Portland State University and Eastern Oregon University are leading an effort, along with their community partners, to provide an Urban-Rural Ambassador Insitute, a two-week, six-credit residential summer institute each year for undergraduate students to explore urban and rural connections in Oregon, and to develop the collaborative skills to work across Oregon’s urban-rural divide. For more information see the program flyer (PDF) and watch the program video.
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Watch the newly released Time Magazine website feature about the Urban Rural Ambassadors Summer Institute.
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(Below) At Eastern Oregon University (EOU), Governor Brown signed two bills designating EOU as “the rural university” and allocating funds for a field house. In addition, she designated the Urban Rural Ambassador project, advanced by EOU’s Rural Economic Vitality Center, as an Oregon Solutions project.
