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- Rural Grocery Store Sustainability
- Confronting issues of business development, public health and community sustainability, CECD is partnering with the Kansas Sampler Foundation, the Huck Boyd National Institute for Rural Development, grocery store owners from across the state and faculty and staff from the departments of agricultural economics, human nutrition and rural sociology at K-State to identify and develop models to sustain retail sources of food for rural Kansas citizens. Read more
- Public Issues Education
- Benchmarking and Assessing Engagement and Community Development
Spring 2008 CECD Engagement Incentive Grant Awards
Tim Frey
Special Education, Counseling, and Student AffairsTechnology Enhanced Collaboration — Schools and Teachers Engaged in Professional Development (TEC-STEP)
Betty Stevens
Continuing EducationMatchmaking Made Easy: Helping Jobs, Young Workers, and Trainers Find Each Other
Jane Marshall
Dept. of Hotel, Restaurant, Institution Management and DieteticsBiscuits and Bison: Great Plains Foodways Connection Project
Vincent Amanor-Boadu
Agricultural EconomicsTransportation Network Development: Leaping the Hurdles for Local Food Markets
Fall 2007 CECD Engagement Incentive Grant Awards
Lynda Bachelor
Civic LeadershipPutting the Community in Community Assessment: Putting Deliberation in Assessing Social Service Assets and Needs in Manhattan, KS/Riley County
Nancy Muturi
Journalism and Mass CommunicationHealth Literacy for HIV/Aids Prevention among Minority Women: A Community-Based Participatory Approach
R. Michael Gros
Theatre ProgramRomeo and Juliet — A Theatrical Response to Youth Violence
Ron Wilson
Huck Boyd National Institute for Rural DevelopmentRural Engagement and Action Leadership, or the REAL Project
Satoris Youngcourt
PsychologyEngaging the Engagers: What Excites the University Extension Agent?
Spring 2007 funded projects
Pilot learning community at Meadowlark Hills Retirement Community
Gayle Doll, PIThe development of a pilot learning community at Meadowlark Hills Retirement Community, Manhattan involving K-State faculty, the retirement community, Manhattan Area Technical College, K-State Research and Extension and the Kansas Association for Homes and Services for the Aging.
Expanding Institutional Markets and Local Food Production in the Kansas River Valley
Rhonda Janke, PIExpanding Institutional Markets and Local Food Production in the Kansas River Valley is a project to engage K-State faculty, local farmers and ranchers, and local institutional, school system and restaurant buyers to build a sustainable food system.
Building Web Site Templates to Support Rural Communities and Immigrant Populations in the Great Plains
Tom Gould and Bradley Shaw, PIsBuilding Bridges with Rural Communities: Building Web Site Templates to Support Rural Communities and Immigrant Populations in the Great Plains. This project involves K-State faculty working with rural communities and immigrant populations to create useable community web sites.
Impact of Civic Discourse on Citizen Participation in the Political Process
Larry Erickson and Marie Steichen, PIsThe Impact of Civic Discourse on Citizen Participation in the Political Process will increase K-State's engagement with Kansas communities on important community issues. The project also will seek to engage community research to study the impact of public forums on citizen participation.
Fall 2006 funded projects
Technical Assistance to Urban Core Communities
Sheri Smith, PIEngaging the Military Student Community in the K-State Academic Culture
Daryl Youngman, Donna Schenck-Hamlin and Federico Rodriguez, PIsFt. Riley Education Services and K-State Libraries in Partnership.