Rural Education and Healthcare Coalition at Columbia University

Hi Rural Education and Healthcare Members,

Thank you to all who attended REHC's last meeting of the academic year!

A BIG CONGRATULATIONS TO THE NEWLY-ELECTED OFFICERS FOR REHC!!! 👏

Your 2022-2023 REHC Executive Board is:

Executive Chair: Cameron Arnzen
Associate Chair: Brianna Zimmerman
Administrative Chair: Catherine Gaspar

We so appreciate everything you all have done for our organization this year and are looking forward to 2022-2023! Enjoy your upcoming summer!

-Executive Chair: Ty McNamee
-Associate Chair: Cameron Arnzen
-Administrative Chair: Catherine Gaspar

Our 5th Annual Rural Education & Healthcare Symposium was a success! Each session was filled with great participation, including lots of Q&A and group discussion. THANK YOU to all who helped plan and facilitate the symposium, as well as to those who attended!!

We look forward to closing out the semester with our last REHC meeting of the academic year. This will take place this Tuesday, April 26th from 5:00pm-6:00pm via Zoom (https://teacherscollege.zoom.us/j/93694873125). During this meeting, we will be celebrate the year and host REHC Officer Elections to elect the offices below. Please come prepared to this meeting to have someone nominate you or to nominate yourself for a position and to give a brief speech about why you'd want that position. We will then have folx vote via a secure Google Form that only the current officers can see.

Executive Chair: Be the chief executive of the organization; preside over meetings of the organization; appoint committees or commissions that are deemed necessary; call special meetings of the organization; meet monthly with advisor; take care that this constitution and the laws of the student body are faithfully executed; act as primary contact and liaison with the institution; facilitate the Executive Board election process; coordinate and oversee the E-board and committee.

Associate Chair: Assume Executive Chair's duties in their absence, schedule meetings/practice rooms/facilities, plan member/officer training programs as needed; delegate and oversee major projects; make sure event registration and event evaluation forms are completed when needed; report to the Executive Chair.

Administrative Chair: Manage budget and fundraising efforts, take and distribute group meeting notes, design and sell merchandise; keep all financial records, notify organization of financial issues, prepares budget/allocation requests; report to the Executive Chair.

As always, hope you all are safe and well during these times! We look forward to seeing your faces via Zoom on Tuesday!

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Teachers College Record is hosting a book talk on Tuesday, April 5th from 3:00pm-4:00pm EST that we think will be of interest to folx!

Authors Dr. Caitlin Howley & Dr. Sam Redding of Cultivating Rural Education: A People-Focused Approach for States, chapter author Dr. Jennifer Seelig, and the book reviewer Dr. Kathy Randolph, will engage in a conversation about the importance of rural education in the current educational landscape, and discuss the process of writing a book review. This event is co-sponsored by the AERA Rural Ed Special Interest Group.

RSVP here: https://bit.ly/RuralEdTalk. The book review can be found at https://www.tcrecord.org/Content.asp?ContentID=23917, and the book is available for purchase on Amazon at https://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1648024696/teacherscolleger.

Looking forward to seeing everyone at our symposium on Friday!

This week is the week!

Join us for our 5th Annual Rural Education & Healthcare Symposium on THIS FRIDAY, April 1, 2022! This symposium will include two virtual panels (each use the same Zoom registration link):
Session I
12:00pm-1:30pm ET
Supporting Rural Students In and Out of the Classroom: Centering the Holistic Needs of Rural Students
Join us via Zoom to learn about how we can best support rural students from their learning in the classroom to their basic needs outside of school. Speakers on this virtual panel will include:
-Casey T. Jakubowski, SUNY Empire State College
-Stephen McCauley, Paris Independent School District
-Tad Rounds, Hammondsport Central School
-Jennifer Ash, National Center for Rural Education Research

Session II
3:00-5:00pm ET
Supporting Rural Q***r and Trans* Students From K-12 Through College
Join us via Zoom to learn about how we can best support q***r and trans* students from rural areas, during both their K-12 and higher education experiences. Speakers on this virtual panel will include:
-Colby Tofel-Grehl, Utah State University
-Ty McNamee, Teachers College, Columbia University
-Brody Tate, Loyola University Chicago
-Baker A. Rogers, Georgia Southern University
-Stephanie Anne Shelton, The University of Alabama

In order to attend, you MUST register for the Zoom webinar at https://teacherscollege.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_tvJ3YiJZQ_Km35W-OFGe9g?fbclid=IwAR25_ReuJZaAdvZINRax4xRH1LApLABCC0SLrQCk1wGtXN3Rb5o4m7hsA48
Facebook event at https://fb.me/e/2pPM41OzJ

Join our own REHC Executive Chair Ty McNamee as he moderates this webinar, coordinated by the American Educational Research Association’s Rural Education Special Interest Group! This event will be a great pre-cursor to our own annual symposium, which will also be discussing rural q***r students in education!

Register here:

Welcome! You are invited to join a webinar: Equity & Justice for Q***r and Trans* Rural Students and Educators. After registering, you will receive a confirmation email about joining the webinar. Equity & Justice for Q***r and Trans* Rural Students and Educators

Join REHC Executive Chair Ty McNamee, REHC alum Jenay Willis, past REHC keynote speakers Darris Means and Sonja Ardoin, and more for this exciting (un)conference about rural students!

Register for the University of Georgia's second annual virtual rural student success conference: Exploring Rural Student Identity in America: An unConference on Practice, Research, and Innovation.
Guided by this theme, the 2022 unConference will focus on three core areas: rural student identity, policy impacting rural students, and inclusive curricular and co-curricular pedagogy for the rural student community in higher education. There will be keynote addresses by national experts in these three areas, and opportunities for participants to discuss these topics and more in breakout discussion sessions.

Keynote speakers this year will be Rural Student Identity: Dr. Darris Means - University of Pittsburgh, Dr. Sonja Ardoin - Appalachian State University, Jenay Willis - University of Pittsburgh, Ty McNamee - Teachers College of Columbia; Rural Student Policy: Dr. Stephen Pruitt - Southern Regional Education Board; and Community in Curriculum: Dr. Andrew Crain - University of Georgia.

For more info and to register, go to:

Rural Student Success Unconference | Initiatives | Division of Academic Enhancement Rural Student Success Unconference   Join the University of Georgia for our second annual virtual rural student success conference: Exploring Rural Student Identity in America: An unConference on Practice, Research, and Innovation. Guided by this theme, the 2022 unConference will focus on three cor...

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Hi folx,

Don't forget, our November REHC meeting will be tomorrow, November 30th from 7:00-8:00pm ET via Zoom (https://teacherscollege.zoom.us/j/98471017230; Zoom ID: 984 7101 7230)!

Also, please join us in the Rural Education and Healthcare Coalition for an end-of-semester social! Bring your friends, too!

Friday, December 3rd
11:00am-12:30pm ET
Teachers College, Grace Dodge Hall 179/177

Stop by, have some refreshments, and chat with other people from rural areas at Columbia and students, faculty, and staff interested in rural education and healthcare!

Hi Rural Education and Healthcare Coalition Members,

We hope you are having a great week!

As a reminder, we will be meeting virtually on Zoom for the fall semester. We hope this gives all members and those interested the opportunity to participate in REHC. After soliciting availability from everyone, we found that Tuesdays night were the most popular option.

Our October meeting will be on Tuesday, October 26th from 7:00-8:00pm ET.

Zoom Link: https://teacherscollege.zoom.us/j/92725126985
Zoom ID: 927 2512 6985

Be safe and well!

-Executive Chair: Ty McNamee
-Associate Chair: Cameron Arnzen
-Administrative Chair: Catherine Gaspar

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Hello Rural Education & Healthcare Coalition (REHC) Members,

Welcome back to campus - be it either physically or virtually! As this year’s REHC leadership team, we are excited to welcome both returning and new members, as well as anyone interested in learning more about REHC!

We will be meeting virtually on Zoom for the fall semester. We hope this gives all members and those interested the opportunity to participate in REHC. Our first meeting will be on Thursday, September 23rd from 5:00-6:00pm ET.

Zoom Link: https://teacherscollege.zoom.us/j/93636767400
Zoom ID: 936 3676 7400

We will schedule to meet the third Thursday of every month (but don’t worry, we will send out consistent reminders). In our first meeting, we will go over what this semester will look like, our goals, and any new ideas that you would like to pursue.

If you have any questions, please feel free to email any of us on the leadership team or the REHC email at [email protected].

We look forward to seeing you via Zoom on the 23rd!

-Executive Chair: Ty McNamee ([email protected])
-Associate Chair: Cameron Arnzen ([email protected])
-Administrative Chair: Catherine Gaspar ([email protected])

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The Columbia Daily Spectator featured some of our work as REHC in their podcast! We didn’t know that over 100 years ago, there was another rural club at Teachers College!

Check it out:

Understanding rural education inequity Welcome back to The Ear, Spectator’s podcast dedicated to documenting, excavating, and investigating Columbia’s past and present. In this week’s episode, reporter Natalie Goldberg investigates affirmative action initiatives specific to rural students. When financial strain, inadequate infrastr...