{"id":2,"date":"2010-08-13T14:22:29","date_gmt":"2010-08-13T14:22:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.brandonu.ca\/rural-development\/?page_id=2"},"modified":"2024-03-18T14:47:26","modified_gmt":"2024-03-18T19:47:26","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.brandonu.ca\/rural-development\/","title":{"rendered":"Rural Development"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The establishment of the Department of Rural Development at Brandon University in 1999 was a response to the issues facing rural communities. The Department of Rural Development will increasingly become a resource for affecting change in these communities. The Department offers programs focused on rural studies and rural development that are unique in Western Canada. The Department offers undergraduate majors and a minor in Rural and Community Studies. the undergraduate majors include a cooperative option. Graduate programs include a Master of Arts in Rural Development and a Graduate Diploma in Rural Development.<\/p>\n<p>The Department of Rural Development has a very close relationship to the Rural Development Institute (RDI) and look forward to continuing this relationship with Dr. Wayne Kelly, the new Director of RDI. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.brandonu.ca\/rdi\/person\/wayne-kelly\/\">https:\/\/www.brandonu.ca\/rdi\/person\/wayne-kelly\/\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The establishment of the Department of Rural Development at Brandon University in 1999 was a response to the issues facing rural communities. The Department of Rural Development will increasingly become a resource for affecting change in these communities. The Department offers programs focused on rural studies and rural development that are unique in Western Canada. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":93,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-2","page","type-page","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brandonu.ca\/rural-development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brandonu.ca\/rural-development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brandonu.ca\/rural-development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brandonu.ca\/rural-development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brandonu.ca\/rural-development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2"}],"version-history":[{"count":11,"href":"https:\/\/www.brandonu.ca\/rural-development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":480,"href":"https:\/\/www.brandonu.ca\/rural-development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions\/480"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.brandonu.ca\/rural-development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/93"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.brandonu.ca\/rural-development\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}