Kudos to EPE alum Christina Wright whose research on rural community college aspirations was featured in Education Week's Rural Education section:
http://blogs.edweek.org/edweek/rural_education/2012/06/becoming_to_remain_community_college.html
You can read Chris's article published in the Journal of Research in Rural Education here:
http://www.jrre.psu.edu/articles/27-6.pdf