Brief Summary of Minutes of Annual Meeting

Minutes of the 3rd annual meeting of the W1001 multi-state research project Population Change in Rural Communities Las Vegas, Nevada December 2-3, 2005 Friday Nina opened the meeting and members introduced themselves. Minutes from last year's meeting were approved. Linda Fox said the mid-project review was completed with no midcourse corrections recommended. She advised us to keep in mind that this is the FY 2005 meeting; she has made efforts to minimize the confusion. The first date for submission of a new western regional committee proposal is January 2007. Pat Hipple, CSREES liaison in absentia, sent word that the deadline for NRI rural development proposals is February 1, 2006. Two members, Gundars Rudzitis and Joachim Singelman, are planning on submitting a proposal and others were encouraged to consider this funding source. Eddy Berry reported on the status of committee's new series of rural population issue briefs. Seven were promised and four have been submitted so far. All four directors of the regional rural research centers have committed to placing them on their web sites. It was decided to adopt a consistent format and graphic design, modeled on Richard Rathge's completed brief, and to encourage members to complete other submissions. Richard reported on his work on stakeholder involvement. There are different ways to affect policy, depending on the level of government. At the federal level, it's important to tie into formal stakeholder networks already in place. Working with lobbying arms and state delegations raises awareness of our research on the hill. It means we end up on contact lists for work related to population. The pros and cons of different outreach strategies were discussed. How do we make connections at key points? Does it help our group to work individually at the state level? Should we aim for another DC conference? How do we get feedback about what to investigate? How do we market our broad-based research covering migration and other demographic trends, versus work on specific, demographic aspects, such as aging, poverty, housing, or environment? The group agreed to identify groups that are working at the national level, such as NACO or Annie Casey, that have well-established networks. Such an effort could be organized along the committee's three migration-related research themes. The committee then broke into three groups to brainstorm on networking, with the following people leading the discussion: Health and aging: Nina Glasgow Population and environment: Roger Hammer Poverty and inequalities: Marlene Lee Each group reported back on initial thoughts. The sub-groups agreed to continue the discussion and compose a short write-up by next year's meeting that would summarize two elements: 1. What are the key issues, research questions, or particular areas of expertise that we want to base our networking on? 2. What can be done to develop networks? Specifically, what national groups do we want to develop relationships with? In the meantime, the committee agreed to focus on generating the policy brief series: 1. all members should think about contributing a policy brief; 2. Eddy Berry and William Kandel will continue to coordinate the process; 3. Marlene Lee agreed to work on a grant to fund development and dissemination, especially; 4. David Brown agreed to talk with Robin Blakely about possibly serving as series editor; 5. John Cromartie agreed to look into developing a logo; It was decided to hold next year's meeting in Washington, DC, tentatively September 22-23. Marlene agreed to head up local arrangements. In continuing our development of a shared, multi-state research agenda, the committee decided to take a serious look at data sources and to dedicate part of next years meeting to data grounding. Members will make presentations on different data sets that are just coming online or that may have been underutilized so far. Once the committee has identified key research issues and data needs, it will be in a better position to decide if we need to pursue a survey project that would generate data specifically addressing the committees research agenda, and, if so, how the survey would be designed. There is a clear need to study current data to better prepare for addressing new questions. John Cromartie volunteered to coordinate the review of data sources. The committee elected the following new officers: Roger Hammer, chair Alex Vias, vice-chair Eddy Berry agreed to act as senior technical advisor to help write the committees proposal; The business meeting concluded with a round of applause for Nina Glasgow as a show of appreciation for her excellent service as president, especially in dealing with the difficult rearrangements required to hold this meeting. The rest of the meeting was a mini-conference of presentations by committee members of current research findings (see attached agenda). Respectfully submitted, John Cromartie, secretary December 23, 2005

William Kandel and David Brown completed editing a book, Population Change in Rural Society in the 21st Century, which has been published in Springer's demography series edited by Kenneth Land. W1001 members contributed to 14 of the 20 chapters in the volume. W1001 members presented papers at numerous conferences including the Rural Sociological Society Annual Meeting in Tampa; the International Symposium on Society and Resource Management in Östersund, Sweden; the Population Association of America Annual Meeting in Philadelphia; and the Association of American Geographers Annual Meeting in Denver.

Berry, E. Helen. In Press. Rural Utah Ain't What it Used to Be. In Cathleen Zick and Ken Smith (eds.) The Demography of Utah. Logan: University of Utah Press. Brown, Daniel G., Kenneth M. Johnson, Thomas R. Loveland and David M. Theobald. 2005. Rural Land Use Trends in the Coterminous U.S. 1950-2000. Ecological Applications. 15(6): 1851-1863. Brown, David L. and William Kandel. In Press. Rural America through a demographic lense. In W. Kandel and D.L. Brown (eds.), Population Change in Rural Society in the 21st Century. New York: Springer. Brown, David L., Laszlo J. Kulcsar, and Csilla Obabovics. 2005. Post-Socialist Restructuring and Population Redistribution in Hungary. Rural Sociology. 70(3): 336-359. Brown, J. Brian, and Daniel T. Lichter. In Press. Childhood Disadvantage, Adolescent Development, and Prosocial Behavior in Early Adulthood. Advances in Life Course Research 11. Carruthers, J. and Alexander C. Vias. 2005. Capturing Land-Use Effects in Regional Adjustment Models. 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