Student Mentoring Events Highlight Alumni Society Board Fall Meeting
The fall meeting of the Alumni Society Board of Penn State's Smeal College of Business will convene next month, with highlights including several different opportunities for alumni to network with current students for mentoring and career counseling.
Student Mentoring Events Highlight Alumni Society Board Fall Meeting
UNIVERSITY PARK, PA (September 20, 2007) – The fall meeting of the Alumni Society Board of Penn State's Smeal College of Business will convene next month, with highlights including several different opportunities for alumni to network with current students for mentoring and career counseling.
The board will hold its semiannual meeting on Oct. 4 and 5 in Smeal's Business Building. The two-day agenda includes three separate occasions designed to connect the board's members with current Smeal students.
On Oct. 4, members of the board will be visiting Smeal classes to share with students their expertise from their years of experience in business. Board members will offer guest lectures and talk with small groups of students about the latest developments in their respective fields.
That evening, the board will meet with members of Smeal's student organizations during the college's Leadership in Focus: Alumni Insights event. Following a reception at 5:30 p.m. in the Business Building Atrium, board members and students will join breakout sessions to discuss business, career, and academic topics selected by the student organizations.
The following day, Alumni Society Board members will have lunch with students in Smeal's Sapphire Program. After lunch, groups of eight students and alumni will evaluate hypothetical situations dealing with academic integrity in light of Smeal's new honor code.
The remainder of the board's fall meeting agenda includes events with the college's Board of Visitors and Accounting Advisory Board, an update on the college from Dean James Thomas, and a briefing on the Nittany Lion Fund, Smeal's $5 million student-managed stock portfolio. The board will also hear updates on Smeal's new undergraduate Web site and development programs.
Following the morning session on Oct. 5, the board will break into its five committees to further its main objectives, including student mentoring, Web connectivity and student communications, business and community relationships, alumni admissions involvement, and the board's awards program.
Smeal's Alumni Society Board is made up of alumni who want to remain connected to the college, network with fellow alumni, and share their career experience with current students. Drawing from the breadth and depth of Smeal's academic program, the diverse group of successful alumni offers its members the opportunity to take on a leadership role in the college through the management of a variety of student mentoring initiatives, strategic task forces, and an awards and recognition program.
More information on the Alumni Society Board is available online at www.smeal.psu.edu/alumni/alumorgs/directors.
REPORTERS & EDITORS: For more information, please contact Wyatt DuBois in the Smeal College of Business Media Relations Office at 814-863-3798 or wed112@psu.edu.
Penn State's Smeal College of Business offers highly ranked undergraduate, MBA, executive MBA, Ph.D., and executive education opportunities to more than 5,500 students at all levels. Featuring academic departments of accounting, finance, marketing, insurance and real estate, management, and supply chain and information systems, the college is also home to major research centers such as the Center for Supply Chain Research, the Institute for the Study of Business Markets, the Center for Digital Transformation, the Farrell Center for Corporate Innovation and Entrepreneurship, the Center for Global Business Studies, and the Center for the Management of Technological and Organizational Change.
