The Penn State Board of Trustees approved the renaming of Oak Building on the University Park campus in recognition of a $4 million gift by the J. Willard and Alice S. Marriott Foundation.
The Penn State Board of Trustees voted to approve the 2019-20 operating budget and tuition and fees schedules during its full meeting July 18 at Penn State Brandywine. The $6.8 billion budget includes no tuition increase for all Pennsylvania resident undergraduate students for the second year in a row.
The Penn State Board of Trustees voted to re-elect Mark H. Dambly as chair and Matthew W. Schuyler as vice chair during its meeting today (July 18) at Penn State Brandywine.
Penn State Brandywine Chancellor Kristin R. Woolever highlighted the campus’ focus on student engagement and community impact, as well as its aim of providing an accessible and affordable education, during the University’s Board of Trustees meeting held today (July 18) at Brandywine.
The appointment of Bohlin Cywinski Jackson of Wilkes‐Barre, Pennsylvania, as architect for the Liberal Arts Research and Teaching Building to be constructed on the University Park campus was approved today (July 18) by the Penn State Board of Trustees.
The Penn State Board of Trustees approved the selection of Kimmel, Bogrette Architecture + Site of Blue Bell, Pennsylvania, to design a renovation of the Multipurpose Building at Penn State DuBois.
The project to launch Penn State’s new System for Integrated Management, Budgeting and Accounting, or SIMBA, is tracking on time and on budget in anticipation of a July 2020 launch, according to SIMBA project sponsors Mary Lou Ortiz, University budget officer, and Joseph Doncsecz, associate vice president for finance and corporate controller. Both presented an update today (July 18) to the Board of Trustees Committee on Finance, Business and Capital Planning at Penn State Brandywine.
For the second year in a row, Penn State supporters have broken the University’s record for fundraising results, committing $372,555,732 to its current campaign, “A Greater Penn State for 21st Century Excellence” — an increase of 3.1% over last year.
The Penn State Board of Trustees will hold its next public meeting July 18 at Penn State Brandywine. The full board meeting will be streamed live online at http://wpsu.org/trustees/.
The Distinguished Alumni Award, Penn State's highest honor presented to its alumni, recognizes the achievements of outstanding alumni whose “personal lives, professional achievements, and community service exemplify the objectives of their alma mater.” The deadline to submit completed nominations for the 2020 award is Sept. 13.
The Penn State College of the Liberal Arts will significantly enhance the diversity of its faculty and strengthen its scholarly expertise in African American and African Diaspora life and culture when it welcomes nine new faculty members to its ranks on July 1.
The Penn State Board of Trustees Committee on Compensation will hold an off-cycle meeting via conference call at 2 p.m. on June 19.
Eight incumbent trustees and two new members were elected or appointed to serve on the Penn State Board of Trustees today (May 3).
Penn State’s community engagement efforts — including continuing education courses offered at 1,000 companies across the state, a public broadcasting network with one of the largest geographic coverage areas in the country, preservation of 86,000 miles of waterways that flow into the Chesapeake Bay, and collective student volunteer hours totaling 3.9 million hours each year— impact the lives of citizens and help to make Penn State a modern land-grant University, according to Penn State President Eric J. Barron.
On May 3, Penn State Trustees approved a resolution to allow Penn State Health, the University’s health care enterprise, to establish separate credit and borrowing capacity independent of the University. The measure enables Penn State Health to more quickly secure funding for capital projects that are essential to its continued growth and success in a highly competitive health care environment and do so with greater autonomy.
