Rural Studies Institute Report — Spring 2021

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RSI-Sponsored Virtual Learning Experiences SINCE JANUARY 2020 Due to Covid-19, all of RSI’s educational outreach efforts were virtual and highlighted national, state, and local rural thought leaders.

June 23, 2020 COVID in Rural Georgia in partnership with GC College of Health Sciences, Morehouse School of Medicine, the Medical College of

93%

Agree or strongly agree that the program was valuable.

93%

Agree or strongly agree that they were satisfied with the program.

Georgia, Adrick Ingram Hancock County Coroner, and Sarah Bobrow-Williams, faculty member and community organizer. *The program had 90 registrants and 69 attendees.

*23% return rate

Aug. 4, 2020 Rural Education in the age of COVID-19 in partnership with the Georgia College, College of Education, the Center for American

95%

Agree or strongly agree that the program was valuable.

Progress, the National Rural Education Association, and Dr. Noris Price, Superintendent of Baldwin County, Georgia, school system.

100%

*The program had 132 registrants and 89 attendees.

Agree or strongly agree that they were satisfied with the program. *21% return rate

Sept. 8, 2020 A Virtual Brown Bag – What is the RSI? With the Campus Community. The program had 48 registrants and 31 attended.

Sept. 29, 2020 The Significance of Rural with Dr. James. C. Scott, Yale political

100%

Agree or strongly agree that the program was valuable.

100%

Agree or strongly agree that they were satisfied with the program.

scientist and creator of the Yale University Agrarian Studies Program, and Sarah Smarsh, New York Times best-selling author. *The program had 90 registrants and 48 attendees.

*27% return rate RSI FIRST-YEAR REPORT 10 GEORGIA COLLEGE


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