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Community and Economic Development
Graduate Education at Penn State
2008 CEDEV Summer Institute
Schedule
Summer Institute
Topics
The Institute will
consist of five major topic segments (each about 2.5 hours), with a
final session dedicated to emerging issues in community and economic
development.
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Planning, Zoning,
and Development
This section will discuss issues, constraints, and opportunities in
regards to natural resource, community and economic development, and
the concept of sustainability. This series of sessions discusses how
communities are responding to development pressures, especially in
the form of urban expansion, amenity and tourism development, and
energy exploration and development. Pennsylvania case studies will
illustrate a variety of issues related to growth and development.
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Critical
Infrastructure
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Economic and
Workforce Development
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Group Facilitation
and Conflict Management
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Future Directions
and Issues in Community and Economic Development
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Time to meet on
special topics
Diane K. McLaughlin,
Associate Professor of Rural Sociology and Demography, CEDEV
Graduate Program Coordinator, The Penn State University
The first Community and
Economic Development (CEDEV) Summer Institute will explore new areas and
practices in community and economic development, expand on materials
covered in CEDEV courses, and build networks of colleagues in the field.
The emphasis is on interactive learning that combines theory of
community and economic development with application to practice through
real-world examples. The Institute will consist of five major topic
segments, with a final session dedicated to emerging issues in community
and economic development. The topics for the first CEDEV Summer
Institute are based on the responses to the survey of interest.
Sustainability in
Community and Economic Development
Jason L.
Weigle, Doctoral Candidate in Rural Sociology,
The Penn State University
This session covers the concept of sustainability and its potential
impacts for community and economic development. As we end the first
decade of the 21st Century, new issues, constraints, and opportunities
are challenging the boundaries of what we call sustainable. Many
formulations of sustainability imply a linear choice: balancing the
needs of the present against the needs of the future. In reality,
sustainability is more like a labyrinth of choices, with each decision
leading to a new series of choices. From this latter perspective, this
session looks at potential gains and impacts from natural resource
development. In particular, the session will focus on tourism and energy
development and their potential impacts on communities.
 Presentation
Planning, Zoning,
and Development
Judith R. Chambers,
Extension Educator, Community Development and Land Use, Adams
County, PA
Timothy W. Kelsey,
State Program Leader, Economic and Community Development Extension
and Professor of Agricultural Economics, Penn State
Philip
Tarquino, Director, Franklin County Planning
Commission
Planning, zoning and development will discuss issues, constraints, and
opportunities in regards to natural resource use and management,
community and economic development, and the concept of sustainability. A
series of discussions will focus on how communities are responding to
development pressures, especially in the form of urban expansion.
Pennsylvania case studies will illustrate a variety of issues related to
growth and development.
Presentation
Picnic
(6:00 pm until 9:00 pm. Sunset Park)
Wednesday, June 4
Critical
Infrastructure
William C.
Shuffstall, Community Development Educator,
Cooperative Extension and Outreach, The Penn State University
Presentation
Tim King,
Chairman, Alliance for Cooperative Innovation
and President, Geothermal Energy Services, Inc.
Everyone takes infrastructure for granted—that is, until it no longer
functions properly, is at risk of failure, or actually fails – yet, it
is central to community and economic development. Older regions face
problems of replacing aging infrastructure (roads, bridges, electric,
water and sewer) as well as keeping up with technological change
(telecommunications infrastructure). Newer areas have issues of
maintenance and new construction. Infrastructure is the ultimate public
good, which raises the question of how to pay to replace crumbling
facilities or to build and maintain new. A critical infrastructure
program in Pennsylvania offers a new solution to this problem by
bringing together citizens, decision makers, community infrastructure
needs, the private sector and new funding alternatives in the context of
public-private partnerships.
Presentation
Regional
Competitiveness and University-led Economic and Community Development
Dr. Timothy V.
Franklin, Director of the Office of Economic and Workforce
Development for The Penn State University.
Dr. Nancy E.
Franklin, Directory of Strategic Initiatives,
Outreach Special Projects, The Penn State University.
Regions struggling with declining employment and high poverty often find
it difficult to build and energize their economy on their own. One
approach implemented in Southern Virginia used a regional stewarding
institution to combine the resources of a University with local
initiatives to serve as a catalyst for the revitalization of a declining
rural economy through technology commercialization, applied
university-led research, outreach, advanced learning, and advanced
networking and technology. The potential of this innovative approach to
economic and workforce development for other declining regions and
regional development more generally will be explored.
Presentation
Part I
Presentation
Part II
Banquet (reception,
dinner, Dr. White will speak after dinner)
Dr. Jesse L. White,
Jr., Director of the Office of Economic and Business Development and
Adjunct Professor in the School of Government, University of North
Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Presentation
Thursday, June 5
Group Facilitation
and Conflict Management
Liesel Dreisbach-Williams,
Economic and Community Development Extension Educator and County
Extension Director, Northampton County, Pa.
Presentation
James R.
Ladlee, Economic and Community Development
Extension Educator and County Extension Director, Clinton County, Pa.
Successfully working with groups and individuals to identify shared
interests and increase understanding of sources of disagreement is an
essential part of community and economic development. Strategies to
facilitate groups and manage conflict often are learned the hard way—in
community or organizational settings when issues arise. Yet, we all can
benefit by learning what is already known about successful strategies,
hearing about applications in real-world settings and practicing skills
in group facilitation and conflict management.
Presentation
Future Directions
and Issues in Community and Economic Development
Panel - Dr.
Jesse L. White, Jr.; Dr. Theodore R. Alter; Dr. Diane K. McLaughlin
Community and economic development professionals rarely have time to
consider what the future holds for the profession and the work we do.
Many factors influence the balance of local versus regional or national
efforts and whether and how private, non-profit and governmental
resources can be brought to bear on development issues. In addition,
inequality based in historical patterns of development and historical
and current access to resources continues to shape the ability of some
people and areas to prosper while others face severe hardship. How can
community and economic development professionals identify, understand
and respond to these and other diverse and emerging situations
effectively?
Institute Debrief
Discussion of Institute topics and structure, future topics, structure
and goals of the Institute in future years.
For more information on the Summer
Institute contact Natalie Novak, CEDEV Administrative Coordinator at
CEDEVinfo@psu.edu or 814-863-5884.
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