February 22, 2017

Leadership this week’s topic on Infinite Opportunities

Contact: Kevin Hensil, khensil@passhe.edu

Infinite Opportunities airs at 9:30 a.m. each Sunday on the Pennsylvania Cable Network. The half-hour, public affairs program features roundtable discussions with faculty, staff, students and alumni from the 14 State System universities talking about a range of higher education issues. State System Chancellor Frank T. Brogan moderates the weekly discussions. Each program also offers viewers the opportunity to “travel” back to the universities to learn more about how they address the various topics on campus.

This week’s panel will feature:

•Julia Snyder, a senior Spanish education and special education major from Kutztown University, who will talk about integrity and selflessness. “To be a good leader, you must constantly be setting a good example,” she says.

•Logan Steigerwalt, a marketing and finance major at Slippery Rock, who will discuss running a productive meeting and maintaining a balance between “on and off-the-clock,” stressing the need to “always address your needs, disconnect yourself sometimes and always remain a positive role-model.”

•Peter Faziani, a doctoral candidate at IUP, who will talk about leadership through “delegation” and “calm rationality.” “Leaders must be willing to listen and be aware of the emotions and intentions of a group,” he says.

Each episode of Infinite Opportunities airs twice on PCN. This week’s program will be rebroadcast at 6 p.m., March 4. Prior episodes, including those from the first two seasons, also can be viewed at www.passhe.edu/InfiniteOpportunities.

Pennsylvania’s State System of Higher Education is the largest provider of higher education in the Commonwealth, enrolling more than 100,000 degree-seeking students and thousands more in certificate and other career-development programs. Collectively, the 14 universities that comprise the State System offer more than 2,300 degree and certificate programs in more than 530 academic areas. Nearly 520,000 State System university alumni live in Pennsylvania.

The State System universities are Bloomsburg, California, Cheyney, Clarion, East Stroudsburg, Edinboro, Indiana, Kutztown, Lock Haven, Mansfield, Millersville, Shippensburg, Slippery Rock and West Chester Universities of Pennsylvania. The universities also operate branch campuses in Oil City (Clarion), Freeport and Punxsutawney (IUP), and Clearfield (Lock Haven), and offer classes and programs at several regional centers, including the Dixon University Center in Harrisburg and in Center City in Philadelphia.