The Collegian Alumni Interest Group (AIG) annual meeting on Sept. 12 is open to all Collegian alums. It will be held in the Willard Building, the new home of The Daily Collegian and the Donald P. Bellisario College of Communications. It will begin with a tour of the new media Read more…
Lion Legacy Podcast hosts Jared Melzer and Ross Weisbrot interviewed Collegian Alumni Interest Group Board member Dave Jones, noting that, as a 1954 PSU graduate, he was their most tenured guest. It is the 26th Lion Legacy podcast and can be found here. Jones, who served on the Penn State Read more…
The Collegian Alumni Interest Group (AIG) is conducting an election to fill four seats on the board. The deadline for voting is Aug. 19. All Collegian alumni are eligible to cast ballots. Click here to vote. The AIG nominating committee is recommending reelection of three current board members and election of Read more…
Iris Grossman, senior manager for global communications at Johnson & Johnson and a Daily Collegian alum, told current Collegian students in a Zoom roundtable, “The Collegian set me up to get my first job.” Nancy B. Kennedy, another Collegian alum and a published author of nonfiction books for young adults, Read more…
The board is looking for a diverse group of Collegian alums who are interested in engaging fellow alumni, mentoring current Collegian students and promoting the Collegian. This year, the board sponsored two series of Zoom Roundtables for students, created a mentoring program, provided guidance to the business staff to generate Read more…
On April 15, Jeremiah Hassel, lifestyle editor of The Daily Collegian, moderated a PRIDE discussion over Zoom featuring three outstanding Penn State LGBTQ alums. Speaking that day were Jeffrey Conrad, president and founder of AgIS Capital; Mara Keisling, a 1987 PSU graduate and founding executive director of the National Center for Read more…
Penn State Daily Collegian Lifestyle Editor Becky Marcinko talks about how reporters find and keep good sources with Scott Dodd, senior staff editor on the National Desk of the New York Times, and Len Barcousky, a freelance writer, author and retired journalist. Dodd has worked for newspapers, magazines and digital Read more…
Author, podcaster, personal finance expert and PSU Daily Collegian alum Farnoosh Torabi talks about her career with Collegian Assistant Creative Director Elizabeth Bourque in this new installment of the Collegian Roundtables sponsored by the Collegian Alumni Interest Group (AIG). Torabi graduated from Penn State in 2002 with a bachelor’s of Read more…
The Collegian AIG interviewed Collegian General Manager Wayne Lowman about the recent controversy that erupted publicly over the waiver and indemnification document each staff member is asked to sign. AIG: Over the past month or so, controversy has arisen over the contract that The Collegian asks staff members to sign, Read more…
This has been a tough year for the college students working at The Daily Collegian, and the next semester likely won’t be any better. The COVID-19 shutdowns have forced most of them to work remotely. Meanwhile, they’ve taken classes on computers in their homes far from Happy Valley. They’ve missed Read more…