Millie Ferrer-Chancy, Ph.D.

Title

• Interim Dean and Director for Extension

Biography

Millie Ferrer-Chancy is interim dean and director for the Cooperative Extension Service at the University of Florida, Institute of Food and Agricultural Sciences (IFAS).  A native of Puerto Rico, she received her bachelor’s degree from Inter-American University of Puerto Rico. She went on to obtain a master’s degree from New York University and a Ph.D. from Florida State University. 

 Ferrer joined UF/IFAS Extension in 1984 as a family and consumer science agent in Orange County.  In 1997, she accepted a state faculty position in the Department of Family, Youth and Community Sciences at UF.  As a human development specialist, she published extensively in the area of parenting and family development and received numerous state and national awards and recognitions for her scholarly work. She was appointed associate dean and assistant director for Extension in 2005, providing support to the dean for Extension in all aspects of Extension administration.

Appointed interim dean in January 2009, Ferrer will work closely with Extension faculty and administrators to manage the partnership of federal, state, and county governments that form the Extension system in Florida. The University of Florida extension programs are conducted through seventeen academic departments, thirteen research education centers, and sixty-seven county offices.

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