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confirmed at the conclusion of Friday’s Board of Trustees meeting.
“It has been my greatest professional honor to serve as president of Penn State and to be able to collaborate with and learn from our amazing faculty, staff and students every day,” Barron, the university’s 18th president, said. “Together, we have elevated Penn State as a leader in higher education poised to meet the future and to attract the best and brightest students.”
In March, the Board of Trustees will begin a phased approach to selecting Penn State’s next president. Plans will kick off by receiving input from “key stakeholders,” including faculty, staff, and students, to determine what qualities they’d want in a future leader.
Penn State President Eric Barron announced on Friday that he will retire at the conclusion of his current contract in June 2022, with the university’s Board of Trustees taking a phased approach over the next 16 months to select his successor.
Barron, a former faculty member and dean in the university’s College of Earth and Mineral Sciences, returned to Penn State in May 2014 to become its 18th president following the retirement of Rodney Erickson. His appointment came in the still tumultuous wake of the Jerry Sandusky scandal that forced out former President Graham Spanier.
“It has been my greatest professional honor to serve as president of Penn State and to be able to collaborate with and learn from our amazing faculty, staff and students every day,” Barron said. “Together, we have elevated Penn State as a leader in higher education poised to meet the future and to attract the best and brightest students,”