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