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Thursday, August 13, 2020
Seeking Nominations: OSU's Rural Renewal Citizenship Prize
The Rural Renewal Initiative inspires, empowers, and coordinates rural renewal research at Oklahoma State University and beyond.

The Rural Renewal Initiative supports interdisciplinary research by funding seed grant projects seeking to improve the lives of people in rural communities and providing them with trained student research scholars to lead community engaged and participative research. The Rural Renewal Initiative will host its inaugural Rural Renewal Symposium online on October 13, 2020, to expand and empower its network of collaborating faculty, students, and community leaders. The symposium will feature the research of faculty, scholars, and other technical and social scientists who have conducted research in and for rural communities.

At the symposium, the Rural Renewal Initiative will award the first Rural Renewal Citizenship Prize. Nominations are sought for this award to honor a leader who has made an important contribution to the renewal of one or more rural communities in Oklahoma. This Prize is designed to recognize a person who shows true leadership qualities, is an exceptional role model, promotes community welfare, and advocates for community needs. This award seeks to highlight the work done by rural community members to improve their own community. Nomination materials include:
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As the 2020-21 School Year begins- over 200 Oklahoma School Districts rely on the resources they can access from the Oklahoma Public Schools Resource Center. I talk with their Executive Director Brent Bushey about how the world of education was turned upside down in March of this year when COVID-19 kept student from returning to the Classroom after Spring Break. Brent talks about how schools worked to adapt this past spring and how that brings us to the fall semester- Brent says his group helps with Professional Development with teachers and other key staff- and has helped in the move into technological solutions to make education work in a COVID world. Today's Podcast is powered by the Petroleum Alliance of Oklahoma.

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