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published Tuesday recommended significant changes to Centre County’s police departments. The Task Force on Policing and Communities of Color spent eight months reviewing local police data and practices from six different departments, including State College, Bellefonte, and Penn State’s campus police. The report recommends police departments overhaul their hiring efforts to diversify units and better represent their communities. It also suggests implementing specialized training for officer...

The university is now surveying students just one week after sending out a similar survey to faculty and staff. Selected students should receive an email with a link to the optional survey that should take about two minutes to complete. In an email, Penn State President Eric Barron said understanding the student body’s COVID-19 vaccine status will help the university plan for the fall semester. “We are all looking forward to being reunited on our campuses this fall, and to do so safely, it...

Search For New PSU President Continues Current University President Eric Barron plans to retire next year. A presidential selection committee is officially launching a national search this month. It comes after thousands of Penn State alumni, faculty, students and others were surveyed on what characteristics they think are important for a University President. More on that leadership profile, along with nomination information is now posted on the Penn State Board of Trustees website.

The town-and-gown Task Force on Policing and Communities of Color released a new report this week reviewing progress made in the last five years and making recommendations to further improve police-community relations in Centre County. When it was originally formed in 2015, the task force focused on the State College Police Department and Penn State University Police and Public Safety. Reconvened last fall, the task force this time also surveyed each of Centre County’s other police forces —...

PSU Continuing to Look for New President Current University President Eric Barron plans to retire next year. A presidential selection committee is officially launching a national search this month. It comes after thousands of Penn State alumni, faculty, students and others were surveyed on what characteristics they think are important for a University President. More on that leadership profile, along with nomination information is now posted on the Penn State Board of Trustees website.

Penn State will lift most masking requirements in university facilities for individuals who are fully vaccinated against COVID-19 on June 28. Non-vaccinated individuals, however, will be required to continue wearing masks inside university buildings after that date, according to a university release on Monday. It was not clear if or how that will be enforced. Following Centers for Disease Control guidance, face coverings will still be required, regardless of vaccination status, on public transp...

Non-vaccinated individuals will need to continue masking inside campus buildings after June 28.

CENTER VALLEY, Pa. (May 25, 2021) — Penn State Lehigh Valley held the Charles W. Dent Blue & White Gala virtually on May 20 to pay tribute to the former Congressman and PSU alumnus for his years of service to the community while raising essential funds for the new PSU-LV Charles W. Dent STEM wing, part of the campus’ $14.4M expansion project.

Penn State President Eric Barron discussed the future of The Arboretum at Penn State and upcoming in-person activities during the season finale of WPSUs "Digging Deeper" Sunday night. During the special, Barron interviewed Kim Steiner, founding director of the Arboretum and Shari Kay Edelson, director of operations for the Arboretum. Penn State ornithologists and volunteers will lead bird migration observation walks starting weekdays next week, according to Edelson. Through the summer on weekda...

Heres another example of this phenomenon in play. Earlier this week, a pair of black Penn State University professors reported a “noose” in a tree behind their house. As reported by the PSU student newspaper Daily Collegian, the professors said the incident was “deeply distressing to them and their family.” The Centre Daily Times notes the profs believed the “noose” was “deliberately placed [on the tree] to harass them.” Responding to the profs’ call about “possible harassm...