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MillerComm Lecture Series

Children of the Land: Adversity and Success in Rural America

Tuesday, October 19th, 1999
Glen H. Elder, Jr.
7:30 pm

Gregory Hall, Rm 112 810 S. Wright Street Urbana

Event Description

Glen Elder and Rand Conger followed over 400 Iowa children's lives from seventh grade to the post-high school decisions of education, work and family?a generation growing up during the hard times of the 1980s agricultural crisis.

They found despite experiencing adversity associated with heavy economic stress, those children with ties to land fared well in academics and social relationships negotiating pathways to adulthood with the aid of a nexus of small, overlapping worlds consisting of kin, church, school and community.

Elder and Conger argue that the fading agrarian way of life once shared by most Americans provides a rich example of how community nurtures the resiliency that prepares young people particularly well for future challenges.

The Lita Bane Lecture Fund, established in 1959 by Ms. Bane?s siblings, honors her service as head of the UIUC Department of  Home Economics, as state leader in Home Economics Extension, and as associate editor of The Ladies? Home Journal.

Sponsored by: Department of Human and Community Development Lita Bane Lecture Fund

In conjunction with: Department of Agricultural and Consumer Economics, Department of Educational Psychology, Department of Psychology, Department of Sociology, School of Social Work, Women?s Studies Program, University of Illinois Extension, Illinois Farm Bureau

Glen H. Elder, Jr.

Howard W. Odum Distinguished Professor of Sociology and Research Professor of Psychology, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill