BERLIN â Lori Langlois, Ed.D, has been recognized with the 2020 Edward W. Chance Memorial Rural Education Dissertation Award. Langlois is the executive director of North Country Education Services, a non-profit established in 1969 and headquartered in Gorham, whose mission is to collaborate with public schools and community partners to support excellent and equitable educational opportunities throughout the North Country. The honor was bestowed by the National Rural Education Association, the oldest established national organization in the country founded to maintain the vitality of rural school systems. Langloisâ research focused on the residency aspirations of youth in the present-day rural context, looking at how aspirations of youth were influenced by parents, teachers and other influential adults. The study examined how studentsâ desires for careers and future residency were shaped considering significant changes to the local and global economies.