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Focus areas: Quality of Place,Sustaining Hoosier Communities
Status: Completed
With the potential to be an active site for youth recreation and education, students studying youth development examined the Orange County Community Garden and proposed youth programming for implementation.
Focus areas: Community Resilience,Sustaining Hoosier Communities
Status: Completed
The 4-H Fairgrounds are an important community gathering space, but its previous location had some accessibility barriers. Economic geography students supervised by Dr. Dan Knudsen conducted a location analysis using Census data and Google Maps to...
Focus areas: Quality of Place,Education
Status: Completed
The Center for Rural Engagement partnered with the Jacobs School of Music and Reimagining Opera for Kids to introduce children in rural areas to opera and give developing professional musicians the opportunity to hone their schools. This was...
Focus areas: Community Resilience,Sustaining Hoosier Communities
Status: Completed
Homelessness remains one of the most challenging social and public policy problems in the United States, affecting urban and rural areas. Graduate students in Laura Littlepage’s Capstone in Public Affairs course worked with the Washington County...
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: Education
Status: In progress
The Rural Cultural Awareness project aims to develop comprehensive educational materials for university partners that highlight the unique characteristics, strengths, and challenges of rural communities in Indiana. By fostering a deeper...
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.
