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Direct linkOrphan, Cecilia M.; McClure, Kevin R. – Journal of Research in Rural Education, 2019
Recent media reporting and research suggest that regional comprehensive universities (RCUs) and other postsecondary institutions may play an integral role in the welfare of rural regions, yet empirical research on the regional service of rural postsecondary institutions is limited. The purpose of this study was to examine how a single RCU serves…
Descriptors: Rural Areas, School Community Relationship, Regional Characteristics, Geographic Regions
Carter, Michael V. – Human Services in the Rural Environment, 1988
Looks at Commission on Religion in Appalachia (CORA) programs uniting 23 church denominations behind social and volunteer projects designed to improve quality of rural life. Describes CORA and its projects. (TES)
Descriptors: Church Programs, Community Action, Community Development, Quality of Life
Dykeman, Wilma; Stokely, Jim – 1978
More than 6,600 separate tracts of land, purchased by the citizens of Tennessee and North Carolina and given to the people of the United States in 1934, comprise the Great Smoky Mountains National Park. The history of the Great Smokies is, therefore, a story of people and their home. This volume presents historical vignettes of the groups who…
Descriptors: American Indians, Change, Chronicles, Cultural Background
Download full textCleland, Charles L., Ed. – 1982
The first part of this report contains a case study from each of the eight southern states participating in a late 1970s project which focused primarily on the organization of rural counties for making decisions that affect the well-being of county residents. In the second section, the study counties (identified as low income in 1950) are placed…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Citizen Participation, Community Attitudes, Decision Making
1979
One component of the Appalachian Regional Commission's regional plan process is the annual review and approval of individual state development policies. The state summaries of proposed programs for fiscal year 1979 (for Alabama, Georgia, Kentucky, Maryland, Mississippi, New York, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, South Carolina, Tennessee,…
Descriptors: Child Development Centers, Community Services, Development, Economic Development
