ICDD Public Issues Facilitation Workshop January 11-13, 2010, K-State
Rural Grocery Store Summit II: Saving Rural America's Critical Infrastructure June 14-15, 2010, Center for Engagement and Community Development, K-State.
"Engagement occurs when collaborative partners - both on and off-campus stakeholders - work together to address a public need in a way that is both reciprocal and mutually beneficial. Through engagement, K-State endeavors to fulfill its historic land grant mission."
David E. Procter, Director of CECD
Overview of the 2010 Rural Grocery Store Summit.
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As a land-grant university, Kansas State University is constantly developing its national rapport. University president, Kirk H. Schulz has visions of becoming a top land-grant school in several years and in order to do so, it is necessary to progress in the area of military and university engagement.
United States soldiers risk their lives everyday to meet the needs of the country and to protect its citizens, but they cannot do it alone. Most soldiers are supported by loyal families and loving wives and children who should not be forgotten. Briana Goff, professor of family studies and human services at Kansas State University is an integral part of the Institute for the Health and Security of Military Families, initiated at K-State.
One of the biggest things that the nation has undergone in recent years is the war in Iraq and Afghanistan, yet the majority of the countries' citizens and military still remain uneducated about each other and what a wartime bond could achieve. Daryl Youngman, associate professor at Hale Library at Kansas State University is an advocate for counterinsurgency and developing bonds between U.S. and Afghanistan soldiers and citizens. Counterinsurgency involves the act of combating guerilla warfare and is more of a peace-making effort.
Perhaps one of the closest ways Kansas State University works with military is through the educational programs set in place at Manhattan's local military base, Ft. Riley. Toni Bryant, Ft. Riley extension office coordinator said she can see the impact the university has had on the base, just in the amount of interest and K-State spirit. "There's a lot of K-State grads on this post," Bryant said. "We have a lot of purple floating around."
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