Penn State Great Valley and Ardent Credit Union will offer a stress management workshop at The Navy Yard on Thursday, Sept. 21. Participants will learn four steps to quit feeling overworked, over scheduled and overwhelmed.
A weeklong residency program helped prepare 82 students in the newly redesigned Penn State Online MBA Program, which is now led by the Smeal College of Business, for the academic journey that lies ahead of them.
Penn State Online MBA Faculty Chair Glen Kreiner, a professor of management and a John and Becky Surma Dean’s Research Fellow in the Smeal College of Business, evaluates a student project during one of Kreiner's team performance sessions. That class was part of the week-long residency that helped prepare students for the rest of the program.
From August 15–September 30, the Penn State Great Valley Alumni Society will collect professional men's and women's clothing and accessories. Donations will benefit Career Wardrobe, a local nonprofit that uses clothing and professional development to empower unemployed individuals to work.
Penn State Great Valley will launch two noncredit professional development courses in January: Content Marketing and Measuring Marketing Success. Designed for beginners and experienced professionals, the courses will help students create and evaluate a tactical and relevant marketing campaign.
Mohamad Darayi, assistant professor of systems engineering, joins Penn State Great Valley’s engineering division from the University of Oklahoma. This fall, he will teach Decision and Risk Analysis in Engineering and Deterministic Modeling and Simulation.
Leadership development instructor Marc Hanlan draws on past experiences — including flying planes upside down and designing the international space station — to encourage discussion and ignite change in his classroom. He encourages his adult students to do the same.
Working as a staff accountant, Erik Bullock dreamed of being an investment banker. Through Penn State Great Valley's online Master of Finance program, he improved his mathematical and analytical skills — and landed an investment banking job in Los Angeles.
