PHILLY.COM: Penn State trustees have approved reforms to university governance following the Jerry Sandusky child sex abuse scandal and learned two incumbents on the university’s governing board were voted out by alumni.
The changes approved by the board include removing the state’s governor and the university president as voting trustees.
A board member and a board vice chair lost their seats Friday after facing vocal opposition from critics angered by the board’s actions since the scandal broke in late 2011. Winning election were candidates endorsed by an alumni group critical of university leadership.… (more)
EDITOR: It would have been better to have simply allowed the governor to appoint a representative. A governor on the board wields too much influence; the vote itself is not that consequential. Tom Corbett using Joe Paterno as his scape goat to deflect criticism for Corbett’s failure to prosecute while attorney general was nothing less than despicable. NewsLanc was among the first to say that. It appears by now that has become a popular view.
