Benefit from Faculty Expertise
Penn State is recognized around the globe as a distinguished university because of the sterling caliber of its faculty. As a World Campus student in the community and economic development program, you can learn from the same faculty who teach traditional, face-to-face classes on Penn State's University Park campus.
Faculty involved in the CEDEV graduate program have active research projects such as:
- entrepreneurship success
- implications of Marcellus shale development for families and communities
- land-use change and implications for communities
- rural youth out-migration and youth educational, occupational, and residential aspirations
- sustainable farming in rural-urban transition areas
- sustainable forests and forestry
- telecommunications and rural development
- the role of social capital in successful economic development
- the role of the informal economy in rural livelihoods
- energy conservation and low-income assistance programs
Graduate Faculty and Instructors
John Shingler, Ph.D. (Penn State) Research Associate, Co-Director of State Weatherization program Evaluation Project, CEDEV Graduate Program Coordinator and CEDEV Instructor
Charles W. Abdalla, Ph.D. (Michigan State) Professor of Agricultural and Environmental Economics
Theodore R. Alter; Ph.D. (Michigan State) Professor of Agricultural, Environmental, and Regional Economics
Daniel Azzara, Ph.D. (Penn State) Professor of Agribusiness
David Blandford, Ph.D. (Manchester) Professor of Agricultural Economics
Kathryn Brasier, Ph.D. (Wisconsin-Madison) Associate Professor of Rural Sociology
Mark Brennan, Ph.D. (Penn State) Professor of Agricultural and Extension Education and Rural Sociology
Jeffrey Bridger, Ph.D. (Penn State) Senior Scientist and CEDEV Instructor
Judy Chambers (Penn State) Extension Educator and CEDEV Instructor
Michael Fortunato, Ph.D. (Penn State) CEDEV Instructor
Leland l. Glenna, Ph.D. (Missouri) Associate Professor of Rural Sociology and Science, Technology, and Society
Stephan J. Goetz, Ph.D. (Michigan State) Professor of Agricultural and Regional Economics
Clare Hinrichs, Ph.D. (Cornell) Associate Professor of Rural Sociology
Amanda Hope, Ph.D. (West Virginia University) CEDEV Instructor
Jeffrey Hyde, Ph.D. (Purdue) Professor of Agricultural Economics
Leif Jensen, Ph.D. (Wisconsin) Professor of Rural Sociology, Demography, and Sociology
Timothy W. Kelsey, Ph.D. (Michigan) Professor of Agricultural Economics
Diane K. McLaughlin, Ph.D. (Penn State) Retired Professor of Rural Sociology and Demography
Terence Milstead, Ph.D. (Florida State University) CEDEV Instructor
Frans Padt, Ph.D. (Radboud) Senior Lecturer and CEDEV Instructor
Carolyn Sachs, Ph.D. (Kentucky) Professor of Rural Sociology
Ann R. Tickamyer, Ph.D. (North Carolina-Chapel Hill) Professor of Rural Sociology
Jason Weigle, Ph.D. (Penn State) CEDEV Instructor
Bradley R. Woods, Ph.D. (Penn State) CEDEV Instructor and Education Specialist
