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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 “removed from ...
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)
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 ...
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 ...
Baldwin is an alumnus of Penn State, and served as the president of its alumni association from 1989 to 1991. [6] She also served as Chair of the Penn State Board of Trustees from 2004 to 2007. In January 2010, she was recruited to come to Penn State as the university's first general counsel, establish the Office of General Counsel and assist ...
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]
University President Graham Spanier issued a statement expressing support for both men that said: "Tim Curley and Gary Schultz operate at the highest levels of honesty, integrity and compassion." [6] Spanier was forced to resign by the school's Board of Trustees on November 9, 2011, in part because of this statement. [7] [8]
The Pennsylvania State University was founded on February 22, 1855 by act P.L.46, No.50 of the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania as the Farmers' High School of Pennsylvania. Centre County became the home of the new school when James Irvin of Bellefonte donated 200 acres (809,000 m 2) of land and sold the trustees 200 acres ...