It's official. 39 candidates will be running for three spots on the Penn State Board of Trustees this spring -- way down from the 87 candidates who ran last year.
The candidate ballot for the upcoming Board of Trustees election is set to be selected later this afternoon at the Penn Stater, which is likely to include close to last year's record-breaking 86 candidates.
Despite starting ten minutes late, UPUA sped through the agenda last night and was able to keep the meeting under an hour.
Economics professor Dirk Mateer, known for his popular ECON 102 class, has announced that he is leaving Penn State for the University of Kentucky. Mateer had announced last semester that he was taking a leave this semester, and that it was possible he would not return to Penn State in the Fall.
Congratulations are in order to Penn State's Smeal College of Business, whose MBA program was recently ranked 15th in ethics out of 82 schools as part of Businessweek's Best B-School's Rankings. If the rankings are to be believed, Penn State is more ethical than MBA powerhouses such as Northwestern's Kellogg School of Management, Harvard Business School, Penn's Wharton School and Stanford Graduate School of Business.
A special committee from the Faculty Senate issued a document outlining numerous recommendations for reform in the structure of the Penn State Board of Trustees.