Got-thisness: “Penn State launches search for University’s 19th president”
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Requirement 1: Willingness to be a puppet to the BOT cabal
Requirement 2: Mastery of woke lingo
End of requirements
Requirement 2: Mastery of woke lingo
End of requirements
Didn't last go round they named a SUNY branch campus president as the next PSU president which made no sense as the person selected had nowhere near the resume to be President at PSU. Then it came out that his nominee had some large skeletons in their closet that basically showed that the BOT and search firm had completely dropped the ball on a background check as it should have been easily found the issues this nominee had.
He was so perfect for the role! Everyone loved him - Kenny, the Romulan, Mr. Potato Head, Ira, Damsel, they just thought he was perfect and even extended an offer and then this little annoying issue cropped up! Imagine the surprise? Can you believe it? He's a padder, a sucker of the NY state teet, a looter. I like this guy says Kenny -- he's a titan of academia I can tell by his habits and love of money!
I can't believe they were so fooled by this guy. You have to feel bad for those who "followed the process" wink, wink at your BOT club members, its like the Micky Mouse Club but better cause you get to keep the money and there are no stage mommies and daddies around. Who did he think he was? Secretly propped up by the Romulan and he forgets to talk about the media finding out about his padding ways? C'mon man. This isn't Pitt. You have to steal and NOT get caught dude.
I still think he would have been great and we would have saved on onion dip - that monthly bill is killing us. There goes Shenango's cafeteria services! I guess I shouldn't be too hard on Barron Von Dipper - Dambly will find the money somewhere.
Now this a PSU President!
What a great moment in PSU history. Let's just all enjoy the memory and savor what might have been!!!
Whoever is running this institution of higher learning has a firm grasp on PSU's zeitgeist.
Fake diplomas. Prostitution arrests. Forged documents. Massage schools accused of feeding illegal business in the US.
A monthslong USA TODAY investigation uncovered two dozen schools with alleged connections to prostitution or fraud, or both.
On the Challenges facing Penn State University Post-Sandusky |
| Penn State University is an extraordinarily successful academic institution, highly ranked, with robust finances and applications for admission breaking all-time records, and with a dedicated faculty who are competitive with the best in the world. Research expenditures consistently exceed $800 million a year in spite of significant declines in federal research funding, our commitment to teaching is noteworthy, and our online undergraduate programs through the World Campus are ranked as the very best in the world. Need-based students graduate at a much higher rate than predicted by organizations that rank the university. Our alumni have demonstrated their commitment to the university as evidenced by a capital campaign that exceeded its $2 billion dollar goal and achieved $530 million dollars in new student scholarships. Our students achieve, whether through national championships, international medals, or competitive fellowships. We can be extremely proud of our institution. And, most importantly, our long-held culture ensures that, despite the level of excellence we have reached, we are not satisfied. Our faculty, our students, our staff and the administration are still reaching higher. My personal pride in this institution could not be greater. Yet these extraordinary accomplishments are rarely the focus of either national or local media, and even many of our alumni do not have a full sense of what we are accomplishing and the level of promise that exists for our future. Instead, recognition of our accomplishments is overshadowed by the actions and reactions that have followed the arrest and ultimate conviction of Jerry Sandusky and by the fact that so many issues of national discussion today are more focused on creating polarity and controversy than they are on providing clarity or finding solutions. For this reason, I believe that I owe you, as your president, a clear description of my views and my thoughts on this important topic. Our commitment to combatting child sexual abuse is unwavering I can think of few crimes more heinous than the sexual assault of a child. The fact is that Jerry Sandusky was convicted of multiple counts of this terrible crime, and sadly, Sandusky was connected to Penn State. We are, as individuals and as an institution, appalled by his actions and we are committed to stronger educational programs focused on child abuse, greater efforts focused on prevention and higher levels of support so that victims have the greatest chance to become survivors. We will strive to become ever better in our efforts, and to be a national leader in this cause. I know of no Penn Stater who feels differently. The judicial process must run its course We also have faced, and continue to face, a trial of the institution in various media reacting to the Freeh report and based on the indictment of three former University administrators. This “pre-trial” appears to have found our institution guilty. Further, the burden of this guilt has somehow been on the shoulders of tens of thousands of employees, students and alumni. The latter is absurd and undeserved. The guilt of the former administrators has not yet been determined in a court of law. Outside of Penn State we repeatedly see cases tried in the media. People are convicted in the court of public opinion, only to find a different outcome when all the facts are presented. Unfortunately, we have to wait impatiently for our judicial process to run its course. Regardless of the wide range of individual opinion or desires, as an institution, it is very difficult to either defend or assail until a judgment based on a full set of facts is rendered. There are significant problems with the Freeh Report The Freeh report presents a number of additional challenges. The report was intended to create an independent assessment, as few would trust an institution’s self-assessment under such high-profile negative attention and serious allegations. Independent investigations are a frequent course of action in such cases. Consequently, this was a logical option for our Board of Trustees. But, the report is limited in significant ways:
I also wish to address the role of the NCAA and the recent settlement in the Corman-NCAA case. In signing the Consent Decree, the University committed that it would not challenge the Consent Decree. With its dissolution, I would like to publicly add my viewpoint on this important settlement. It is a compromise, and with most compromises individuals and organizations on all sides are not completely satisfied. But, I believe it is a significant milestone and well worth supporting for several reasons. The press has focused on the 112 wins, and Joe Paterno’s place in football history, so I will cover that point last. First, the Consent Decree was the basis for the $60 million fine. State officials Corman and McCord sued to keep the $60 million fine in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania through the Endowment Act to support victims of child abuse. Fundamentally, the importance of supporting victims and educational programming related to child abuse controlled the nature of the settlement. The importance of this issue to all parties meant that the Consent Decree would be dissolved with superseding terms rather than repudiated. Second, the Athletics Integrity Agreement (AIA) was left to future discussion between the NCAA, Big Ten, and Penn State with the agreed stipulation that all punitive conditions would be removed. Some have expressed concern that this keeps the monitor in place and questioned whether this fact (as well as payment of the $60 million) is an admission of guilt. The University’s desire to remediate harm is not an admission of guilt. It is much more an act of human concern, compassion and empathy. As stated above, establishing levels of guilt depends on pending criminal cases, not on the terms of a compromise that settled litigation against the University and terminated the Consent Decree. The terms of the compromise have a clear reasoning. First, no party of the settlement wanted to minimize the importance of addressing child abuse. Second, athletic integrity is an appropriate topic for any institution. I have little concern that we may have to continue to have a monitor under the AIA for a while longer. The monitor provides an independent and highly credible voice, external to the University, that has consistently recognized the strength of our ethics and compliance program. With the monitor in place, no one can doubt the quality of our programs and our commitment to doing it right. As to the restoration of wins, I believe that (1) the NCAA should not have stepped outside of its normal infractions process as it inevitably raises questions of fairness and appropriateness, and (2) the actions of Sandusky had no bearing on recruiting or eligibility that would have influenced the outcome of any game, and therefore the wins should not have been removed in the first place. I am also on record stating that I believe that the NCAA had a legitimate interest in the Sandusky matter and that I believe, from speaking with many of the presidents who make up the governance of the NCAA, they acted in good faith based on the overall principles of institutional control. I respect their views even though I believe it was inappropriate for the NCAA to step outside of its infractions process. We must hold each other up, not tear each other down Many issues remain, not the least of which is the polarity surrounding the above topics. A survey of the multitude of lawsuits facing Penn State is instructive. Penn State is being sued both by those who think we did not do enough and by those who think we over-reacted and did too much. The financial impacts are significant, and so is the toll of having this subject a constant focus of the media, particularly in Pennsylvania. As the settlement of the Corman case reached its conclusion, we were equally bombarded by hundreds of emails and social media posts that assailed us for insensitivity and not caring about victims and those that assailed us for not celebrating the return of the football record. Many of the messages Penn State has received over the last several months are the nastiest that I have ever read in my career as an administrator. Sadly, some crossed into the territory of threats that violate the law. And, of course, much of the conflict is occurring in public venues and is reported. Interestingly, a recent alumni survey demonstrated an overwhelmingly high regard of Penn State as an academic institution but, equally interesting, the satisfaction rate was lower in Pennsylvania, with those in Pennsylvania reporting that their greatest source of information was newspapers. Now we realize that Penn State has paid a great price, far greater even than those who imposed the sanctions realized. The University is focused on our mission and we are serving students better than any time in our history, but the sanctions and the resulting drawn out process have created an enduring conflict between Penn State alumni. Although the alumni have the same foundation of love and commitment to Penn State, and the same belief that the Freeh report is limited and an indictment of the culture of thousands of students, faculty, staff and alumni is unwarranted, their views about the right approach to reaching an end of the conflict and gaining an honest accounting of history is very different. For many of the alumni who have put their voice to these issues, there has been little middle ground. Your University will continue to set new achievement records for faculty, staff and students, but the level of conflict among alumni means that, even with the full reversal or approaching end of all sanctions, the healing process will continue to take time. Thank you for reading this rather long letter to you. I will continue to take pride in your accomplishments and I will do my best to navigate Penn State to a place where mission and accomplishment are clear to all. |
| This email was sent to you by the Penn State Office of the President, 201 Old Main, University Park, PA 16801 |
Just hire Gordon Gee and be done with it. He loves to spend money and because he's out of work right now we can get him on the cheap.
There is nothing more fungible than a University president. They’re all the same. Put Teddy Ruxpin in and push the button, and nobody will be able to tell the difference.
Yep, just upgrade to the new model of replicant.
Condoleeza Rice They asked her before so...why not again? Plus since was once on the CFP committee -she might still have some pull.
Whoever is running this institution of higher learning has a firm grasp on PSU's zeitgeist.
Fake diplomas. Prostitution arrests. Forged documents. Massage schools accused of feeding illegal business in the US.
A monthslong USA TODAY investigation uncovered two dozen schools with alleged connections to prostitution or fraud, or both.www.yahoo.com
How does one become a test subject for a massage school? Asking for me.
zero chance they are going to ask Condi Rice. BOT wants somebody they can control and they know that is not her. They know if she came in that the BOT would be gutted and downsized.
Search committee selected a criminal, and I don’t mean Spanier whom I liked, then chose an incompetent, who hired a profligate AD, whose teams finished 39th in a competition it has consistently been in the top 10.
Yea, the committee will get this right.
Yea, the committee will get this right.
You need to show financial responsibility, proof of insurance, and sign a waiver.
Actually it wouldn’t be gutted or downsized as she has no say in the matter. The size of the BoT is not controlled by the office of the President.
As far as your comment about control -there may be some truth to that. But a previous BoT did reach out to her after the Sandusky incident. She indicated at the time she wanted to stay on west coast.
I would love to throw my hat in the ring, but not at this time in life. Although, whoever (whomever), {Still can't recognize which one is correct, maybe that disqualifies me} must be forward focused with understanding of the PSU history. Take the positive lessons that the Paternos' sowed, cultivated and spread thru this Great University in echoing the Universal Truth that we all matter and doing the little things right will take care of the big things.
Shalom.
P.S. Good luck and blessings to the new President
Shalom.
P.S. Good luck and blessings to the new President
Unfortunately, the only real leader the school had is dead (Joe Pa).
So help me God, how about the smartest guy in the physics or engineering department that's normal (or as close to normal as we can get out of that arena)?
Obviously, a degree in any liberal arts field should be an automatic disqualifier. Enough of these losers - they've destroyed us.
That's all that can save us - someone with enough IQ points to say, when the bingo buzzword nonsense starts, "From what I can see, you actually don't know anything, but you're just using ridiculous corporate lingo in an attempt to sound intelligent. It isn't working."
So help me God, how about the smartest guy in the physics or engineering department that's normal (or as close to normal as we can get out of that arena)?
Obviously, a degree in any liberal arts field should be an automatic disqualifier. Enough of these losers - they've destroyed us.
That's all that can save us - someone with enough IQ points to say, when the bingo buzzword nonsense starts, "From what I can see, you actually don't know anything, but you're just using ridiculous corporate lingo in an attempt to sound intelligent. It isn't working."
I shudder to think what unqualified lackey will be hired.
Would be better off digging up and dusting off Bryce Jordan - he was terrific.
LOL...reads like a comedy routine. this was clearly written by a committee
Penn State is a leader in higher education ranking among the top universities in the world with a vibrant community of talented students, faculty, staff and alumni spanning the Commonwealth and world,” said Matt Schuyler, chair of the Penn State Board of Trustees. “We are seeking a collaborative leader with interdisciplinary perspective to continue to move the University’s teaching, research and public service mission forward. The ideal candidate will be dedicated to supporting student success and faculty and staff achievement, while continuing to build on our commitment to access and affordability, elevating our research profile, and advancing diversity, equity and inclusion across our campus communities
This would assume that they are awake from their teenage sleep late day............
true...but again, what have they done to support any kind of positivity or encouragement? The university is worse today than it was in 2011 in just about every way
Sure. I have some spare time. As my first mandate*, the female PSU cheerleaders and Touch of Blue (
) would have to attend a daily five-minute meeting in my office.* I realize I could go blind if I mandate too often.
All is well, as long as they select the "wokest of them all" to ensure that an offensive pronoun is never uttered on the protected space of a University campus.
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