Don E. Albrecht

Dr. Albrecht began his role as the Director of the Western Rural Development Center in July 2008.  He received a B.S in Forestry, an M.S. in Sociology from Utah State University and a Ph.D. in Rural Sociology from Iowa State University.  He then served as a member of the faculty at Texas A&M University for 27 years where he worked in the Departments of Rural Sociology and Recreation, Parks, and Tourism Sciences.  He has researched and written extensively on the issues confronting the communities and residents of rural America.  Among the issues explored are natural resource concerns, economic restructuring, demographic trends, poverty, inequality, and education.