Dean's Student Advisory Group
Career Night Participant Biography
Gloria Cannon
(B.S. Home Economics, 1974; M.A. Liberal Studies, 1994)
Consultant, Family and Consumer Sciences Education
Career Technical and Adult Education/Center for Curriculum and Assessment
The Ohio Department of Education
25 South Front Street, MS 606
Columbus, OH 43215
(614) 466-3046
Gloria.cannon@ode.state.oh.us
First job out of college: Food Service Unit Manager, Borden, Inc.
Gloria Cannon has enjoyed more than 25 successful years as a manager and administrator, focusing on partnerships among education systems, business and industry, and community and family. Beginning her career as a food service unit manager for Borden, Inc., she managed sales and marketing for a profitable wholesale product line in a twenty-state territory. For six years she served as a public health educator and nutritionist for the Women Infants and Children (W I C) Program. From mid-1988 to 1994, she worked at The Ohio State University in the Young Scholars Program as its Regional Program Director. In this role, she implemented programs to increase the university's enrollment of minority students; these efforts resulted in participant growth from 200 to 2,000 students and their families. During 2001, she was also a lecturer in the College of Human Ecology. For two years she was a Minority Student Retention Associate in the College of Food, Agricultural, and Environmental Sciences, where she served as an adviser to O S U's student chapter of M A N R R S (Minorities in Agriculture and Natural Resource Related Sciences). Gloria then moved to OSU Extension to coordinate statewide recruitment for Family and Consumer Sciences, 4-H Youth Development, community, and agriculture and natural resources. She also coordinated career fairs for college and professional organizations, internships and special events and provided statewide leadership and consulting for E E O counselors, civil rights compliance, and diversity committees. In 2001, Gloria left Ohio State to consult for Family and Consumer Sciences Education in the Ohio Department of Education, where she designs and monitors family and consumer science educational programs, serves on the statewide No Child Left Behind committee, and delivers technical assistance for High Schools That Work and Making Schools Work school improvement and reform initiatives. She is also responsible for developing policy, curriculum, assessment, and content standards. Since 1997 she has been the C E" O of the Family Relations and Human Development Resource Network of Prosperity Enterprises & Associates, for which she provides family relations and human development counseling. She maintains a host of professional affiliations and volunteers for Children's Hospital.
