Governor, school president should be off Penn State board of trustees, auditor general says
Pennsylvania’s governor and Penn State’s president should not serve as voting members of the university’s board of trustees, the state’s elected governmental watchdog said Thursday.
Auditor General Jack Wagner said the Legislature needs to act on his proposal because it is not possible for the university trustees to be objective in restructuring the organization.
Wagner said the university president, currently Rodney Erickson, should not be a member of the board at all, and that the governor, who is now Tom Corbett, should only serve as a non-voting member to address concerns about a potential conflict of interest.
Corbett is a Republican, while Wagner is among the state’s highest-ranking elected Democrats.
Corbett spokesman Kevin Harley was dismissive of the idea. “That sounds like a recommendation from someone who lost a race for governor,” Harley said. A spokesman for Erickson did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
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More: http://blog.pennlive.com/midstate_impact/print.html?entry=/2012/07/governor_school_president_shou.html
Politics is always played, but with any governor on a BOT it raises the stakes.
I hope Corbett gets nailed in one of the ongoing investigations.
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