The Penn Stater Magazine

Board of Trustees Election 2014

We started our Three Questions project in 2012 because we believe it is important that alumni have as much information as possible about the candidates running for alumni seats on the Board of Trustees. In this, our third year, we’ve asked the following questions, which we hope will help alumni better understand where the candidates stand on some of the major issues and challenges facing Penn State:

1. Describe how you think the relationship between the Board of Trustees and the university president should function.

2. What would you do to help heal the university community and to assist the university as it continues to recover from the Sandusky scandal?

3. What, in your view, are the major fiscal challenges Penn State will face over the next three years—and how should the university address them?

All 31 of the candidates responded. You can find their answers to the questions—along with additional biographical information and links to the candidates’ official biographies and position statements—by clicking on the candidates’ names below. (They are listed in ballot order.) You can also browse responses by question by clicking on each of the questions above.

We’ve also got links to social media sites for each candidate who provided them. Keep in mind that for Facebook and LinkedIn sites, you may need to be logged in yourself to get to a candidate’s page.

Note that while Jesse Arnelle’s name will appear on the ballot, there will be no option to vote for him. He withdrew after the ballot positions were determined, and he remains on the ballot so that everyone else’s ballot number did not need to be changed.

Voting starts Thursday, April 10, and runs through 9 a.m. Eastern Daylight Time Thursday, May 8. All alumni with an email address on file with the university should receive an email with voting credentials. To request a ballot, visit http://www.psu.edu/trustees/2014election.