Degree, Check!: Earning Your Stripes in the PR World

Degree, Check! Program

8 a.m.

 Registration/Breakfast

 

9 a.m. -

10:45 a.m.

Welcome/Icebreaker/Panel

     Panel Discussion featuring:

-          Entertainment PR

-          Sports PR

-          Corporate

-          Agency

-          Non-profit

 

 

 

11 a.m. -

12 p.m.

 

Session One

       

Special Events with Sara Schumacher, Events Director at the Buffalo Niagara Partnership

 

Mock Interviews (first 25 students to sign up on registration form)

 

  Ethics with Dr. Deborah Silverman, APR Assistant Professor of Communications at Buffalo State College, and member of the PRSA Board of Directors

 

 

 

12:15 p.m. - 1:30 p.m.

Lunch with Keynote speaker Beth Donovan, APR      

     president of PRSA's Buffalo/Niagara Chapter and 

     Director of Public Relations and Special Events,

     Our Lady of Victory

 

 

 

1:45 p.m. – 2:45 p.m.

 

Session Two

      

   Resume/Internship Enhancement

 

   Fund raising with Barbara DeSimone, Assistant Director of Foundation, Niagara County Community College

 

    Diversity with Jeff Patterson, APR

      Director of Communication and Advancement, Health Association of Niagara County

 

3 p.m. -

4 p.m.

Session Three

 

Crisis Management

 

Students look back first year with a panel of recent graduates working in the PR field including:

          Kelly Mazella

          Rosette Albott

          Tim Bulmer

 

Social Media with Joseph Stabb,

     Marketing Specialist/Web Adminstrator,

     Welch Allyn

    

4:15 p.m. - 5:30 p.m.

Fashion Show


 

6 p.m.

Networking Social at Cole's Restaurant and Bar