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Digging Deeper: Student Entrepreneurship

Penn State wants students to think more like entrepreneurs. A new initiative called Invent Penn State is aimed at bolstering the state’s economy AND promoting student career success. How? By getting new ideas out of university labs and into the marketplace.

Join Patty Satalia, Penn State President Eric Barron and guests Steve Sheetz, chairman of the Sheetz Family Council, and Loretta Zeth, Penn State Altoona Business Student, as they talk about entrepreneurship and student career success.

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Posted on January 15, 2015

Eric Barron and Patty Satalia talk to Renata S. Engel, associate vice provost for Online Programs, and David Christiansen, associate vice president for Commonwealth Campuses and senior dean for academic programs, about transforming education and access.

 

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Posted on April 21, 2016

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