Carol Young
Title/Academic Rank:
Instructor & Extension Specialist, Financial Management (.4), School of Family Studies and Human Services
Departments & Academic Units:
Contact Info:
343E Justin Hall
(785) 532-1943
Areas of Specialization:
- Personal and family financial management
- Program design and implementation
- Collaboration to build community or system capacity
- Cross-cultural and multi-ethnic proficiency development
- Leadership development
Education:
- B.S. in education, vocational emphasis, Emporia State University
- M.Ed., Wichita State University
Short Biography:
I give subject matter support to K-State Research and Extension agents who teach financial education in all regions of the state. The work identifies current financial concerns of Kansans; develops educational strategies to help people strengthen financial knowledge and skills to improve current and future personal financial security. Kansas Saves is a major effort aimed at encouraging people across Kansas to increase savings and reduce debt.
Currently also Project Manager (.4) for a national CSREES sponsored Change Agents States for Diversity Project. State Coordinators representing executive-level administrators in 19 Land grant universities across 14 states are charged with developing models and system-level strategies to support increased diversity in higher education institutions.
I have extensive KSU Extension educator and administrative experience. In an Associate Professor (Emeritus), College of Agriculture appointment in the K-State Research & Extension Center, Garden City, I advised and trained off-campus Extension personnel and volunteers in the southwest quarter of Kansas. To support educational programs targeting families, youth and communities I accepted University roles, both on and off-campus, led policy-planning groups, professional organizations, academic and community-level committees. The SW Kansas region leads national growing diversity trends in rural America due to food production jobs. I led multi-state efforts training professionals and leaders struggling to cope with the community changes which were documented by a major Ford Foundation study that continues to serve as a resource. This community capacity building experience gave me personal growth, rich interaction with noteworthy researchers, a base of information to work with as an educational practitioner, and a renewed commitment of the critical need to help people strengthen personal financial competencies.