Breakfast4Success February 2024 - Visions for the Future: Berks College Presidents

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Breakfast4Success - February 2024
All the traditions you know and love about breakfast with the Greater Reading Chamber Alliance! Announcements about upcoming events & opportunities, recognition of new members, and time to network. Most importantly, Breakfast4Success features topic-driven presentations designed to inspire you to achieve your goals, both personally and professionally. 

Visions for the Future: Berks Female College Presidents
For the first time, four institutes of higher learning in Berks County are being led by women, and we are thrilled to welcome them all to kick off our Breakfast4Success program and discuss their Visions for the Future. How are we preparing the next generation for the workforce, and how will the workforce change when this new generation enters? These presidents will address topics of career readiness, soft skills, emerging technology, diversity and inclusion.


Meet our Speakers:
Dr. Jacquelyn Fetrow | Albright College

The first Albright graduate to lead the college, Jacquelyn S. Fetrow, Ph.D. ’82, is Albright College’s 15th president, concurrently holding a chemistry/biochemistry faculty position and serving on several national and local boards. In addition to a successful track record in college academics and administration, Fetrow co-founded a biotechnology so􀅌ware company and played a key role in developing strategy, raising more than $50 million. Holding a doctorate in biological chemistry (Pennsylvania State University) and a Bachelor of Science in biochemistry (Albright College), she is a co-inventor on five U.S. patents and has published over 90 scientific papers.

Dr. Glynis Fitzgerald | Alvernia University

With 25 years of experience in higher education Glynis A. Fitzgerald, Ph.D. became Alvernia University's eighth president and first lay female president in July 2023. During her first year as President, Fitzgerald’s student-centric and community-building approach to higher education has led to increased student retention and expanded capital and scholarship resources. In the previous four years as the university’s Senior Vice President and Provost, Fitzgerald sharpened the focus of faculty work and student success through the creation of a four-college model,  successfully recruited world-class faculty talent, and helped lead the university's strategic efforts to improve student success through transformed pedagogy. Fitzgerald earned a doctoral degree in organizational/interpersonal  communication, a master's in organizational communication from SUNY Buffalo, and a bachelor's degree in speech communication from Edinboro University of Pennsylvania.

Dr. Susan Looney | Reading Area Community College

Prior to becoming the sixth president of Reading Area Community College in 2018, Dr. Looney served in key roles as both an educator and administrator at community colleges in Arizona, Colorado and Delaware. She is the chair of the Reading Hospital Board of Trustees, and serves on the boards of Berks Latino Workforce Development, United Way of Berks County, Greater Reading Chamber Alliance, Berks Alliance and the Greater Berks Development Fund. Nationally, she is a member of the American Association of Community Colleges (AACC) Board and is a member of the Executive Committee for the Middle States Commission on Higher Education.

Dr. Radha Pyati | Penn State University, Berks
Dr. Radha Pyati assumed the position of Chancellor and Dean of Penn State Berks in July 2023. Previously, she was the Dean for the College of Sciences and Mathematics at West Chester University. While at West Chester, Dr. Pyati was awarded a Fulbright Specialist grant to share chemistry education expertise with the students and faculty at the University of Đà Nẵng – University of Science and Education in Vietnam. Prior to her role at West Chester, Dr. Pyati served as Director of the Environmental Center at the University of North Florida, where she was the principal investigator on the State of the River Report for Lower St. Johns River Basin, for which she won the 2018 City of Jacksonville Environmental Protection Board Award of Merit. Dr. Pyati holds a bachelor’s degree in chemistry from Ohio State University and a doctoral degree in chemistry from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. An accomplished researcher, she has authored more than 40 papers, book chapters, and reports in chemistry and environmental science and participated in over 30 research projects as a principal investigator.  


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