Rural America, Vol. 16, Issue 2

Douglas Bowers, editor

Rural America No. (RA-162) September 2001

About this magazine

All the feature articles in this issue deal with one theme - community colleges. Community colleges have gone through a half-century of significant change, evolving from liberal arts schools preparing students for 4-year colleges to schools more focused on technical and vocational training, often with missions explicitly oriented toward local economic development. Many classes have shifted from the daytime schedule typical of colleges to evening and weekend courses designed for working adults. These changes have been particularly significant for rural areas. Some 40 percent of all community colleges are in rural areas or small towns and, often, they are the only institution of higher learning in the area. Rural America, a quarterly publication of the Economic Research Service, features articles covering a wide range of topics related to rural development as well as updates of rural social and economic trends.

In this report ...

Articles are in Adobe Acrobat PDF format.

• Contents, 66kb
• Foreword, 57kb

  Feature Articles

• Rural Community Colleges: Creating Institutional Hybrids for the New Economy, 132kb
• College and Community in Partnership: The Furniture College at Letterfrack, 105kb
• Rural Colleges as Catalysts for Community Change: The RCCI Experience, 695kb
• Innovation and Replication: Can Community College Successes Be Repeated?, 127kb

  Rural Updates

• Rural Development Policy: New Assistance for Low-Income Areas and Infrastructure, 225kb
• Migration: Nonmetro Outmigration Exceeds Inmigration for the First Time in a Decade, 133kb
• Earnings: Nonmetro Earnings Continue Upward Trend, 93kb
• Farm Household Income and Wealth: Farm Households Are Often Dual-Career, 238kb

  Entire report, 1,322kb

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Updated date: September 2001