Penn State Great Valley's AACSB-accredited MBA is now offered at Penn State Abington, Penn State Berks, and Penn State at The Navy Yard — allowing graduate students to spend more time learning and less time commuting.
Full-time MBA student Andres Narvaez takes courses both in Malvern and at Penn State at The Navy Yard. Through elective courses, he plans to graduate with certificates in data analytics and new ventures and entrepreneurship.
Chuck and Karen Thomas stand outside the electronics lab in Penn State Great Valley's Innovation Center. Now called the Chuck and Karen Thomas Electronics Lab, the area provides classroom and workspace for students in the regional engineering – multidisciplinary engineering design option and serves as a resource for the REV-UP Center for Entrepreneurship.
Advisory Board member and former part-time faculty member Chuck Thomas and his wife, Karen, have made a commitment to name the Electronics Lab at Penn State Great Valley. The lab provides classroom and working space for students in the regional engineering – multidisciplinary engineering design option and serves as a resource for the REV-UP Center for Entrepreneurship.
Conference planners, corporate organizations, and nonprofit groups now have access to premier meeting space in Philadelphia’s dynamic Navy Yard business campus. Penn State will provide space for academic and business meetings and special functions, with Kristen Footo managing the conference services.
The Sustainable Business Network recently hosted its monthly Entrepreneurs' Roundtable event at Penn State at The Navy Yard. Nonprofits and corporate organizations can utilize the location's conference services to host a variety of events.
Kristen Footo is the conference services manager for both Penn State at The Navy Yard in Philadelphia and Penn State Great Valley in Malvern. Prior to Penn State, Footo worked as the event and building operations manager for Marshall University Foundation Inc.
Employees at the Navy Yard are sharpening their technical and interpersonal skills to become more influential leaders, communicators, and workers — right in their own backyard.
