The Penn State Alumni Association has granted Collegian AIG Treasurer Megan Hennigan the Martin R. Cepeda Jr. Award for Alumni Career Advancement and Development. This award recognizes Megan’s work to launch, develop, coordinate, and promote the Zoom Roundtable programs that she and former AIG President Jordan Hyman created to introduce Read more…
The Collegian AIG sponsored two Zoom Roundtables with experts early in September and more are scheduled for later this fall. The first was held Sept. 6 with digital marketing expert Krystle Kopacz, CEO at Revmade, an award-winning marketing strategy company. That roundtable can be viewed here. The second, held Sept. 13 Read more…
Three New York Times journalists shared experience, advice and insights with about 30 students from The Daily Collegian staff in a Zoom roundtable on Sept. 12 sponsored by The Collegian Alumni Interest Group (AIG). They talked about what drew them to journalism, how the Collegian experience helped them and what Read more…
Three Collegian alumni told current Collegian staffers stories of success and failure informed by their experience at the student newspaper in a March Zoom roundtable sponsored by the Collegian Alumni Interest Group. The roundtable focusing on leveraging mentorships and professional networks featured Lee Womer of LinkedIn, Chuck Hall of business coaching firm Read more…
Three Collegian alumni told current Collegian staffers stories of success and failure informed by their experience at the student newspaper in a March Zoom roundtable sponsored by the Collegian Alumni Interest Group. The roundtable focusing on leveraging mentorships and professional networks featured Lee Womer of LinkedIn, Chuck Hall of business coaching firm Read more…
Author and journalist Michael Weinreb told two dozen students during a Collegian Alumni Interest Group Zoom roundtable in February that his experience working for The Daily Collegian in the 1990s prepared hm for his career, which includes authoring award-winning books and writing screenplays. He said of his fellow Collegian writers, Read more…
Ryan Jones, editor of Penn Stater Magazine, and Jillian Bonnardeaux, counselor for public affairs at the U.S. Embassy in Oslo, Norway, both Penn State graduates and Collegian alums, chatted in November over Zoom with current Collegian staffers about how their experiences on the paper can translate into professional opportunities. James Read more…
The Collegian has announced that it will hire a temporary, part-time news adviser who will be responsible for training student news staff members. The news adviser will focus on improving staff skills in multi-media, digital and social media. The position is for 10 months, beginning this summer. The adviser is Read more…
As Collegian alumni, we remember the challenge of landing that first job after graduation, or finding a great internship between semesters on campus. Today’s graduates and students are facing unprecedented challenges as they seek jobs and internships. We have an opportunity to help new Collegian graduates and Collegian students. Please Read more…
Calling all Collegian alums, from news and business: Think about the work you’re doing right now. Now, think about your time at the Collegian. What do you wish you’d known then? Or what did you learn then that helped you — maybe in some unexpected way — once you graduated? Now, hold that thought.
We’re revamping the Collegian Alumni Interest Group mentoring program, and we’d love for you to be a part of it. If you think you might have some wisdom to offer today’s Collegianaires, and if you might be willing to spare a day in State College meeting with those students in a classroom setting back in the James Building, we (and the Collegian) could use your help. The time frame on this is flexible and can be adjusted depending on the demands of your schedule. What we really need right now are volunteers who might be interested in participating. (more…)