February 26, 2013 – The Investment Research Challenge team at Penn State Erie, The Behrend College, placed third at the Pittsburgh regional competition for the Chartered Financial Analyst Institute Research Challenge.
March 6, 2013 – Two dozen members of Reality Check, a service club at Penn State Erie, The Behrend College, are spending their spring break at a permaculture farm in Puerto Rico.
As the dinner hour at Dobbins Dining Hall winds to an end, employees take stock of what’s left on the serving line. They stick thermometers into the leftover marinara, Alfredo sauce, and rigatoni. One employee carefully records all of the temperatures while another scoops the food into recyclable aluminum pans.
In Rome, at the Villa Borghese, where Pluto clutches Persephone, a snarling three-headed dog at their feet, Franchesca Fee had a moment of doubt: Maybe I’m not a business major.
The best way to teach business students to be prudent with investments is to give them some real money to spend.
“When you’re working with a mock portfolio and you mess up, there’s no damage done,” said Vincent Intrieri, a 1984 graduate of Penn State Erie, The Behrend College. “But when it’s real money, with real consequences, you focus. You can’t explain it away, saying, ‘Oh, well. My model didn’t work so well.’”
February 26, 2013 – The Investment Research Challenge team at Penn State Erie, The Behrend College, placed third at the Pittsburgh regional competition for the Chartered Financial Analyst Institute Research Challenge.
March 6, 2013 – Two dozen members of Reality Check, a service club at Penn State Erie, The Behrend College, are spending their spring break at a permaculture farm in Puerto Rico.
