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Faculty


Edna L. McBreen

Professor

Department of Human Development & Family Studies
University of Connecticut
348 Mansfield Road, Unit 2058
Storrs, Connecticut 06269-2058

Phone: Greater Hartford Campus- (860) 570-9084
Storrs: (860) 486-2650
E-Mail: edna.mcbreen@uconn.edu

Educational Background:

Ph. D., Human Service Studies, Cornell University, 1982
M.Ed., Adult and Extension Education, Texas A&M University, 1978
B.S., Family and Consumer Science Education, Cornell University, 1972


Research Interests:

  • Family resource management and family decision-making;
  • The impact of public policy on families in the U.S. and internationally;
  • The role of higher education in enhancing quality of life in the U.S. and the developing world.

Selected Publications:

  • Acker, D.G.; McBreen, E.L.; and Taylor, S., "Women in Higher Education in Agriculture with Reference to Selected Countries in East and Southern Africa," The Journal of Agricultural Education and Extension 5(June, 1998)1, pp. 13-23.
  • McBreen, D.P.; McBreen E.L.; Wu, Z., "China's Economic and Education Reform: A Role for Community Colleges," Community College Journal of Research and Practice 20(May, 1996)3.
  • McBreen, Edna L., "The Global Context of Agriculture," Agriculture and the Undergraduate, Board on Agriculture, National Research Council, National Academy Press, Washington, DC 1992.

Selected Presentations:

  • "Policy Education for Youth and Adults," presented at the Western Governors' Association conference on, "The Land of Wide Open Spaces: Setting an Open Lands Agenda for the West," October 1997, Jackson, Wyoming.
  • "African Needs and U.S. Higher Education Interests," invited speaker at the Symposium on Strengthening the Quality of Higher Education Institutions to Pursue Development, sponsored by the Association Liaison Office to the U.S. Agency for International Development Center for University Cooperation in Development, October 1-2, 1992, Washington, DC.