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Showing 1 to 20 of 323 for “"rural community"”.
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Challenges in establishing and sustaining a rural Community Music School: A case study of rural community music projects
Community Music Projects were established to fill a gap in music education in the high- poverty areas of South Africa, a rift caused by Apartheid. This study investigates strategies for establishing and sustaining community music projects (CMPs) within the context of the Western Cape, South Africa. …
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Agricultural Environmental Risk and Rural Community Culture
… to an understanding of the process by which rural communities solve an environmental problem, specifically, when the source of contamination is agricultural, and community members are familiar with and even identify with farming activities as being vital to the community well-being.
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Quality of life in a rural community: Perceptions of the role and contributions of the small, rural community college
<p>Community colleges play a fundamental role in higher education. They are open-access institutions, providing higher education services to individuals from a variety of backgrounds. Community colleges also provide important workforce development and training opportunities to help develop the …
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Small Town: Urban Struggles in a Rural Community
… and provide a glimpse into Fairmont, a small rural village in Central Illinois. These stories depict several challenges faced by Geoff and Michael and the ways in which they dealt with them. Their life stories provide an interpretive ethnographic depiction of a small town, showing the …
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Valued Spaces of Adolescents in a Rural Community
… suburban adolescents, this study focuses on rural adolescents in a southwest Virginia town. Adolescents at a local high school are used as the subjects for this study. They were asked to take photographs of their two most valued outdoor spaces. A questionnaire was then given to each student …
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An economic analysis of small rural community colleges
… costs and educational output in two-year public community colleges. The research hypothesis was that small rural community colleges cannot produce the same educational output at either the same average or the same marginal cost as do those community colleges that operate on a relatively larger …
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A Multidimensional Leadership Model For Rural Community College Presidents
<p>A qualitative study involving six rural community college presidents was conducted with the intended purpose of understanding what dimensions of leadership emerge from rural community college presidents during times of sustained financial distress. Unexpectedly, the presidents pointed the …
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The Pine Mountain Valley Rural Community Project 1934-1946
… Relief Administration established about 100 rural industrial communities across America. By providing the opportunity to develop rural communities based upon modern farming and agriculturally-related industries, dislocated workers would be brought back to the land as productive citizens. One …
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The Cost of Organizational Change for Rural Community Colleges
… of implementing structural change in a rural community college in the mid-South region of the United States. Specifically, this study will examine the unanticipated outcomes of merging student affairs and academic affairs into one division. Scant empirical evidence exists about the …
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Leisure Meanings in a Rural Community of Costa Rica
"What leisure meant to a group of people in a rural community of Costa Rica was explored using cultural consensus and phenomenological methods of analyses. The denotative and connotative meanings of leisure were studied as they pertained to twelve research participants characterized as adults, …
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Development of wireless network planning software for rural community use
Rural New Zealand has poor access to broadband Internet. The CRCnet project at the University of Waikato identified point-to-point wireless technology as an appropriate solution, and built networks for rural communities. The project identified viable solutions using low-cost wireless technologies …
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Psychotropic and Social Drug Use in the Rural Community Elderly
<p>The use of psychotropic agents among the rural elderly is an area of concern for health care providers. Studies have indicated that the elderly are major consumers of psychotropic prescription and overthe- counter medications, however no studies have examined the rural elderly's patterns of …
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Basque Assimilation Across Four Generations: Experiences in a Rural Community
… it was like for immigrants coming to work in rural America and how they have changed over time.</p><p>This study found that assimilation began in the second generation and was nearly complete by the third generation. Interestingly, after four generations, what it means to be Basque can change …
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Parental Involvement Typologies in Rural Community Schools: A Qualitative Investigation.
… learning at home, and collaboration with the community. Barriers to parental involvement practices were addressed as were suggestions for improved parental involvement opportunities and modalities.</p>
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Access Barriers To Higher Education For Rural Community College Students
… the study was to examine factors related to rural low-income, first generation college students' obstacles to community college enrollment. The study examined barriers students overcame to attend college and focused on rural college students from two community colleges in Missouri and …
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Defining diversity: the politics of identity in a rural community
… study examines the meaning of "diversity" in a rural community, along with related issues of social identity. Data collected through participant observation, public documents, and interviews has shown that as in most places, "diversity" is typically defined in Montgomery County, Virginia in …
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Involvement in economic development activities by small rural community colleges
… development activities at selected small, rural two-year community colleges. Specifically, the study addressed the question of how a small rural community college can effectively contribute to the economic development efforts of the community it serves. This study combined the survey and …
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Women's involvement in community development : a study of Mambuka rural community
… was to investigate the involvement of women in community development with special reference to rural women in Mambuka area. The study focused on the reasons influencing women to participate in community development projects. The investigation looked at various aspects involved in the process of …
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Personality Types of Registered Nurses Employed in a Rural Community Hospital
… the personality types of registered nurses in a rural community. An extensive literature review revealed that no studies, utilizing the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) to identify personality types, had been conducted with rural nurses. Jung's Psychological Type Theory was the theoretical …
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Application of clinical pharmacy in the rural community : the Livingston project
<p>During the past few year's the health care delivery system of the United States has come under increasingly close scrutiny and attack by citizens concerned over the illogical distribution and cost of receiving adequate health care. Outcries for changing our current standards of health care …
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