{"id":1716,"date":"2019-05-16T09:10:54","date_gmt":"2019-05-16T13:10:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/news.colgate.edu\/magazine\/?p=1716"},"modified":"2019-05-15T23:10:02","modified_gmt":"2019-05-16T03:10:02","slug":"celebrating-the-200th-professional-network-event","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.colgate.edu\/magazine\/2019\/05\/16\/celebrating-the-200th-professional-network-event\/","title":{"rendered":"Celebrating the 200th Professional Network Event"},"content":{"rendered":"

L to R: Gus Coldebella \u201991, Elisabeth Goodridge \u201997, Adonal Foyle \u201998, Christopher Nulty \u201909, Jung Pak \u201996, Gregory J. Fleming \u201985, P\u201921, and Bob Woodruff \u201983, H\u201907, P\u201913<\/em><\/p>\n

If Colgate\u2019s founders could have traveled from 1819 to 1\/8\/19, they would have seen some of the University\u2019s most influential alumni lead the simultaneous celebration for Colgate\u2019s 200th Professional Network Event and the Bicentennial. Seven alumni took to the stage at the TheTimesCenter in Manhattan to engage in a thought-provoking panel discussion.<\/p>\n

Launched in the fall of 2013, Colgate\u2019s Professional Networks (CPN)<\/a> were created to encourage career exploration and growth among students and alumni. Five years and 200 gatherings later, CPN events have become a nationally renowned example of alumni engagement and career support.<\/p>\n

Moderated by award-winning journalist Bob Woodruff \u201983, H\u201907, P\u201913, the panel included Gregory J. Fleming \u201985, P\u201921 (president and CEO of Rockefeller Capital Management); Gus Coldebella \u201991 (Circle chief legal officer); Jung Pak \u201996 (SK-Korea Foundation chair in Korea studies and senior fellow at the Center for East Asia Policy Studies at the Brookings Institution); Elisabeth Goodridge \u201997 (New York Times editorial director); Christopher Nulty \u201909 (Airbnb Americas head of public affairs); and Adonal Foyle \u201998 (author, advocate, and former NBA player).<\/p>\n

In true liberal arts fashion, panelists weighed in on a range of topics related to national cybersecurity, nuclear proliferation, campaign finance reform, geopolitics, the media, and global financial markets. Woodruff guided the conversation, finding connections between seemingly disparate subjects in a way that brought forth thoughtful debate.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere was nothing called cybersecurity when I was at Colgate,\u201d Coldebella said. \u201cBut one of the things that Colgate does such a good job of is preparing its graduates for dealing with change in the world.\u201d<\/p>\n

Pak said she, too, has witnessed tremendous change since her time at Colgate, and she advised current students in the room to follow an educational path that interests them over what might be the current state of the world.<\/p>\n

\u201cLittle did we know that China would rise and become the second-largest economy in the world,\u201d Pak said. \u201cI learned that, when something interests you, just follow it.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Colgate Professional Networks celebrated its 200th event helping alumni meet and collaborate.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1221,"featured_media":1717,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[377,378],"coauthors":[327],"class_list":["post-1716","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-alumni-updates","tag-colgate-professional-networks","tag-cpn"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/palXSH-rG","amp_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/news.colgate.edu\/magazine\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/6\/2019\/05\/010819_CPN_Bicentennial_MDD_568.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.colgate.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1716","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.colgate.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.colgate.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.colgate.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1221"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.colgate.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1716"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/news.colgate.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1716\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1961,"href":"https:\/\/news.colgate.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1716\/revisions\/1961"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.colgate.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1717"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.colgate.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.colgate.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.colgate.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1716"},{"taxonomy":"author","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.colgate.edu\/magazine\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/coauthors?post=1716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}