Download past issues of the Rural Minnesota Journal or individual chapters by clicking on the links below. You can also request a hard copy by contacting the Center.
RMJ: Volume 1, Issue 1, released Winter 2006
RMJ: Volume 1, Issue 2, released Fall 2006
RMJ: Volume 2, Issue 1, released Spring 2007
RMJ: Volume 2, Issue 2, released Fall 2007
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RMJ: Volume 1, Issue 1, released Winter 2006 (complete issue, file size 2.8 Mb) |
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Table of Contents Foreword: U.S. Senator Norm Coleman Acknowledgments Spatially Separated Neighborhoods and Ruralplexes, The Economics of Minnesota’s Ruralplexes The Demographics of Ruralplexes Minnesota Agriculture in the New Millennium Challenge Helps Promote Creativity Representation and Legislative Power: Minnesota County Government: Trends and Tsunamis: Rural Higher Education Rural Minnesota Health Care |
Table of Contents Editor’s Note: Dr. Jack Geller, President, Center for Rural Policy and Development Foreword: Commissioner Alice Seagren, Minn. Department of Education Rural Education in Minnesota Small-Town Education: A Personal Perspective The Minnesota Miracle Abandoned? Changes in Minnesota School Funding, 2001-2007 Risk and Resilience in Rural Minnesota: Helping Our Youngest Citizens Succeed Harvesting the Talents of Minority Students: A Look at Achievement Disparities in Rural Minnesota Schools Minnesota’s K-12 Schools: How Chartered and Other New Ideas are Opening Up the Public School System Expanding and Enhancing Rural Education Through Agricultural Education About Minnesota’s Center for Rural Policy and Development
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RMJ: Volume 2, Issue 1, released Spring 2007 (complete issue, 3.5 mb) “Examining Rural Health Care” |
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Table of Contents (Click the links to download individual articles) Editor’s Note Foreword Simple, Elegant and Flexible: Why I Chose to Be a Rural Family Doctor Health Insurance Coverage and Access to Care Among MinnesotaCare: Key Trends and Challenges Rural Minnesota’s Health Care Workforce: Telehealth in Minnesota: At a Crossroads The Main Street Pharmacy: Becoming an Endangered Species Long-Term Care in Greater Minnesota Measuring and Improving the Quality of Care in Rural Minnesota Hospitals Small Fish in a Big Pond: EMS Issues in Greater Minnesota About Minnesota’s Center for Rural Policy & Development |
Table of Contents (Click the links to download individual articles) Editor’s Note (Includes Table of Contents, Chairman’s Note and Acknowledgments) Institutional Change in Local Governance The Road Not Taken The Rural Education Dilemma Questioning Conventional Wisdom About Minnesota’s Public Schools Performance Management: Improving and Sustaining Performance in Rural Hospitals A Chicken in Every Pot and Broadband for Every Loon: The Potential for Open Access Networks in Minnesota: What Needs to be Done About Big Broadband |
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RMJ: Volume 3, Issue 1: Fall 2008 (complete issue, file size 3.3 Mb) |
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Table of Contents Editor’s Note (Includes Table of Contents and Acknowledgments) The Demographics of Rural Women: Now and the Future “I Always Put Myself Last”: Rural Women and the Challenge of Work-Life Integration Walking in Two Worlds: Helping Immigrant Women Adjust in Rural Minnesota Strengthening Social Capital to Tackle Poverty The Changing Role of Women in Minnesota Agriculture Women’s Work: Productive Aging in Rural Minnesota Women’s Health: Reproductive Health Services in Rural Minnesota Choosing Place First: Remembrances and Observations About Entrepreneurship |
Table of Contents Editor’s note (includes Table of Contents and Acknowledgments) Marnie Werner, RMJ Editor and Research Manager Will New Technologies Preserve Minnesota’s Ethanol Industry? Minnesota Agriculture in the Global Market The Future of Forestry in Minnesota’s Economy Can We Find a 21st Century Approach to Agriculture and Water Resources Policy? Expanding the Effective Use of the Rail System in Rural Minnesota Trapping Greenhouse Gases: A Role for Minnesota Agriculture and Forestry in Climate Change Policy Landowner Attitudes and Perceptions Regarding Wildlife Benefits of the Conservation Reserve Program In Pursuit of a Cure: Searching for Food-Based Cancer Therapies and Preventions at the Hormel Institute
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RMJ: Volume 6: 2011 (See Current Issue) |
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Table of Contents RMJ: Volume 5, 2010 (complete issue) Title, Table of Contents, Acknowledgments Editor’s note Foreword: Greater Minnesota Can Make Minnesota Even Greater Toward a Logical, Equitable and Successful Learning Experience for All Making the Old Economy the New Economy What the Next Governor Needs to Know About Minnesota Agriculture Minnesota’s Rural Health Care: There is no 911 to Call Rural Minnesota Cities at Risk: State Leaders Can Take Steps to Curb the Trend Rural Minnesota and the Great Recession: A Look at St. Cloud and Beyond Memo to the Next Governor of Minnesota: Greater Minnesota is Valuable, Vulnerable and Worthy of Public Investment There are Laws and There are Laws |
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Request a Hard Copy
To receive a copy of RMJ by mail, click here to download, print and fill out an RMJ order form and mail or fax it to:
Center for Rural Policy and Development
Attn: RMJ
PO Box 3185
Mankato, MN 56002
Call the Center at (507) 934-7700.
The cost is $3 per copy to cover postage and handling (for larger orders, we’ll calculate actual postage, plus a small handling fee). Or you can pick them up for free at our office.