Progress 02/01/22 to 08/31/23

Outputs
Target Audience:Target audience is faculty and staff at land grant institutions in the North Central Region. The project led by our first fellow targeted facultythat want to establish and strengthen relationships between 1994, 1890, and 1862 land grant institutions. The project led by our second fellow targetsrural development practitioners that are working in the caregiving space. The target audience also includes policy makers at both the state and federal level. Changes/Problems: Nothing Reported What opportunities for training and professional development has the project provided?Graduate students were trained on developing data visualizations and short outreach publications. Graduate students presented posters. How have the results been disseminated to communities of interest?We have disseminated results through media, webinars, social media, and confernce presenations. What do you plan to do during the next reporting period to accomplish the goals? Nothing Reported

Impacts
What was accomplished under these goals? We continued our work facilitating partnerships among land grant institutions by collaborating on a pre-conference summit that took place before FALCON (First American Land Grant Consortium) 2023 conference. The Land-Grant Partnership Summit brought together 1994s and 1862 to enhance working relationships. We finalized the NCR-Stat: Caregiving survey instrument and began data collection.Caregiving is a critical rural development issue that affects all sectors of the economy. Broadly, theCenters for Disease Control & Prevention defines caregivers as those who "provide care to people who need some degree of ongoing assistance with everyday tasks on a regular or daily basis. The recipients of care can live either in residential orinstitutional settings, range from children to older adults, and have chronic illnesses or disabling conditions." Caregivers maybe paid or unpaid and caregiving occurs in both the formal and informal economy. The availability, quality, cost, and value ofcaregiving in the United States has long been fraught, these issues have all been exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic.To better understand how caregiving currently intersects with and affects community and economic development in the NorthCentral Region, the theme of the 2023 NCRCRD regional survey is "caregiving." As a NCRCRD Fellow, Dr. Inwood coordinatedwith the NCRCRD to lead a team to develop and implement the survey instrument.The resulting data set will be housed at the NCRCRD website and will be available open access to researchers and practitioners.

Publications

• Type: Other Status: Published Year Published: 2023 Citation: Chowdhury, A. (2023, June 6). How Often do North Central Region Households Run Out of Food? North Central Regional Center for Rural Development. https://ncrcrd.ag.purdue.edu/2023/06/05/how-often-do-households-in-the-north-central-region-run-out-of-food/
• Type: Other Status: Published Year Published: 2023 Citation: Chowdhury, A. (2023, March 14). Protecting Environment in the North Central Region. North Central Regional Center for Rural Development. https://ncrcrd.ag.purdue.edu/2023/03/14/protecting-environment-in-the-north-central-region/
• Type: Other Status: Published Year Published: 2023 Citation: Armesto G�mez, A. (2023, September 18). Unraveling Local Living: A Peek into the Diverse Preferences of Family Households with and without Children�. North Central Regional Center for Rural Development. https://ncrcrd.ag.purdue.edu/2023/09/18/unraveling-local-living/

Progress 02/01/22 to 01/31/23

Outputs
Target Audience:Target audience is faculty and staff at land grant institutionsin the North Central Region. We have especially targeted faculty at 1994 institutions and those that want to establish and strengthen relationships between 1994, 1890, and 1862 land grant institutions. We are also targeting rural developmentpractitioners. Changes/Problems: Nothing Reported What opportunities for training and professional development has the project provided?Graduate students was provided training on how to clean large datasets, how to analyze data, how to make data visualizations, and write data snapshots.Four NCRCRD staff attended FALCON for professional development. How have the results been disseminated to communities of interest?We have disseminated results through media, webinars, social media, and confernce presenations. What do you plan to do during the next reporting period to accomplish the goals?We are continuing to work with Dr. Gavazzi on organizing and faciliating land-grant institution partnerships. Dr. Inwood has asssembled a team and we are in the process of finalizing the NCR-Stat: Caregiving survey to be deployed and data collected in Spring 2023. Data for NCR-Stat are the provided open access.

Impacts
What was accomplished under these goals? The center has awarded two fellowships. Details about the fellows and thier activities are below. Fellow #1:Dr.Stephen M. Gavazzi, professor of Human Sciences at The Ohio State University Project Title:Understanding and Advancing Partnerships Among 1994 and 1862 Land-Grant Universities in the North Central Region Dr. Gavazzi was awarded a conference grant from the National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA). In collaboration with NCRCRD and the American Indian Higher Education Consortium (AIHEC), the NIFA grant was used to host a post-conference in front of the2022 First Americans Land-grant Consortium (FALCON) Conference. This post-conference was designed to focus attention on past, present, and potential future partnerships between 1994 land-grant Tribal Colleges and Universities (TCUs) and their sister 1862 land-grant universities (LGUs). This proposal seeks support for work conducted both prior to and following the October 2022 pre-conference. Activities preceding the conference (July 2022-September 2022) centered on classifying the defining features of past and present 1994-1862 partnerships throughout the North Central Region. These pre-conference activities will include both larger-scale survey methods as well as one-on-one interviews with personnel attached to these 1994-1862 partnerships. Defining features will include, but not be limited to, characteristics associated with mission-specific classification (teaching, research, community engagement), funding sources, and evaluation strategies to date. Efforts conducted as a follow-up to the October pre-conference (November 2022-June 2023) will surround the implementation of a needs assessment which will determine the gaps that exist between current partnerships that serve Tribal families and communities and what might optimally be carried out by these sister institutions. Again, both larger-scale survey methods and one-on-one interviews will be employed as data-gathering strategies.For more information on the Land-Grant Partners Project visithttps://landgrantpartnerships.org/. Fellow #2: Dr.Shoshanah Inwood,Rural Sociologist and Associate Professor,School of Environment and Natural Resources,The Ohio State University Project Summary:Caregiving is a critical rural development issue that affects all sectors of the economy. Broadly, the Centers for Disease Control & Prevention defines caregivers as those who "provide care to people who need some degree of ongoing assistance with everyday tasks on a regular or daily basis. The recipients of care can live either in residential or institutional settings, range from children to older adults, and have chronic illnesses or disabling conditions." Caregivers may be paid or unpaid and caregiving occurs in both the formal and informal economy. The availability, quality, cost, and value of caregiving in the United States has long been fraught, these issues have all been exacerbated by the COVID-19 pandemic. To better understand how caregiving currently intersects with and affects community and economic development in the North Central Region, the theme of the 2023 NCRCRD regional survey is "caregiving." As a NCRCRD Fellow, Dr. Inwood is coordinating with the NCRCRD to lead the development, implementation, and analysis of the 2023 NCRCRD Caregiving Survey. The resulting data set will be housed at the NCRCRD and following Center protocols and policies will be used for interdisciplinary collaboration across states and across research and Extension.

Publications

• Type: Websites Status: Published Year Published: 2022 Citation: Land-Grant Partnerships Website. https://landgrantpartnerships.org