Penelope Diebel

Penelope Diebel

Professor and Assistant Dean for Academic Programs, College of Agricultural Sciences
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Office: 541-737-5317

170 SW Waldo Place

Corvallis, OR 97331

Fields: Agribusiness Management, Crop Production Economics, Natural Resource Economics

As Assistant Dean of Academic Program, Penny’s responsibilities include providing leadership and guidance for a variety of services and programs.

Undergraduate and Graduate Student Academics, including:

curriculum development
curriculum assessment
experiential learning opportunity development (internships, research, study abroad, service)
academic advising

Undergraduate and Graduate Student Services, including:

Ag Executive and club support
Agriculture, Forestry, and Natural Resource Ambassadors
student scholarships
academic and student behavior grievances
new student services development
recruitment and retention programs

Faculty and College Support, including:

teaching and advising development and support
international academic partnerships
partnerships with other collegiate institutions
industry partnerships

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Biography

Penny joined the Corvallis campus in September of 2010 after 15 years working for OSU in the OSU Agriculture Program at EOU in La Grande, OR. She became Assistant Dean of Academic Programs for the College of Agricultural Sciences in April of 2013. She has a strong commitment to students and teaching. She has served as advisor and mentor for many students and student clubs, and received several teaching awards. Dr. Diebel ’s research program includes studies on biofuels, no-till/direct seed adoption and assessment of agribusiness student learning outcomes.

Penny was born in central Kansas but was raised in Colorado. She worked for the U.S. Forest Service and the Colorado Parks and Recreation Department after high school and during her early collegiate years. She studied at Colorado State University, receiving a B.S. in Outdoor Recreation Management and later a M.S. in Agricultural and Resource Economics. Penny and her husband moved to Virginia to attend Virginia Tech, where she received her PhD in Agricultural Economics.

Penny and her family, husband Dr. Ken Diebel enjoy working on their small acreage outside of Lebanon where they house a mixture of horses, dogs, and cats. They camp and hike in their spare time. Their two children are both preparing to graduate; one from high school and the other from college in the upcoming year.

Professional Accomplishments

Honors and Awards:

Lead21 Participant, Leadership Development for the 21st Century: Linking Research, Academics and Extension. Fanning Institute, University of Georgia 2007-08
Best Teaching Practices Faculty Center for Teaching and Learning (CTL), Oregon State University, (Web Videos and Materials posted at http://oregonstate.edu/ctl/library/index.htm) 2006
Oregon Writing Project Fellow 2003
Wade Excellence in Teaching Award 2002 A Woman You Should Kno, Committee on Women in Agricultural Economics 2001
Western Agricultural Economics Association Undergraduate Teaching Award: Less than 10 Years 2000
Registry of Distinguished Teachers, College of Agricultural Sciences, Oregon State University 1999

Education:

Ph.D. Agricultural Economics, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University 1990
M.S. and B.S. Colorado State University

Leadership Academy

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Dr. Diebel on the Leadership Academy:

I believe the Leadership Academy offers students an opportunity to work on leadership skills in a guided fashion by using the expertise of faculty and other students. The program offers a comfortable setting to self-examine and reflect on a student strengths and weakness; and to share experiences with others.

I believe in providing students with a variety of opportunities to set themselves apart from others in the job market and in life. I am excited about being a mentor because it gives me the opportunity to share in the student experience, provide what guidance I can, and to learn from them as they explore new paths. I also believe that a student’s success in college can be improved by developing a close professional relationship with at least one faculty on campus. I hope to contribute to students’ leadership development by providing the opportunity to develop that professional relationship and by observing the development strategies of current students in order to share that with students of the future.

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As an undergraduate I did not take a single introductory economics course! It was not until I started an MBA program that I took an economics course. The faculty member teaching that course reached out to me, helped me develop that professional student-faculty relationship, helped me find my niche in an agricultural and resource economics, and lit the fire that grew into my passion of teaching resource economics and working with undergraduate students. To this day he is my role model.

Role at OSU:

My primary responsibility is undergraduate education in the department of Agricultural and Resource Economics. I teach several courses, mentor students, recruit new students, assist in the design of AREC courses and curriculum, and have worked with the department’s undergraduate student club.

I am also involved in several research projects dealing with local topics including no-till/direct seed adoption, the economics of grass seed field burning alternatives, and other natural resource topics. I also try and keep a small research project each year, which involves studies on student preferences and views of distance education, student retention and recruitment to the College of Agricultural Sciences, and other teaching topics.

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