Log In site for public portion of BOT screening committee:

Nitt1300

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Midnighter

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Penn State Board of Trustees committee meeting today (3pm) to determine which qualified candidates they will allow on the Alumni Trustee election ballot.

You can log in to the public portion (livestream) of that meeting here:
https://trustees.psu.edu/wednesday-february-26-2025/

Wait, they're going to publicly review the candidates and determine if they meet their eligibility requirements on a livestream? What is the process here? Does the public get to engage?
 

Erial_Lion

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Surprised that they are actually going to go candidate by candidate now and see who, if anyone, from the sub-committee objects. Interesting.
 

Erial_Lion

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I believe it ended up being 19 candidates that they reviewed. 16 of them were added unopposed. 2 were objected to due to lack of experience, but they didn't have the 2/3 majority to strike them down (Jay voted to keep both of them on the ballot, Ali voted against one of them). And then Barry was the one removed. The optics of this are horrific, but it seems that the BOT answers to no one, and does whatever the hell they want without fear of consequences.

Really not sure where to go from here...this one really is a complete disgrace. I'm not a PA resident so I don't have a congressman to call. As an alum of PSU that has given my fair share of $, has a wardrobe consisting of more PSU stuff than anyone i know, spends a lot of time rooting on and supporting our sports teams, etc, this strikes deep. The BOT doesn't like one of the Trustees, so they come up with new by-laws and find a way to remove him? Hell, I voted against Barry the last go-around, so I'm huge from a Barry supporter. But I am a big supporter in lowering costs, transparency, stopping the "ole boys" network that's running things, etc...so Barry would have gotten my vote.

This really might have been the final straw for me with my alma mater. Absolutely disgraceful that this committee of 9 gets to decide who I'm even able to vote for to represent me. Unfortunately, 95+% of alumni don't know or care about this...but I'm completely shocked that it could really come to this. Any chance that existed of me sending either of my kids to PSU just went out the window today.