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IU CENTER FOR RURAL ENGAGEMENT Beyond the Gates INDIANA UNIVERSITY CENTER FOR RURAL ENGAGEMENT

IU Center for Rural Engagement: Connecting a world-class university to the challenges of rural Hoosier communities • Our mission is to partner with rural communities to improve Hoosier lives. Our vision is to serve as a 21 st century model • for connecting the distinctive resources of a comprehensive flagship research and teaching university and the needs and future of the state’s rural citizens and communities. • Our values include collaboration, partnership, trust, community focus, sustained involvement, and accessibility.

Beyond the Gates: What We Do • Applied Research, Community- Engaged Teaching, and Student Service Engagement • In Six Focus Areas • In Hoosier Rural Communities

Beyond the Gates: Focus Areas • Healthy Hoosier Communities • Resilient Hoosier Communities • Hoosier Quality of Place • Hoosier Educational Attainment • Thriving Hoosier Communities • Capacity Building and Leadership Development

Healthy Applied Grand Hoosier Challenges Research Communities Informatics, Capacity Educational Computing, Building & Eppley Business Attainment and Leadership Institute Engineering Development Economic Indiana Public and Arts and Development & Geological Environmental Humanities Survey Entrepreneurship Affairs Sustainable Resilient Hoosier Social Work Quality of Environment & Hoosier Place Communities Communities

Healthy Hoosier Communities INDIANA UNIVERSITY BLOOMINGTON

Resilient Hoosier Communities INDIANA UNIVERSITY BLOOMINGTON

Hoosier Quality of Place INDIANA UNIVERSITY BLOOMINGTON

Community- SPEA Engaged Connect Teaching Informatics, Public and Computing, Educational Media Environmental and Attainment Affairs Engineering Nursing Social Work Sustainable Sustaining Arts and Environment & Hoosier Sciences Communities Communities Public Health Business

Sustaining Hoosier Communities — Largest Rural University Teaching Partnership in Nation INDIANA UNIVERSITY BLOOMINGTON

Sustaining Hoosier Communities Lawrence County 20 classes; 14 projects; 15 faculty; 550 students Art, Architecture & Design Media Bedford Shared Work Space Bedford Diversity Council Bedford and Mitchell City Gates design Public Health Indiana Limestone Company incubator office Avoca Fish Hatchery plan Biology and Public Health Youth Financial Literacy Program What Moves You, Mitchell? Mitchell and Bedford Community Gardens Informatics, Computing, and Engineering SPEA Gus Grissom Trail Monitoring App Complete Streets initiative Hoosier National Forest Dark Skies designation Hwy 50 Bypass Scoping Study Little Theatre of Bedford Law Legal Needs Assessment in Lawrence County INDIANA UNIVERSITY BLOOMINGTON

Sustaining Hoosier Communities Orange County INDIANA UNIVERSITY BLOOMINGTON

Sustaining Hoosier Communities Orange County 21 classes; 17 projects 14 faculty; 350 students this fall Art, Architecture & Design Media Nursing Accessible Playgrounds Bike Path Planning Health Promotion for Chronic Illness Artist Residency Solar Eclipse Tourism Readiness Public Health HandUp OC Lost River Market and Deli Co-op: Health Promotion Affordable Homes in Rural Indiana Customer Development Social Work Biology and Public Health Informatics, Computing, and Mental Health Promotion and Stigma Health Promotion Engineering Reduction Dark Sky Designation Media/Political and Civic Little Theatre of Bedford Community Arts Network Engagement Community Wellness Network Sociology Orange County: A Rural History Community Health IT Adverse Childhood Experiences data and research INDIANA UNIVERSITY BLOOMINGTON

ALUMNI SPOTLIGHT: Lauren Travis “I didn’t expect to stay here after graduation because I came from so far away, but I had cultivated community ties in the meantime and started to see a role that I might play working within the community.”

STUDENT SPOTLIGHT: Sarah Murphy “Being in a class that is closely involved with my community is really awesome. It makes my major feel more tangible.”

COMMUNITY-ENGAGED TEACHING SPOTLIGHT: SPEA Connect The center and the School of Public and Environmental Affairs joined Greene County healthcare and government leaders to examine issues around opioid misuse and identify opportunities to improve outcomes.

Student Civic Engagement Engagement IU Corps Fairview Violin Project Serve: Design Kelley Serve IT Institute for Social Impact Promoting Alternative Healthy Populations Spring Break Practicum

Student Engagement: IU Corps • 230+ student organizations • 160 community engagement programs • 200 service-learning classes INDIANA UNIVERSITY

School of Social Work Rural Engagement • Social work practicum placements in rural communities • Address issues of addiction and mental health INDIANA UNIVERSITY

STUDENT SPOTLIGHT: Keshuann Tompkins-Barnes “IU Corps is important because it allows you to volunteer and help groups that you would have never imagined you could have helped. I have learned a lot about myself and my peers.”

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Next Steps INDIANA UNIVERSITY BLOOMINGTON

DATA ANALYSIS Understanding Rural Indiana: Data Needs for the Future Wednesday, October 3 IU Bloomington INDIANA UNIVERSITY

Connect with the center. iucre@indiana.edu rural.indiana.edu

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