Penn State Harrisburg recently presented Alumni Achievement Awards to one graduate of each of the five academic schools who demonstrates outstanding professional accomplishment. The awards were presented during a ceremony on campus in September 2019.
Penn State Harrisburg has selected six graduates to serve as student marshals at the fall 2019 commencement ceremony. The graduates will bear the banners representing each academic school, and together with the faculty marshals lead the graduating students during the ceremony processional.
Penn State Harrisburg will hold its 2019 fall commencement at 9:30 a.m. Saturday, Dec. 21, at the Giant Center in Hershey, Pennsylvania. Heather Neary, president of Auntie Anne’s, the world’s largest soft-pretzel franchise firm, will deliver the keynote address at the ceremony.
Heather Neary, who received a master of business administration from Penn State Harrisburg in 2009 and is president of Auntie Anne’s, the world’s largest soft-pretzel franchise firm with more than 1,800 stores operating nationally and internationally, has been named a Penn State Alumni Fellow by the Penn State Alumni Association.
The Penn State Harrisburg School of Business Administration has announced John Hubley as the school’s first sales executive-in-residence. Hubley has over 25 years of experience in corporate health care sales and marketing.
For the third year in a row, the student chapter of Beta Gamma Sigma (BGS) in Penn State Harrisburg’s School of Business Administration was recognized as a Highest Honors chapter by the AACSB – Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business International.
From benefits to parental childcare leave to equality in the workplace, the world of human resource management is complicated. The world’s largest organization that addresses these complex issues is the Society for Human Resource Management (SHRM). Now business students at Penn State Harrisburg have the opportunity to be a part of SHRM through the new student chapter on campus.
