The Press-Dispatch
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A-8 Wednesday, August 22, 2012 The Press-Dispatch More college graduates coming from Pike County those over 25 years of age had college degrees in Pike County. By 2010, 8.3 percent of adults here had complet- ed college. The percentage of adults enced a brain gain in the last 40 years, joining the rest of the country in what has been a massive increase in the number of adults who have earned college degrees. In 1970, 5.0 percent of Pike County has experi- By Bill Bishop and Roberto Gallardo close to the national average of 28.1 percent. In Pike County, 5.1 per- cent of adults had some col- lege in 1970, rising to 28.5 percent in 2010. The Indiana average in 2010 was 27.6 per- cent. Pike County had 7,446 adults (those over 25 years of age) in 1970 and 9,073 adults in 2010. Overall, Stallmann says, that demand a college di- ploma, so they don't think about coming home once they leave for the university. There can be a "self-rein- the United States with col- lege degrees has nearly tri- pled since 1970, when only 10.7 percent of adults had graduated from college. But the percentage of adults with degrees in counties with small cities and coun- ties, such as Pike County, while increasing, has gener- ally fallen behind the propor- tion of college-educated resi- dents in urban counties. The loss of young, well-ed- ucated residents has posed a long-standing difficulty for rural communities. "One of the problems that with college degrees in Pike County was less than the na- tional average of 27.9 per- cent in 2010. The college- educated rate here was less than the Indiana average of 22.4 percent. The number of adults in adult population in Pike County had failed to grad- uate from high school in 2010. Nationally 15 percent of adults had not completed high school; in Indiana, the rate was 13.8 percent. Mark Partridge, a rural the trends show that "rural people have responded to the demand for increased job skills by the increasing their post secondary educa- tion." Only 16.1 percent of the forcing cycle" in rural com- munities, Stallmann said — young people leave to gain higher education, they don't come back after college be- cause there aren't jobs that demand such education, and their absence diminishes the chances that more of these kinds of jobs will be created. Nationally, rural counties rural areas face is that in order to get a college edu- cation, young people often have to leave," says Judith Stallmann, an economist at the University of Missouri. "Once you leave, that intro- duces you to other oppor- tunities that you might not have seen had you not left." The good news for rural economist at Ohio State Uni- versity, says that regional differences in college gradu- ation rates have increased in recent years. Partridge said his studies have found that rural counties and counties with small cities in the South and West didn't fare as well as those in the Midwest and Northeast in attracting col- lege graduates. Even though the Sunbelt has seen tremen- dous growth over the past few decades, the South's ru- ral counties haven't kept up in terms of attracting adults with college degrees. But the problem of keep- ing college graduates in ru- ral America is a national is- sue and one that is also en- during. Missouri economist Stall- America is that it has caught up in every other measure of education. In 1970, 7.8 percent of and counties with small cit- ies have caught up with ur- ban counties in the percent- age of adults who have some post high school education. Stallmann sees this as a sign that "there are perhaps more jobs in rural areas that re- quire post secondary edu- cation but not college." Both Stallmann and Par- tridge said the data on col- lege education rates told them that rural communities should consider the kind of jobs being created locally. "Rural communities may need to think about the types of jobs being created," Stall- mann said. "There are some communities that are doing things like getting local busi- nesses to put an emphasis on hiring local kids who got a college education." "It really suggests that ru- ral communities that aren't thinking about making themselves attractive to ed- ucated people are really go- ing to suffer," Partridge said. Bill Bishop is co-editor of adults in rural counties had some education after high school, but less than a col- lege degree. By 2010, 27.4 percent of rural adults had attained some post high school education without earning a college diploma. That level of education was mann said this is a reflection of the kinds of jobs that are generally available in rural communities. If there are fewer jobs demanding col- lege degrees in a communi- ty, there are likely to be few- er college graduates. "It's a big deal in a lot of rural counties because you don't see a lot of jobs that re- quire a college education," Stallmann said. Young peo- ple graduating from high school don't see many jobs next to the Silver Dollar Saloon. McCandless said he was trying to get the de- bris back to the sidewalk. City Services Manager Gary McCandless scrapes debris out of the street Partial clean up the Daily Yonder (www.dai- lyyonder.com), an online news publication covering rural America that is pub- lished by the Center for Ru- ral Strategies. The Center for Rural Strategies (www. ruralstrategies.org) is a non- partisan, nonprofit organiza- tion whose mission is to pro- mote healthy civic discourse about rural issues. 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