LESSONS & CONNECTIONS BY LOGAN SWEET ’15
SINCE 2013, BREAK THROUGH BOASTS …
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IF REPEATEDLY SHATTERING ATTENDANCE AND PARTICIPATION RECORDS IS AN INDICATION OF A PROGRAM’S SUCCESS, THE ANNUAL STUDENT-ALUMNI CONFERENCE IS ONE OF SUSQUEHANNA’S BEST.
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Hundreds of entry-level, middle management and senior executives converge on Susquehanna’s campus — hailing from around the world and across various professions and industries — to serve career and life lessons to their future alumni community. The recipe for Break Through is simple: multiply students’ eagerness to learn by an insanely devoted alumni base.
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Now in its 10th year, what is now Break Through didn’t just happen overnight. Its inspiration came from departmental and major-specific career days with little cross-campus collaboration and promotion. This often resulted in high alumni attendance with small numbers of students participating. “I was a member of the Sigmund Weis School of Business Student Advisory Board when we developed an earlier version of a networking conference for business students,” says Kyle Robertson ’11, a vice president for J.P. Morgan
