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Graham Spanier. Graham Basil Spanier (born July 18, 1948) is a South African-born American sociologist and university administrator who became the 16th president of Pennsylvania State University on September 1, 1995. On November 9, 2011, in the wake of the Penn State child sex abuse scandal, Spanier and longtime football coach Joe Paterno were ...
In 1983, as Penn State football coach Joe Paterno was being honored for his first national championship, he gave a speech challenging the university's board of trustees to make Penn State number one in academics as well as athletics. He specifically targeted the need for a top-quality library, stating, "Without a great library, you can't have a ...
A few Penn State students, angered over Spanier's role in the 2001 incident as well as his statement of support for Curley and Schultz, created a Facebook page, "Fire Graham Spanier", to call on Penn State's Board of Trustees to fire him. [217] An online petition at change.org calling for Spanier's ouster garnered over 1,700 signatures in four ...
HARRISBURG, Pa. (AP) — Penn State's president when the Jerry Sandusky child molestation scandal erupted may soon be going to jail after Pennsylvania's highest court declined Thursday to hear the ...
Former Penn State president Graham Spanier has reported to jail early to begin serving his sentence for child endangerment in a case... View Article The post Penn State ex-president reports to ...
After his two-year stay at Penn State, he was re-elected to the Girard College Presidency, and then to be the president of the American Bible Society. Allen Street in State College, Pennsylvania and Allen Road on the Penn State University Park campus are named in his honor. 3: John Fraser (c. 1823–1878) [6] [7] 1866 – 1868 (2 years)
Penn State's newspaper readership program provides free copies of USA Today, The New York Times, and local and regional newspapers depending on the campus location. This program, initiated by then-President Graham Spanier in 1997, [138] has since been instituted on several other universities across the country. [139]
In 2008, Graham Spanier successfully argued for the provision in Harrisburg, arguing that open records at Penn State would jeopardize academic excellence and faculty salary competitiveness. Today ...