Carol L. Anderson, associate director of Cornell Cooperative Extension, was installed as the president-elect of the American Association of Family and Consumer Sciences (AAFCS) at the association's annual meeting in Atlanta earlier this month.

Anderson will serve as president-elect until July 1999, when she will become president until July 2000.

The AAFCS, with a membership of 14,600, is recognized as the comprehensive and integrative source of knowledge and primary voice focusing on family, individual and community well-being. Former Cornell professors of home economics/human ecology who have served as presidents of this association include Martha Van Rensselaer, who was president from 1914 to 1916, and Olga Brucher, who was president from 1958 to 1960.

Anderson, who has been at Cornell since 1980, has extensive experience in program development, strategic planning and multidisciplinary programming with human ecology, 4-H youth development and agriculture. She has been involved in policy education that encourages and develops citizen participation in issues of importance to children, youth and families in their various environments, such as work, home and community. She has supported multidisciplinary programming related to at-risk children, youth and families that builds on strengths and assets. Anderson has served on numerous national extension committees, including one on organization and policy and its budget subcommittee. She also co-chaired a national committee charged with creating a strategic plan for extension.

She received her B.S. and M.S. degrees from the University of Wisconsin-Madison and a Ph.D. from Iowa State University.