area Home Economists in Action, and the MSU Extension Women’s Club. She also served on the Board of the Human Ecology Alumni Association.
Ms. Jacobs has a B.S. in Home Economics from Illinois State University and an M.A. in Home Economics Education from Michigan State University. She and her husband Lee, a professor at MSU, have four grown daughters: a Marriage and Family therapist, a chemical engineer, a social worker, and a packaging engineer. Three of their daughters are married, and they have three grandchildren.
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