Lincoln (Neb.) - Sept. 29, 1997 - The next Paul A. Olson Seminar in Great Plains Studies at the University of Nebraska- Lincoln will be "Are Great Plains Communities Dead or Alive? A Panel Discussion."
The seminar will be from 3:30-5 p.m. Oct. 8 in the Great Plains Art Collection in 215 Love Library, 13th and R streets. The seminar and a 3 p.m. reception at the art collection are free and open to the public.
Panelists include Harlow Hyde, budget officer at the Nebraska Department of Health and Human Services and author of the June 1997 Atlantic Monthly article "Slow Death in the Great Plains"; Sharon Gaber, assistant professor of community and regional planning at UNL; and John Austin, research associate at the Bureau of Business Research in UNL's College of Business Administration. The discussion will be moderated by Sam Cordes, professor of agricultural economics and director of the Center for Rural Community Revitalization and Development at UNL.
The seminar will provide a wide-ranging discussion on how to monitor the pulse of rural communities, especially in Nebraska, and what the prognosis for the future might be.
The Olson seminars are sponsored by the Center for Great
Plains Studies at UNL. For more information, call the center at
(402) 472-3082.
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