Instead of canceling classes, Penn State sent out an alert message advising students to "use caution." Senior Vice President for Finance and Business David Gray admits, "We missed on this one."
UPUA President Terry Ford spent much of the fall semester discussing CAPS as a primary Student Fee Board project, so this agenda item comes as no surprise.
"Represent Penn State’s aspirational principles of diversity and inclusion in a permanent interpretive work without reinforcing stereotypes or excluding any underrepresented constituency."
Any undergraduate or graduate student can apply to serve the two-year term as a voting member of the Board of Trustees.
Penn State's first president Evan Pugh was born in 1828 at Jordan Bank Farm, three miles south of the city center of Oxford, Pennsylvania, an hour west of Philadelphia in Chester County. One-hundred eighty-nine years later, an Oxford brewery is honoring one of the preeminent champions of "liberal and practical" higher education in the form of a delicious Porter.
Penn State has filed a countersuit against former President Graham Spanier, claiming he breached his employment contract and fiduciary duties and misled the university about the extent of his knowledge about the child sexual abuse investigation of Jerry Sandusky.