Roanoke Times
Copyright (c) 1995, Landmark Communications, Inc.
DATE: SATURDAY, June 24, 1995 TAG: 9506260018
SECTION: CURRENT PAGE: NRV-2 EDITION: NEW RIVER VALLEY
SOURCE: PAUL DELLINGER STAFF WRITER
DATELINE: RADFORD LENGTH: Medium
Some of the presentations will be open to the public.
The workshop's purpose is to bring together teachers to discuss what communities can do about such problems as an important employer leaving, economic reversals and a lack of entry-level jobs for young people. Speakers will look at where other localities have succeeded and failed in trying to solve such problems.
The workshop also will explore community development goals and study the benefits and costs of different revitalization strategies.
Participating teachers will be expected to use the information to develop curricula related to solving the problems, tailoring them to their specific communities. The idea is to turn students toward community development for a payoff that may come years later from seeds planted in classrooms now.
Bruce Nissen of Indiana University Northwest will speak Tuesday from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. on traditional development approaches in Indiana.
Since 1981, Nissen has testified at congressional hearings and state and local commissions and been a consultant on labor and community affairs issues. He has been the subject of interviews on community development in such publications as Time, U.S. News and World Report and the Christian Science Monitor.
His will speak on alternative development approaches later on Tuesday, from 8 p.m. to 9 p.m., in Davis Hall Room 151.
The other public presentation will be a panel on nontraditional experiences in community development. It will feature Nissen, discussing his experiences with the Calumet Project to save jobs in Indiana; Herb Smith, from Appalshop, on projects to preserve Appalachian culture; Frank Dukes, from the University of Virginia, on activities of the Institute for Environmental Negotiation related to community development planning; and Debbie Jonas, owner of the Colony of Virginia Ltd. store in downtown Pulaski and president of the Pulaski Business Alliance, on the success of Pulaski's Main Street program.
That panel will be from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m. Wednesday in David Hall 151.
The course runs through Friday and carries three semester hours of graduate credit. The registration fee for participants is $50. Other tuition, room and board costs are being underwritten by Appalachian Power Co. and the Virginia State Council on Economic Education.
The program is being offered through the Radford University Center for Economic Education and the Radford University Continuing Education Program. Further information is available from Douglas Woolley at 831-5100.
Registration is 10 a.m. to noon today.
by CNB