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Fireside Chat – March 11, 2019 – Colloquia: Steve Forbes

Joining President LaForge is Steve Forbes, chairman and editor-in-chief of Forbes Media, who served as the guest speaker at this spring’s Delta State University Colloquia: Distinguished Speakers Lecture Series.

For more than 100 years, Forbes Media has focused on discovering up-and-coming business leaders, exploring pivotal moments in history through the lens of entrepreneurship and innovation, and inspiring the game-changers of the world to reach their highest potential. Here are some numbers on Forbes.

  • Forbes maintains a 6.7 million audience readership
  • It has 45 million social media followers
  • Spanning 68 countries and 26 languages, Forbes publishes 38 international editions and has a 1.2 million international circulation
  • Forbes.com reaches 71.1 million online visitors in the United States, up 28% from the previous year.

In other news on campus, it’s spring break this week, so, students, enjoy your much-deserved time off before returning to finish the semester off strong.

In athletic news, the tennis teams will host Dallas Baptist University today at 11 AM. And, softball will host Harding University for a doubleheader starting at 1 PM on Tuesday.

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