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Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- PART I: COMMUNITY LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT EFFECTS ON COMMUNITY -- 1. Community Leadership -- 2. Impact of Leadership Development Programs on Individual Participants -- 3. Program Outcomes in Organizational Behavior -- 4. Community Leadership Development's Effects on Community -- 5. Participant Diversity, Curriculum Design, and Community Effects -- 6. Designing More Effective Community Leadership Development Programs -- PART II: A CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK FOR COMMUNITY LEADERSHIP DEVELOPMENT IN ACTION -- 7. New Directions for Community Leadership Development -- 8. Community Leadership Relies on Social Cohesion -- 9. Toward a General Theory of Community Leadership? -- Notes -- Appendices -- References -- Index -- About the Authors.

Community leadership development programs are designed to increase the capacity of citizens for civic engagement. These programs fill gaps in what people know about governance and the processes of governance, especially at the local level. The work of many in this field is a response to the recognition that in smaller, rural communities, disadvantaged neighborhoods, or disaster areas, the skills and aptitudes needed for citizens to be successful leaders are often missing or underdeveloped. [This book] presents the results of a five-year study tracking community-level effects of community leadership development programs drawn from research conducted in Illinois, Minnesota, Missouri, South Carolina, Ohio, and West Virginia. As the first book of its kind to seek answers to the question of whether or not the millions of dollars invested each year in community leadership development programs are valuable in the real world, this book challenges researchers, community organizers, and citizens to identify improved ways of demonstrating the link from program to implementation, as well as the way in which programs are conceived and designed. This text also explores how leadership development programs relate to civic engagement, power and empowerment, and community change, and it demonstrates that community leadership development programs really do produce community change. At the same time, the findings of this study strongly support a relational view of community leadership, as opposed to other traditional leadership models used for program design. To complement their findings, the authors have developed CENCE, a new model for community leadership development programs, which links leadership development efforts to community development by understanding how Civic Engagement, Networks, Commitment, and Empowerment work together to produce community viability. -- Back cover.

Cover -- Half Title -- Series Page -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Tables and Figures -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- 1 Introduction: The Future of Rural America -- 2 Rural Policy in Perspective: The Rise, Fall, and Uncertain Future of the American Welfare-State -- 3 The Benefits of Space and the Cost of Distance -- 4 The Emerging Global Economy and Rural Communities: A New Perspective -- 5 The Future of the Community in Rural Areas -- 6 Developing the Farm-Dependent Rural Economy: The Policy Choices -- 7 The Role of Community in Rural Economic Development -- 8 Encouraging Economic Development in Rural America -- 9 The Restructuring of the Global Economy and the Future of U.S. Agriculture -- 10 Families in the New Rural Community -- 11 Individual and Social Problems in Rural Community Life -- 12 Civic Education, Rural Development, and the Land Grant Institutions -- 13 Governing the Countryside: Linking Politics and Administrative Resources -- 14 Regenerating Rural America -- 15 Waking the Owl of Minerva: Constructing a Future for Rural America -- About the Contributors -- Index.

The university contributes instrumentally to society by preparing human service professionals in a broad range of disciplines for the betterment of individuals and families. Today, however, the multiple needs of families are becoming less amenable to technical or clinical solutions and appear to require a greater collaboration among human service providers. Experiential learning is one way for university programs to help students develop collaborative skills. A study of experiential learning activities at the University of Missouri-Columbia reveals how professional programs favor technical competency aimed at accreditation and tend to refrain from the development of interprofessional collaboration. If collaborative skills help build the social capital necessary for the effective functioning of civil society, then a new model of experiential learning is required for the university, one that explicitly teaches collaborative habits and skills for professionals who will provide human services to their communities.

The Internet has become an important part of the daily lives of millions of Americans. Despite its importance, there is little empirical knowledge about the spatial pattern of Internet growth. Using the number of ISPs (Internet service providers) as an indicator of Internet diffusion and adoption, the authors attempt to understand the spatial pattern of Internet adoption and the factors responsible. Specifically, they seek to answer three research questions: Do U.S. counties exhibit differences in Internet adoption? If so, what is the pattern of adoption? and How do county-level socioeconomic and geographical factors affect the adoption of Internet services? For the spatial analysis, polygon pattern analysis is used to see the pattern of Internet adoption. Three spatial error models (for all counties, metro counties, and nonmetro counties) are used to investigate the relationship between various county-level demand indicators and Internet service status. The result shows that market demand is the driving force as counties that are more urban, have more educated people, more business establishments, and higher housing value also have higher ISP presence. This finding implies that the remote and rural areas will continue to suffer from poor Internet access.

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Part I: Who Lives in Rural America Today? -- New Directions in Population Change and Diversity -- 1 Unpredictable Directions of Rural Population Growth and Migration -- 2 African Americans in Rural America -- 3 American Indians -- 4 Latinos in Rural America -- Reshuffling and Remaking Rural Families -- 5 What Do Rural Families Look Like Today? -- 6 Older Rural Families -- 7 Rural Children and Youth at Risk -- 8 Rural Women -- 9 Rural Poverty -- Part II: A Transformed Rural Economy -- 10 How People Make a Living in Rural America -- 11 Who Benefits from Economic Restructuring? -- 12 Commuting -- 13 Continuities and Disjunctures in the Transformation of the U.S. Agro-Food System -- 14 Tourism and Natural Amenity Development -- Part III: The Rural Community: Is It Local? Is It a Community? -- Perspectives on Community -- 15 Community Agency and Local Development -- 16 Social Capital -- 17 Civil Society, Civic Communities, and Rural Development -- The Social Institutions That Maintain and Reproduce Community -- 18 The Global/Local Interface -- 19 Competition, Cooperation, and Local Governance -- 20 Religion -- 21 Promoting Educational Achievement -- 22 Rural Health Policy -- Part IV: People and the Environment: Tough Tradeoffs in an Era with Vanishing Buffers -- 23 Transforming Rural America -- 24 Community and Resource Extraction in Rural America -- 25 Fur, Fins, and Feathers -- Part V: Changing National and International Policies: New Uncertainties and New Challenges -- 26 What Role Can Community Play in Local Economic Development? -- 27 Devolution -- 28 Welfare Reform in Rural Areas -- 29 The Impact of Global Economic Practices on American Farming -- 30 Catalytic Community Development -- Conclusion -- References -- Contributors -- Index