The Penn Stater Magazine

Big Ten Network—Not Just Sports?

May 4, 2009 at 1:14 pm Tina Hay Leave a comment

I must confess that I’ve only ever tuned in to the Big Ten Network to see Penn State football and basketball … but apparently they’ve got some non-sports programming as well. Case in point: a roundtable discussion called “The Economy and the Graduate,” which airs tomorrow (Tuesday) night at 7 p.m.

The one-hour show was taped at University Park about two weeks ago before an audience of Penn State students. It features three execs talking partly about what’s going on with the economy in the short run, and partly about advice they’d offer to students and recent grads who are job-hunting in these tough times.

All three of the panelists have Penn State connections:

—Jim Clifton, CEO of Gallup, Inc., has a daughter who attended the Smeal College of Business.

—Karen Peetz ’77, senior executive VP for the Bank of New York Mellon, is a Health and Human Development grad (she was Karen Bretherick as a student).

—John Surma ’76, CEO of U.S. Steel, is a Smeal College grad.

You can watch a preview of tomorrow night’s show below. (Think of it this way: If “The Economy and the Graduate” were a movie opening in theaters, this would be the trailer.)

Tina Hay, editor

Entry filed under: College of Health & Human Development, Graham Spanier, Smeal College of Business, Undergraduate education, University Park campus. Tags: "The Economy and the Graduate", Bank of New York Mellon, Big Ten Network, economic recession, Gallup, Jim Clifton, job market, job-seekers, John Surma, Karen Bretherick, Karen Peetz, new college grads, US Steel.