Despite most of the business at today's Board of Trustees Legal and Compliance committee meeting being conducted in executive session, the twenty minute public meeting provided a few tidbits at what's to come at tomorrows meeting. Notably, Penn State Vice President for Finance and Business David Gray provided the traditional bi-monthly update on the Freeh report recommendation implementation.
In-state students will see a 3.39 percent tuition hike next year when the Board of Trustees proposal is approved at tomorrow's meeting. The trustees are meeting in committee today at Penn State's Fayette campus in Lemont Furnace.
Congress may strip $22 million in federal funding from Penn State's Energy Efficient Buildings Hub, part of the redevelopment of Philadelphia's Navy Yard, according to a Philly.com report. But, Congress isn't likely to pass a budget this year anyway. If it does, about 30 jobs might be lost.
Thomas Shakely, a former Penn State student who served as President & General Manager of The LION 90.7fm and founder of Safeguard Old State, decided that there needed to be a book that told the real story of Mount Nittany, how close we came to losing it, and how the Mount Nittany Conservancy saved it.
Three Penn State trustees have declared their interest to run for the Board of Trustees Vice Chair position at next week's meeting. Trustees Ryan McCombie, Paul Silvus, and Linda Strumpf will run to replace current VP Stephanie Deviney, who lost her reelection bid in May.
An adept administrator, well-liked professor, and one of the Penn State community's most visible online voices announced Tuesday he will accept a new position at Stony Brook University effective Aug. 12.