RFI Faculty Fellow | Alan Kolok
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RFI Faculty Fellow | Alan Kolok
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- [00:00:00.251]My name's Alan Kolok.
- [00:00:01.221]I am the Director of the Nebraska Watershed Network
- [00:00:03.592]at the University of Nebraska Omaha.
- [00:00:05.489]I'm passionate about rural,
- [00:00:07.020]because the Nebraska Watershed Network,
- [00:00:08.899]the center that I direct,
- [00:00:10.312]is interested in water quality on a national level.
- [00:00:13.960]And when you start looking at watersheds nationwide,
- [00:00:17.331]the vast amount of that water
- [00:00:18.951]is irrigating rural environments.
- [00:00:20.960]The work that I do at the Nebraska Watershed Network
- [00:00:23.451]impacts rural communities because one of the issues
- [00:00:26.709]that many rural communities have
- [00:00:29.040]is rural flight, where the young people
- [00:00:32.021]are moving to urban communities.
- [00:00:34.469]We believe that one way that we can keep rural children
- [00:00:37.680]and young people in the rural environment
- [00:00:40.381]is to make their educational opportunities
- [00:00:43.039]in those communities as robust as they would be
- [00:00:47.055]in an urban community, and the best way to do that
- [00:00:49.984]is through electronic communication.
- [00:00:54.271]So we're developing, literally, a network
- [00:00:56.769]across the state of Nebraska that will combine the expertise
- [00:01:01.700]and the infrastructure of the urban areas,
- [00:01:03.751]principally Omaha and Lincoln,
- [00:01:05.319]and transport that so that children
- [00:01:08.020]and young adults can access that anywhere in the state.
- [00:01:11.431]Becoming an RFI fellow is really important to me
- [00:01:15.449]because in the 21st century we are both confronting problems
- [00:01:21.271]that hadn't existed before.
- [00:01:24.479]What the fellow program at Rural Futures will allow me to do
- [00:01:28.769]is really be on the front wave of that interaction
- [00:01:33.857]between rural communities
- [00:01:35.268]and electronic education and outreach.
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