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Kansas State University

CECD Staff

 

David E. Procter, Director

David Procter is Director of CECD and a professor of speech communication. He received his B.S. and M.A. from Kansas State University and his Ph.D. from the University of Nebraska. Since arriving at K-State in 1987, he has worked in partnership with communities across the state. He has worked on issues of school consolidation, community strategic planning, heritage museum education, facilitation of community dialogue, and strategies for re-populating rural communities. Procter has authored two books on community building - Enacting Political Culture (1991) and The Rhetoric of Community Building (2005) plus numerous essays and book chapters on the subject. Before becoming the Director of CECD, Procter served on the Advisory Board for the Kansas Center for Rural Initiatives.

 

 

Dan Kahl, K-State Research and Extension Liaison

Dan Kahl is the Research and Extension Liaison with the CECD. Dan served nine years as the Executive Director of a not-for-profit organization, and as Director of a nationally funded community service program before coming to K-State. In 1998 he joined K-State Research and Extension to co-coordinate the Kansas Environmental Leadership Program. Since 2002, Dan has been the Extension Director of the Kansas PRIDE program, a partnership between the Kansas Department of Commerce, and K-State Extension. Through the PRIDE program he works with volunteer teams in communities across the state dedicated to community improvement. Dan is an Education graduate of Iowa State University, and has a Masters in Leadership Studies from FHSU.

 

 

Chandra Ruthstrom, Administrative Assistant

Chandra Ruthstrom is the Administrative Assistant for operations at the Center for Engagement and Community Development. Her duties include special event coordination; maintaining and monitoring CECD's fiscal operations; serving as the Center's personnel officer; serving as the chief liaison with university departments; and serving as the Center's grant manager and administrator.