Scholarly society enhancing the research, teaching, and service produced by its members on topics of both intellectual and social significance in the academic discipline of communication.

International association for scholars interested in the study, teaching and application of all aspects of human mediated communication.

NCFR is the premier professional association for understanding families through interdisciplinary research, theory, and practice.

he Groves Conference was begun in 1934 by the late Professor Ernest Groves, who was among the first academicians to give a course in marriage and the family in an established university, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The conferences began with the bringing together of a few teachers and students interested in serious study of the family. It evolved over the years into an interdisciplinary, interprofessional organization of limited invited membership. Its objectives are to work on the leading edges of theory development and empirical research in the field.