Rural Community College Alliance presents:

Revitalizing Rural Economies
October 6-8, 2003 • San Antonio, Texas

Conference Themes and Topics
The scope of the conference includes, but is not limited to, the following topics as they relate to the overall themes:

Economic Diversification
l Value-added natural resources and agriculture/agribusiness
l Economic development
l Youth retention
l Heritage and cultural tourism
l Building regional alternatives and clustering/building regional alternatives
l E-commerce
l Entrepreneurship/small business development

Workforce Development
l Innovative practices
l Linkages with grassroots organizations
l Linkages with universities
l Linkages with business and industry

Educational Access
l Pathways to student success
l Lifelong learning opportunities
l Successful strategies for reaching low wealth and underserved populations
l Innovative community college and land-grant partnerships
l Linkages with pre-K-16

Institutional and Community Capacity Building
l Private and government funders
l Policy and legislation
l Collaborative partnerships
l Building leadership for community development
l Service learning
l Community and tribal college leadership for economic development

• All communication will be with the contact presenter who is responsible for communicating with co-presenters of that session.
• All presenters must register and pay the registration fee.
• The conference will provide LCD/data projectors with laptop computers (presenters will need to bring their presentation in PowerPoint format on a disk or CD), overhead projectors, VCRs and flip charts, as requested.