Philanthropy’s current focus on rural America echoes interests from over a century ago, amid claims of historic underinvestment in rural communities. Nonetheless, a strong history of rural innovation persists, driven by a new wave of funders, leaders, and advocates.

Open educational resources (OER) are openly licensed, no-cost educational materials, such as free online textbooks, that have been shown to have a variety of benefits for students and their learning.

Rural community colleges occupy a unique and important place in higher education. Of 332 million Americans, 46 million live in rural communities, and more than 1.5 million attend one of 444 rural community colleges.

To better understand the factors accelerating CEO turnover in California and the ways in which this might be prevented in the future, ResearchEd collaborated with the Community College League of California (CCLC) to conduct one-on-one interviews, distribute surveys to CCC CEOs and Board of Trustee members, and conducted focus groups with these stakeholders from January to March 2022.

The purpose of this report is to document the Powered By Publics (PxP) network's progress and share examples of innovation emerging from cross-campus collaborations.

A national collaborative of rural policy and advocacy organizations released their “2023 Rural Action Policy Report,” outlining specific investments, policy improvements, and regulatory reforms to provide the tools rural people need to succeed.