Center for Rural Education and Communities

Center for Rural Education and Communities

Empowering Rural Education, Enriching Communities

The Center on Rural Education and Communities (CREC) connects research, outreach, and community partnerships to address the unique challenges and opportunities facing rural education in Pennsylvania and beyond.

Rural farm town in autumn in the valleys and hills of the Appalachian Mountains

What We Do
School kids engaging with their local community by volunteering to help with donations.

Rural Institutions and Organizations
Crowd of professionals clapping for award winners.

Building Community through Rural Education Award
Yellow school bus crossing a bridge in a rural town.

Journal of Research in Rural Education
Rural landscape with blue sky.

What is Rural?
Open Book on wood table and blurred bookshelf in the background

Who We Are

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