The results are in, and the Penn Staters for Responsible Stewardship slate of candidates has swept the Board of Trustees election. Barbara Doran, Ted Brown, and Bill Oldsey will take office at the next Board meeting in July, unseating incumbents Stephanie Deviney and Paul Suhey, and defeating 34 other candidates.

The Penn State Board of Trustees committee on Legal and Compliance met this afternoon to discuss a number of issues before tomorrow’s full board meeting, including an overview of Penn State’s compliance program and progress on the Freeh Report recommendations.

The Penn State Board of Trustees Committee on Governance and Long-Range Planning met this afternoon and recommended a slew of changes to the university charter, bylaws, and standing orders, in what was described as the “most comprehensive change” made to organizational documents in Penn State’s history.

Taking a page straight out of his predecessor G-Span's book of tricks, President Erickson left us this semester with a cheesy-yet-satisfying Penn State-style video message. Enjoy the rife stereotypes, ill-placed music, epic camera pan outs, and obligatory Commonwealth campus shoutout in the seasonal video.

Rumblings about a HUB expansion have reached a fever pitch in recent weeks, especially with the first specs of the project being revealed on a series of signs in front of the HUB information desk. The Board of Trustees Committee on Finance, Business and Capital Planning discussed the new project in-depth this morning, which will add an additional 54,800 square feet and renovate 52,000 square feet to the HUB-Robeson Center.

With Penn State's online World Campus aiming to more than triple enrollment over the next decade, Penn State announced a $20 million investment today, taken from current World Campus revenues, to expand the program.