Thanks to an impressive lineup of programming, the University-licensed PBS affiliate, WPSU, is poised to add even more hardware to the university’s rapidly filling award cabinet.
The Board of Trustees' Committee on Governance and Long-Range Planning unanimously agreed that a student-selected student trustee should sit on the board in a big win for students, and also sparred over the reformation of alumni seats during its long meeting this morning at the Penn Stater.
The Ice Bucket Challenge has sufficiently swept the nation. The latest person to be challenged? The Nittany Lion.
Penn State's Board of Trustees displayed an incredible lack of unity this morning at the Penn Stater, as alumni trustees seated in Dean's Hall bickered with the old guard of the board on the consent decree and fine money.
The Board of Trustees will hold a special meeting Wednesday, to "consider a potential litigation settlement" according to a press release. The meeting will begin via conference call at 8:30 a.m. and will be open to the public for listening and will be streamed at http://www.wpsu.org/live. The board will meet in executive session prior to the public meeting at 8:00 a.m.
The nine alumni-elected trustees on Penn State's board lettered board chairman Keith Masser today, calling for a special meeting to discuss the university's stance on settlement discussions in the NCAA v. Pennsylvania lawsuit and the consent decree that agreed to the NCAA's sanctions.