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Randy Newnham

Randy Newnham

Professor of Political Science at Penn State University, Berks; researcher on Russian economic sanctions and foreign policy.

Jun 19, 2026

17:51
What are the other aspects of this reorganization? They
17:55
want to look at low-performing programs and consider closing some of those.
18:00
They had an outside report on that as well, and they came up with metrics for why you would want to close a program, some of which are sort of obvious, like low graduation numbers, low numbers in the program.
18:15
But they were also looking at things like their perception of the job market.
18:20
So they tried to say, well, how many people does the state of Pennsylvania need in global studies? For some of those degrees, it's very hard to get good numbers for that because, of course, that's not usually a job title.
18:35
I'm not looking to hire people to be a global studies person.
18:40
That could go into a lot of different jobs.
23:04
Speak a little bit about how the reorganization is affecting faculty roles, departments, academic governance.

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