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 Georgia, Adrick Ingram Hancock County Coroner, and Sarah Bobrow-Williams, faculty member and community organizer.

93% agree or strongly agree that the program was valuable. 93% agree or strongly agree that they were satisfied with the program. *23% return rate

*The program had 90 registrants and 69 attendees.

Aug. 4, 2020

Rural Education in the age of COVID-19 in partnership with the Georgia College, College of Education, the Center for American Progress, the National Rural Education Association, and Dr. Noris Price, Superintendent of Baldwin County, Georgia, school system.

95% agree or strongly agree that the program was valuable. 100% agree or strongly agree that they were satisfied with the program. *21% return rate

*The program had 132 registrants and 89 attendees.

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 scientist and creator of the Yale University Agrarian Studies Program, and Sarah Smarsh, New York Times best-selling author.

100% agree or strongly agree that the program was valuable. 100% agree or strongly agree that they were satisfied with the program. *27% return rate

*The program had 90 registrants and 48 attendees.