Meet Virginia Zuiker
Office
299E McNeal Hall
Phone
(612) 625-4225
Mailing Address
Mail Code 6140
290 McNeal Hall
1985 Buford Avenue
St Paul, MN 55108-6140
Additional Information
Virginia Zuiker
Associate Professor
(Ph.D., Ohio State University)
Scholarly Interests
- Personal and Family Finance
- Family Financial Counseling
- Family Economics
- Family Decision-making
- Economic Well-being of Families
- Family Resource Management
- Home-based Employment
- Hispanic Family Life
Degrees
Ohio State University,
Columbus, OH
Ph.D. Family Resource Management, Family &
Consumer Economics
Minors, Counseling Psychology & Statistics
Texas Tech University,
Lubbock, TX
M.S. Home Economics with an emphasis in
Consumer Studies & Management
University of North Texas,
Denton, TX
B.S. Home Economics Education
Honors & Awards
2006 Invited panelist at the 2003 & 2005 National Minority Business Owners Surveys (2003 & 2005 NMBOS) conference at Baruch College in New York. This event was hosted by the College=s Lawrence N. Field Center for Entrepreneurship with supporting funds from the Ewing Marion Kauffman Foundation.
2006 One of twenty scholars invited to participate in the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill Research Conference on Entrepreneurship Among Minorities and Women funded by the E. M. Kauffman Foundation, June 2006.
2005 One of twenty scholars invited to participate in the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill Entrepreneurship Boot Camp funded by the E. M. Kauffman Foundation, July 2005.
Teaching & Learning
FSoS 1301: Cash or Credit: You Need to Know
FSoS 3101: Personal and Family Finance
FSoS 4106: Family Resource Management
FSoS 4153: Family Financial Counseling
Research & Discovery
Economic Well-being of Diverse Families Residing in the United States: This research agenda is to understand the economic well-being of diverse families residing in the United States, as a whole, and in Minnesota. Specifically, this research examines economic and management issues that affect individuals and families well being. This research project examines the self-employed versus wage and salary earners, family businesses owners, and financial management issues that affect individuals and families economic well-being.
Family Businesses: Research focuses on the factors at the intersection of the family and business systems that affect the viability of family businesses, especially areas and levels of tension.
Mexican Agricultural Workers in Minnesota: A Study of Transnational Work and Family Issues – This bi-national research and outreach project, funded by the United States Department of Agriculture, studies the transnational work and family issues of Mexican agricultural workers in southern Minnesota and their families in Minnesota and Mexico. The goals of the project also include developing faculty and graduate students competencies in cross-cultural and cross-national research methodology and collaboration, developing educational programs for use in the community and in the classroom, and developing public policy related to remittances in the financial services sector.
Rural Families Speak: Tracking the well-being and functioning of rural low-income families in the context of welfare reform. The Minnesota state team is one of 17 state teams working together on this very important societal issue.
Tracking Changes in Minnesota's Diverse Families: Tracking Changes in Quality of Life Among Minnesota's Diverse Families project members are teaming with community leaders from across Minnesota's diverse ethnic and regional groups. They are working to create a research project designed to help better understand diverse family strengths that lead to improvements in quality of life. Families representing five racial/ethnic groups (African American, Hispanic, Asian, American Indian, and European American) are the focus of the project.
Collaborative Center for the Study of Families in Diverse Contexts: The mission of Center is to better understand family life and strengthen family well-being, for all citizens, especially those who are from culturally, racially and ethnically diverse and often-disadvantaged groups, through discovery, scholarship and public engagement.
Long Term Care Insurance Employee Decision Making: This project focuses on examining individual and family level long-term care risk management decision making processes and outcomes.
Outreach & Engagement
University of Minnesota
Senate Committee: Advisory Committee on Athletics, 2007 to present
Senate Committee: Faculty Affairs, 2005 to present
Endowed Chairs Task Force, Committee Member, 2006
Academic Sick and Disability Task Force, Committee, Member, 2006
President's Faculty Multicultural Research Award, Review Panel Member, 2007; 2000
President's Distinguished Faculty Mentor Program, 1998-2006
College of Education and Human Development
Honor and Awards Committee, Member 2007
Scholarship Committee, Member 2006
Family Social Science
Welcome Weekend Committee for Graduate Admissions, Member, 2007
Awards and Scholarship Committee, Chairperson, 2006-2007
Curriculum Committee, Member 2006
Janice Hogan's Retirement Celebration Committee, Member 2005-2006
Colloquium Series Committee, Chairperson, 2205-2006
Selected Publications
Books
Olson, P.D., Zuiker, V.S., Danes, S.M., Stafford, K., Heck, R.K.Z., & Duncan, K. (In press). Impact of the family and business on family business sustainability: Vol. X (pp. XXX). In V. Gupta (Ed.), Family Business Models Around the World, Hyderabad: ICFAI University Press.
Refereed Journal Publications
Katras, M.J., Zuiker, V.S., & Bauer, J.W. (2004). Private safety net: childcare resources from the perspective of rural low-income families. Family Relations, 53 (1), 201-209.
Kwon, H.K., Zuiker, V.S., & Bauer, J.W. (2004). Factors associated with the poverty status of Asian immigrant householders. Journal of Family and Economic Issues. 25(1), 101-120.
Refereed Conference Proceedings
Zuiker, V.S., Ruhe, V., Cohen, B., Lundberg, M., Gudmunson, C., & Egge, J. (2006). Using case studies in large enrollment courses: A comparison of two methods. In D.C. Bagwel1, Proceedings of the Association for Financial Counseling and Planning Education, 127.
Zuiker, V.S., Katras, M.J., Olson, P.D., & Montalto, C.P. (2005). Taking a closer look: Differences in earnings between Hispanic females self-employed and Hispanic females wage and salary earners. The Mexican International Family Strengths Conference, Cuernavaca, Morelos, Mexico.
Zuiker, V.S. & Bird, C. (2005). FSoS 1301: Cash or credit: You need to know. Course Design Showcase. Annual Conference Distance Teaching and Learning. University of Wisconsin-Madison.
Selected Refereed Conference Presentations
Zuiker, V.S., Cohen, B., Ruhe, V., Lundberg, M., Gudmunson, C., & Egge, J. (2006, November). A collaborate approach to redesigning a large enrollment course using case studies. Paper presented at the Annual International Society for the Scholarship of Teaching and Learning 2006 Conference, Washington D.C.
Bird, C., Zuiker, V.S., & Bauer, J.W. (2006, November). Life Quality: Parenting Performance and Economic Strain. National Council on Family Relations conference in Minneapolis, MN.
Invited Research Presentations
Zuiker, V.S. (2006, October). Invited Panelist at Baruch College Lawrence N. Field Center for Entrepreneurship 2003 & 2005 National Minority Business Owner Surveys (2003 & 2005 NMBOS) Conference at New York City, New York. State of the field of minority entrepreneurship specifically on Hispanic/Latina(o) businesses. Other panelist included Edward G. Rogoff, Ph.D., Professor of Management and Academic Director, Lawrence N. Field Center for Entrepreneurship; & Ivan Light, Professor, Ph.D. University of California, Berkeley in the Department of Sociology.
Zuiker, V.S. (2006, August). Ethics in counseling. Invited presenter at the Homeownership Counselor Conference in Bloomington, Minnesota sponsored by the Minnesota Home Ownership Center.
Zuiker, V.S. (2005, November). Publishing student papers at AFCPE. Annual meeting of the Association of Financial Counseling and Planning Education, Scottsdale, AZ, November 2005.