Oregon State University will provide community leaders with research-based information about their local social and economic conditions, the context within which they must make decisions, and effective strategies for achieving various community development objectives. In collaboration with community leaders, extension faculty produce comprehensive rural community profiles that provide essential information on local economic, demographic, and land-use conditions and trends, as well as economic, social, and policy strategies.

Community input-output analysis publications are available under Rural Economies.

Community Presentations

Through informal educational programs around the state, Oregon State University will make research-based information about rural conditions, trends, opportunities, challenges, and effective strategies for development accessible to all Oregonians.

Milton - Freewater Economic Impacts
of Water Allocation
February 2006

Community Partnerships

Oregon State University and Rural Studies Program faculty will seek long-term multi-disciplinary collaboration in a small number of “Partnership Communities” that want intensive interaction with OSU on-campus and field faculty. The partnerships seek to improve the quality of life in the partnering community. Faculty, students, and community members will come together to jointly define the ways in which the university and the community can learn from each other.

Conferences

The Rural Studies Program sponsors conferences on issues of importance to rural communities..

2007 Fall Symposium: Collaborative Governance in the West: Prospects, Problems and Theory (October 2007)

AAEA Pre-Conference Workshop: Fundamentals of Spatial Economics (July 2007)

Rising Food and Energy Prices: US Food Policy at a Crossroads (October 2008)