How Far to Go? Community Influences on Youth Educational Aspirations in Rural, Resource-Dependent Places

Nicole R. Bernsen; Mindy S. Crandall; Jessica E. Leahy; Catharine Biddle

doi:10.7758/RSF.2022.8.3.08

Article Information

vol. 8 no. 3 189-207

DOI

https://doi.org/10.7758/RSF.2022.8.3.08

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RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences

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2377-8253

Online ISSN

2377-8261

History

Published online May 12, 2022.

© 2022 Russell Sage Foundation. Bernsen, Nicole R., Mindy S. Crandall, Jessica E. Leahy, and Catharine Biddle. 2022. “How Far to Go? Community Influences on Youth Educational Aspirations in Rural, Resource-Dependent Places.” RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences 8(3): 189–207. DOI: 10.7758/RSF.2022.8.3.08. This research was funded by the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s National Institute of Food and Agriculture grant number 2017-67023-26240 and supported by the University of Maine System’s Research Reinvestment Fund. The authors thank Alexa Carleton of the Coos Watershed Association, University of Maine undergraduate research assistants Angelina Buzzelli of the Business School and Liz Capodilupo of Wildlife Ecology, our local steering committees in Maine and Oregon, and the many community partners who helped make this project a success. While they made it a success, the project would not have been possible without the more than two thousand rural youth who shared their feelings and hopes for the future with us: thank you. In addition, the authors thank three anonymous reviewers as well as the editors of this special issue: Shelley Clark of McGill University, Sam Harper of McGill University, and Bruce Weber of Oregon State University. Their comments greatly improved this article. Direct correspondence to: Nicole R. Bernsen, at nrbernsen@alaska.edu, 1890 Tanana Loop, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, AK 99775, United States; Mindy S. Crandall, at mindy.crandall@oregonstate.edu, 216 Peavy Forest Science Center, Oregon State University, Corvallis OR 97331, United States; Jessica E. Leahy, at jessica.leahy@maine.edu, 5755 Nutting Hall, University of Maine, Orono, ME 04469, United States; Catharine Biddle, at catharine.biddle@maine.edu, 333 Merrill Hall, University of Maine, Orono, ME 04469, United States. Open Access Policy: RSF: The Russell Sage Foundation Journal of the Social Sciences is an open access journal. This article is published under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License.

Author Information

Nicole R. Bernsen^a,
Mindy S. Crandall^b,
Jessica E. Leahy^c and
Catharine Biddle^d

^aAssistant director for Athletics Academic Services at the University of Alaska Fairbanks in Fairbanks, United States
^bAssistant professor of Forest Policy in the Department of Forest Engineering, Resources, and Management at Oregon State University, Corvallis, United States
^cProfessor of human dimensions of Natural Resources in the School of Forest Resources at the University of Maine in Orono, United States
^dAssociate professor of educational leadership in the College of Education and Human Development at the University of Maine in Orono, United States

Correspondence authors:
Nicole R. Bernsen, (nrbernsen{at}alaska.edu), Mindy S. Crandall, (crandall{at}oregonstate.edu), Jessica E. Leahy, (jessica.leahy{at}maine.edu), Catharine Biddle, (catharine.biddle{at}maine.edu)

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