Mentoring Program

Alumni and potential mentors, we need you!

The College of Communications and its Alumni Society coordinate an award-winning alumni/student mentoring program. This program features an annual fall session on the University Park campus and several regional mentoring events each summer and fall. In-person meetings of alumni and students hold the key to the program's success.

Each session typically begins with heavy appetizers or a light dinner. The session then includes roundtables of six to eight people, both students and alumni, divided by major, field of interest and alumni expertise. Those roundtables are followed by a breakout of alumni and students into one-on-one pairs for individual mentoring.

The mentoring program is an excellent opportunity for students to learn more about the career they hope to pursue from an alum, like yourself, with the experience in that field. The students who have been selected for this program are aware that this is not a job placement program; you are not expected to offer the student internships or employment.

To register for upcoming programs or our long-distance mentoring, please complete this form.  

If you have any questions, please feel free to contact Mike Poorman by email or by phone at (814) 865-8801.

2009 Schedule

• Sept. 20, 2009: "Comm Interview Idol & Mentoring Workshop," 6 p.m., Nittany Lion Inn
  The event allows student to meet Penn State alumni for career advice and networking. Free food will be available, and the first 50 students to attend will get a coupon for a free ice cream cone from the Berkey Creamery. As part of the event, three students will be randomly selected to participate in the "Communications Idol" competition. The students will be asked three or four questions in a live, on-stage interview before three judges. The judges will then select one student who will win an interview for a job or internship opportunity at Discovery Networks, Dick Jones Communication, BizBash or Rodale.