Sorry for multiple posts On Behalf of Aaron Lusby
Colleagues, I am proposing a session, "On Teaching Rural Development," for the 2010 Mid-Continent Regional Science Association annual meetings in St. Louis, MO, June 3-5. I have a USDA grant to start a rural development certification program, which includes five courses on rural development: an introductory course, a grant writing course, a GIS overview course, an international trade course and a course on electronic commerce. I am interested in learning the state of the art in rural community/economic development education, whether at the undergraduate level, graduate levels or in extension. I?m interested in both domestic (U.S.) rural development and in rural development around the world. I am interested in what others consider vital topics necessary for quality training in rural development. Please share your experiences from the classroom and/or in the field. Abstracts are due on April 1, but we can have an extra week or so to submit. If you are interested in participating, please submit your abstracts to me at [email protected], and I will submit them to MCRSA in one batch. Details about the conference, held jointly with Minnesota IMPLAN Group, are available at http://www.mcrsa.org/. -- Aaron K. Lusby, Ph.D Assistant Professor of Agricultural Business Louisiana Rural Development Center Department of Agricultural Sciences Louisiana Tech University [email protected] (318) 257-2451 Fax: (318) 257-4288 http://www.latech.edu/rural_development/ John Leatherman Office of Local Government Department of Agricultural Economics Kansas State University 331G Waters Hall Manhattan, KS 66506-4026 Phone: 785-532-4492 Fax: 785-532-6925 NEW E-mail: [email protected] Website: www.oznet.ksu.edu/olg
