Virginia Zuiker

Degrees

Ph.D., Family Resource Management and Family & Consumer Economics, The Ohio State University
M.S., Consumer Studies and Management, Texas Tech University
B.S., Home Economics Education, University of North Texas

Honors & Awards

2011-2014   Elected to the Board of Directors for the Association of Financial Counseling, Planning, and Education (AFCPE).

2010    Tom H. Swain Campus Recognition Award

2010    Financial Literacy of College Students: Understanding Student Interests in Technology. Minnesota Association of Extension Educators Scholarship Award, Given for exemplar statewide programming with a team approach.

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.

2000    New Career Excellence Award, College of Human Ecology.

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

FSoS 8106: Seminar: Families from an Economic Perspective

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.

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.

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.

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.

Publications

1. Hendrickson, L., Jokela, R., Gilman, J., Croymans, S., Marczak, M., Zuiker, V.S., & Olson, P. (2010). The viability of podcasts in extension education: Financial education for college students, Journal of Extension,  [On-line,]48. Available: http://www.joe.org/joe/2010august/a7.php

2. Shinnar, R.S., Cardon, M.S., Eisenman, M., Zuiker, V.S., & Lee, M.S. (2009).  Immigrant and U.S- born Mexican-owned businesses: Motivations and management.  Journal of Developmental Entrepreneurship. 14(3), 273-295.

3. Olson, P.D., Zuiker, V.S., Danes, S.M., Stafford, K., Heck, R.K.Z., & Duncan, K. (2008). Impact of the family and business on family business sustainability (Chapter 5, pggs. 90-112). In V. Gupta , N. Levenburg, L. Moore, J. Motwani, & T. Swartz (Eds.), Culturally-sensitive Models of Family Business in Anglo Culture: A Compendium using the GLOBE paradigm. Hyderabad: ICFAI University Press.

4. 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.

5. 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.

6. Olson, P. D., Zuiker, V.S., Danes, S. M., Stafford, K., Heck, R. K. Z., & Duncan, K. A. (2003). The impact of the family and the business on family business sustainability.  Journal of Business Venturing, 18 (5), 639-666.

7. Zuiker, V.S., Katras, M.J., Montalto, C.P., Olson, P.D. (2003).  Hispanic self-employment:  Does gender matter?  Hispanic Journal of Behavioral Sciences, 25(1), 73-94.

8. Zuiker, V.S., Lee, Y.G., Olson, P.D., Danes, S.M., VanGuilder Dik,  A.N., & Katras, M.J.   (2002).  Business, family, and resource intermingling characteristics as predictors of cash flow problems in family-owned businesses.  Journal of the Association for Financial Counseling and Planning Education, 13(2), 65-81.

9. Duncan, K., Zuiker, V.S., & Heck, R.K.Z.  (2000). The importance of household management for the business-owning family.  Journal of Family and Economic Issues, 21(3), 287-312.

10. Olson, P.D., Zuiker, V.S., & Montalto, C.P.  (2000).  Self-employed Hispanics and Hispanic wage earners: Differences in earnings.  Hispanic Journal of Behavioral Sciences, 22(1), 114-130.

11. Danes, S.M., Zuiker, V.S., Kean, R., & Arbuthnot, J. (1999).  Predictors of family business tensions and goal achievements.  Family Business Review, 12(3), 241-252.

12. Fan, J.X. & Zuiker, V.S. (1998).  A comparison of household budget allocation patterns between Hispanic Americans and Non-Hispanic White Americans.  Journal of Family and Economic Issues, 19(2), 151-174.

13. Zuiker, V.S.(1998).  Hispanic self-employment in the Southwest:   Rising above the threshold of poverty.  New York:  Garland Publishing, Inc.