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Mardis, Marcia A.; Jones, Faye R.; McClure, Charles R. – Community College Journal of Research and Practice, 2019
In this National Science Foundation Advanced Technician Education program (NSF ATE) project, we aimed to explore factors that would strengthen the rural IT employee workforce and improve educational support related to broadband, telecommunications, and networks in rural settings. Using multiple methods to triangulate rural IT program curricula…
Descriptors: Strategic Planning, Employer Attitudes, Information Technology, Technical Education
Tweeten, Luther G. – 1968
Supported by a grant from the National Science Foundation, this research was conducted to investigate topics concerning the following four aspects of rural poverty: (1) documentation of the dimensions of rural poverty; (2) description of past public programs to raise incomes of the disadvantaged; (3) an outline of some of the strengths and…
Descriptors: Agriculture, Cost Effectiveness, Poverty, Program Evaluation
Southern Rural Development Center, Mississippi State, MS. – 1981
Designed to help researchers pinpoint other professionals whose work might relate to their own, this publication includes the names, addresses, and areas of research of nearly 200 persons involved with research related to the needs of rural development in the Southern region. The researchers listed are from the following states: Alabama, Arkansas,…
Descriptors: Community Development, Human Services, Land Grant Universities, Quality of Life
North Carolina State Univ., Raleigh. Agricultural Experiment Station. – 1988
Agriculture and the rural economic bases in mining, fisheries, forestry, and natural resource extraction are experiencing major social and economic changes. The farm and rural crises of the 1980s are not short-term aberrations, but symptoms of long-term trends that were partially hidden by the relatively good times for agriculture and rural areas…
Descriptors: Agriculture, Experiment Stations, Land Grant Universities, Research and Development
Southern Rural Development Center, Mississippi State, MS. – 1984
The directory of rural development researchers in the South first lists researchers by state for the 13 southern states and Puerto Rico, then by subject area. Research projects (25) of the Southern Rural Development Center since 1975 are also listed. The listing by state covers Alabama (31 researchers), Arkansas (12), Florida (10), Georgia (15),…
Descriptors: College Faculty, Community Development, Higher Education, Human Services
Iowa State Univ. of Science and Technology, Ames. Center for Agricultural and Rural Development. – 1986
This report outlines the activities of the Center for Agricultural and Rural Development (CARD), Iowa State University, for the year ending June 30, 1986. Progress was made in expanding and enhancing the policy research program, which comprises four divisions. The natural resources and conservation program participated with the Soil Conservation…
Descriptors: Agricultural Production, Computer Simulation, Conservation Education, Economic Development