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Penn State's Other Cover-up

by William F. Devine
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The connection between the football team owned and operated by the Pennsylvania State University trustees, the University community, and the Sandusky cover-up presents the trustees with important questions about Penn State's purpose.Yet in the months after the Sandusky cover-up becomes front-page news, the trustees refuse to address these questions. Instead they stage a pageant calculated to shield themselves from these questions.Penn State's Other Cover-up presents a documentary case study of that pageant and the compliance, fiduciary duty, conflict of interest, and risk management issues that drive the trustees to produce it.At first the pageant impresses. Ultimately it fools no one. The pageant reveals that the trustees compromise the University's mission and values in the name of football. The pageant reveals that the trustees rewrite truth in the name of football. The pageant reveals that the University sends its graduates into today's broken economy with a shallow value set and a flawed skill set, and, in the name of football and football's cash flow, the trustees are okay with that.The trustees' neglect of mission, truth and students—all for a game based on a leather ball—is distressing.But for a nation whose fate hinges in part on higher education cultivating graduates who can survive and rejuvenate an economy of unprecedented weaknesses, the trustees' game-driven pageant of neglect is not the bad news in this story.The bad news is that Penn State's trustees are not the only trustees working on the pageant.
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Publisher: William F. Devine

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  • ISBN: 9781310567995
  • Release date: June 9, 2014

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Business Politics Nonfiction

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English

The connection between the football team owned and operated by the Pennsylvania State University trustees, the University community, and the Sandusky cover-up presents the trustees with important questions about Penn State's purpose.Yet in the months after the Sandusky cover-up becomes front-page news, the trustees refuse to address these questions. Instead they stage a pageant calculated to shield themselves from these questions.Penn State's Other Cover-up presents a documentary case study of that pageant and the compliance, fiduciary duty, conflict of interest, and risk management issues that drive the trustees to produce it.At first the pageant impresses. Ultimately it fools no one. The pageant reveals that the trustees compromise the University's mission and values in the name of football. The pageant reveals that the trustees rewrite truth in the name of football. The pageant reveals that the University sends its graduates into today's broken economy with a shallow value set and a flawed skill set, and, in the name of football and football's cash flow, the trustees are okay with that.The trustees' neglect of mission, truth and students—all for a game based on a leather ball—is distressing.But for a nation whose fate hinges in part on higher education cultivating graduates who can survive and rejuvenate an economy of unprecedented weaknesses, the trustees' game-driven pageant of neglect is not the bad news in this story.The bad news is that Penn State's trustees are not the only trustees working on the pageant.
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Business Politics Nonfiction