Abstract
This research aims to examine how the administrators of the Home Economics-related academic units in American universities and colleges have responded to the 1993 Scottsdale Conference's resolution to change the name of the profession and what problem areas they find with respect to the field of Home Economics.
According to the questionnaire survey we conducted with the cooperation of the American deans and administrators of these courses in September 1995, 61.0% of the respondents supported the name change of the profession from Home Economics (HE) to Family and Consumer Sciences (FCS). The follow-up research in 1998 showed that the number of the academic units at the university/college level employing the terminology, FCS in their names had increased from 20 (1995) to 46 (1998), with the number of the academic units using nomenclature of HE, decreasing from 60 to only 28.
It appears that trends in the field of HE in the United States toward addressing the long-seated problems in terms of professional recognition and identity have been the driving force towards supporting the name change of the profession.
