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Focus areas: Community Resilience, Sustaining Hoosier Communities
Status: Completed
Partnering with the Heart of Jasper, a team of graduate accounting students evaluated Jasper's retail market with the goal that the data from this study would be used to help fill vacant buildings downtown and make use of available grants for...
Focus areas: Quality of Place, Sustaining Hoosier Communities
Status: Completed
Tasked with fostering more economic activity in Downtown Linton, Mark Levin's students in Local Economic Development identified potential businesses to occupy a vacant downtown building in need of rehabilitation, and they assisted the...
Focus areas: Quality of Place
Status: Completed
The CRE partnered with Adrian Starnes and his arts administration seminar to connect his class with two Rural Placemaking Studio participants, Charlestown and Elberfeld. The Center for Rural Engagement reviewed the students' pocket park designs and...
Focus areas: Quality of Place
Status: Completed
The series originated in partnership with three regional communities (Huntingburg, Nashville, and Salem) around the arts and included performances by university groups (music, dance, and theatre); exhibits and screenings (from campus archives,...
Focus areas: Quality of Place
Status: Completed
The Center for Rural Engagement partnered with faculty to research, document, and contextualized homelessness in Greene County with the goal of providing the community with data and policy recommendations to address rural homelessness.
Focus areas: Healthy Hoosier Communities
Status: Completed
The Center for Rural Engagement collaborated with three counties and their Drug-Free Communities local coordinating councils.
Focus areas: Quality of Place
Status: Completed
The IU Maurer School of Law partnered with the Center for Rural Engagement to place students in experiential learning opportunities in rural areas currently lacking legal professionals. This program furthered the efforts of the Indiana Supreme...
Focus areas: Quality of Place
Status: In progress
Rural Placemaking Studio is a partnership between IU Eskenazi School of Art, Architecture + Design and IU Center for Rural Engagement to provide placemaking services to rural communities throughout southern Indiana. The program provides professional...
Focus areas: Quality of Place
Status: Completed
IU's Eskenazi Museum of Art partnered with the Center for Rural Engagement on a program to bring artwork and curriculum to P-12 schools. That partnership also supported a PreK-12 Experiences Manager who developed and oversaw youth art month, youth...
Focus areas: Community Resilience
Status: Completed
This project conducted a needs assessment for two Crawford County schools to chronicle opportunities within the schools to reduce lead levels in water and to support students in drinking water as a healthy beverage. Findings illustrate strategies to...
