Joyce Miles

Lafayette, Ind.
M.S. ’73

Joyce graduated from Purdue University and Florida State University, then began a career teaching home economics for grades 7-12 in Jacksonville, Florida. She retired in 1997 as an education administrator in family and consumer sciences/career and technical education. In retirement, Joyce has volunteered actively with the American Association of Family and Consumer Sciences, co-founding the AAFCS Leadership Academy in 2009. For the AAFCS Centennial Celebration, Joyce committed countless hours and traveled many miles to portray Ellen Richards, the founder of Home Economics, raising over $40,000 to support a Leadership Endowment Fund. Joyce served eight years on the FSU Foundation Board of Trustees, where she was instrumental in forming the Women for FSU, which now has a $500,000 endowment supporting the Women’s Leadership Institute at FSU. Joyce and Bob have two endowed scholarships at Florida State—one in CARE and one in CHS. Joyce and her husband Bob are committed Seminoles even though Joyce only spent one summer semester on campus for grad school. Joyce was a part of the first off-campus College of Education cohort for a Master’s in Vocational Education in 1972. Joyce serves on the Deans Leadership Council for the FSU College of Education, Health & Human Sciences. Joyce and Bob returned to Indiana in 2017, where they are now full-time volunteers for their alma mater, Purdue University.