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Trustee Brian Mosallam Talks Frankly About MSU’s ‘Disengaged’ Board Members
The Larry Nassar mess is a toxic spill that continues to pollute Michigan […]
The Larry Nassar mess is a toxic spill that continues to pollute Michigan […]
The questions Larry Veselka raised about Houston Community College trustee Christopher Oliver in a 2010 report were troubling. After a months-long investigation into multiple HCC trustees, the attorney found that Oliver’s voting on a...
Obtaining information for appropriate oversight is indeed a trustee right. At the same time, handling sensitive information in a responsible manner is essential to maintaining the public trust, especially urgent in this case, given...
State Sen. Jake Corman would love Penn State to join his lawsuit against the NCAA that seeks to void the sanctions and fines the organization levied on the university’s football program in a consent...
College presidents, particularly at four-year public institutions, harbor doubts about the effectiveness of members of the governing boards, according to a new survey by Gallup and Inside Higher Ed. About three-fourths of college presidents...
What can be done to improve governance at Penn State? That’s the question before the Pennsylvania Legislature this week and it’s one legislators can and should address. Concealing information, finger-pointing, sanctions. That’s not the...
When Penn State University needed to fill top positions in 2010 and 2011, administrators didn‘t look far. The university hired members of its board of trustees for jobs that paid six figures without opening...
Graham Spanier repeatedly touted his former position as Penn State president as the best job in American higher education. Why? Perhaps it was because he had a board of trustees that appeared to do...
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