Biography
Dr. Rachel Arocho is an Associate Professor of Family Science at Utah Valley University and Department Chair of the Social and Behavioral Sciences Department. Prior to joining UVU in 2019, she was a Postdoctoral Scholar at the Carolina Population Center of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Dr. Arocho earned her Doctorate in Human Development and Family Science, with specializations in Demography and Quantitative Research Methods, from The Ohio State University. She also holds a Master of Science degree in Human Development and Family Science from The Ohio State University and a Bachelor of Science degree in Family, Consumer, and Human Development from Utah State University, which she earned from the Uintah Basin Regional Campus. Dr. Arocho is a Certified Family Life Educator through the National Council on Family Relations and a Senior Fellow of Advance HE.
At UVU, Dr. Arocho has taught introductory family science, research methods, family demography, Stronger Families Project Internship, and fertility. Her original research spans multiple areas of family science but tends to converge into three main themes: (1) expectations and experiences of marriage, cohabitation, and divorce; (2) the development of individuals conceived by and families formed using medically assisted reproduction; and (3) teaching and learning in family science classrooms, including family life education training.
