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Get Outside After School Activity Program (GO-ASAP)

Ada Inman — Tue, 17 Sep 2024 15:05:02 +0000

The Get Outside After School Activity Program (GO-ASAP) offers middle school students activities including hiking, paddle boarding, rock climbing, mountain biking, and cross country skiing. Middle school students who are not involved in extra-curricular school activities are selected by area middle schools to participate in GO-ASAP.

The goal of GO-ASAP is to provide students with an opportunity to get outside, build positive community, and learn physical activity skills that will carry forward as lifestyle choices. Four Eastern Oregon University students are hired as paid student GO-ASAP interns. These mentors lead the middle school students in exploring outdoor recreation and activities.

Cottonwood Crossing Summer Institute

Ada Inman — Tue, 17 Sep 2024 15:02:08 +0000

Cottonwood Crossing Summer Institute (CCSI) is a week-long residential field studies program for high school students held in Cottonwood Canyon State Park. Participants choose from course options where they learn about locally significant cultural or natural resources. Projects are led by EOU faculty, EOU student interns, and other regional professionals. [...]

Rural Planning Project: Wallowa County Fairgrounds

Ada Inman — Tue, 17 Sep 2024 14:59:48 +0000

The Wallowa County Fairgrounds in Enterprise, Oregon is working alongside REV, Devco Engineering, and EOU faculty and students to develop a Master Plan to ensure the grounds remain a community asset, gathering place, and event venue for years to come. [...]

Blues Intergovernmental Council

Ada Inman — Tue, 17 Sep 2024 14:57:41 +0000

Rural areas of the western United States are often dominated by public lands. Eastern Oregon is no exception with vast areas designated as National Forests, BLM lands, wilderness areas, wildlife areas, as well as state-owned lands. Members of the Blues Intergovernmental Council (BIC) were interested in how the management of our National Forests impacts the socioeconomic conditions in the counties where they are located. The report linked on this page was produced by a team at the REV Center to address this question.

Faculty and students at Eastern Oregon University are working with the Blues Intergovernmental Council to provide the council with facilitation support services. In 2022, a team at the REV completed a report providing a socioeconomic analysis describing the impacts of forest-related industries on local economies in 14 counties in eastern Oregon and Washington.

City of Joseph Buildable Lands Inventory

Ada Inman — Tue, 17 Sep 2024 14:53:09 +0000

This rural planning program involves Joseph officials working with Eastern Oregon University students and faculty members to develop a Buildable Lands Inventory. The goal is provide the city with information to support the long-term needs of Joseph. This documentation is being compiled by university graduate and undergraduate students performing policy analysis and reviewing city codes. This work gives students real-world experience while providing information the city can use to update its comprehensive plan. The Joseph effort is funded by the Oregon Department of Land Conservation and Development and supported by ECONorthwest.

Rural Transportation Equity in Morrow County

Ada Inman — Mon, 12 Aug 2024 20:01:27 +0000

The Oregon Department of Land Conservation and Development’s Rural Transportation Equity program is designed to address the needs of transportation-challenged populations in rural areas and improve access to services for these groups. In Morrow County, the Project Management team found that there is a general lack of awareness of the transportation options available as well as a low utilization of existing services. Under a new model with the Rural Engagement & Vitality Center and Euvalcree, a culturally specific organization, the project sought to make public engagement and planning efforts more inclusive, particularly for traditionally underserved groups.

Urban Rural Theater

Victor Manzanilla — Wed, 01 Nov 2023 03:40:50 +0000

Theater artists, Sarah and Jack Greenman, are working with Eastern Oregon University students to bring the Urban Rural Theater project to the stage. Since before the COVID-19 pandemic, Sarah, Jack and EOU students through the REV Center worked on collecting stories of the people of Oregon, from rural, suburban, and urban areas. By excavating and deepening our collective understanding of the “urban-rural divide” in the state of Oregon, the project is to give voice to unheard narratives, honor the stories of those interviewed, and invite audiences into a deeper conversation about community and connection, myth and lived experience, harm and progress.

Interviews have been conducted with over 30 individuals across the state to identify common themes and utilize the words of real people to write a script for a true verbatim theater production. These individuals represent the stories less often told in mainstream media including rural folks, women, Native Americans, formerly incarcerated individuals, and the LGBTQ+ community.