PSU BOT Committee Meetings tomorrow (1/18/24)

[PSUFTG2]

Sorry for the late notice:
PSU Board of Trustees Committee meetings tomorrow (1/18/24)

The following committees will be meeting via ZOOM, with public able to log in as well.
Committees meeting are: Governance / Legal / Outreach / Academics / and Human Resources.

Some important topics to be discussed. Links to meetings can be found here:

https://trustees.psu.edu/board-and-committee-meetings-2024/

I will, of course, post some information and thoughts after the meetings.

 

[BobPSU92]

Go get us a win, Barry!

 

[Anon1690805700]

Please find out what really happened with Joe's Statue and when the crumbs intend to properly honor the man.

He has been exonerated, by all but our lousy BoT.

 

[Nitt1300]

Will look forward to hearing from you and the other eight.

Don't think I'll hold my breath to hear from the other eight.

 

[LionJim]

Thank you for your service, Barry.

 

[DELion]

I feel so much more confident in Penn State's leadership after reviewing the meeting agenda:

"Aligned with President Bendapudi's goal on growing interdisciplinary research excellence, provide a review and update on progress of strategic communications' support through a holistic approach to storytelling"

What a bunch of gobbledygook.

 

[StamfordBridgeVikingatLeftOffensiveTackle]

I feel so much more confident in Penn State's leadership after reviewing the meeting agenda:

"Aligned with President Bendapudi's goal on growing interdisciplinary research excellence, provide a review and update on progress of strategic communications' support through a holistic approach to storytelling"

What a bunch of gobbledygook.

No surprise. She was a marketing professor. This is what marketing endorses as an approach to best sell a bill of goods.

 

[psuro]

I feel so much more confident in Penn State's leadership after reviewing the meeting agenda:

"Aligned with President Bendapudi's goal on growing interdisciplinary research excellence, provide a review and update on progress of strategic communications' support through a holistic approach to storytelling"

What a bunch of gobbledygook.

What would you have liked to have seen to replace this statement?

 

[Achowalogan]

I feel so much more confident in Penn State's leadership after reviewing the meeting agenda:

"Aligned with President Bendapudi's goal on growing interdisciplinary research excellence, provide a review and update on progress of strategic communications' support through a holistic approach to storytelling"

What a bunch of gobbledygook.

“Storytelling”…like the “stories” that were told after 11.9/11 ?

 

[Keyser Soze 16802]

“Storytelling”…like the “stories” that were told after 11.9/11 ?

Fables and myths

 

[BobPSU92]

What would you have liked to have seen to replace this statement?

How about this?

”Aligned with President Bendapudi's goal of growing interdisciplinary research excellence, provide a review and update on strategic communications”

Granted, it lacks context on its own, but it’s streamlined here.

 

[TiogaLion]

This one should be fun to observe.

Committee on Governance and Long-Range Planning
Meeting Agenda
Thursday, January 18, 2024
2:00 – 2:30 p.m. Eastern
Via Zoom
Public Session
1. Call to Order (J. Potts)
2. Approval of September 7, 2023 Meeting Minutes (J. Potts)
3. Review of Informational Reports (J. Potts)
- Expense Report from the September and November 2023 Board of Trustees
meetings are available for review on the Board website
- 2023 Board of Trustees Skills & Demographics Report
4. Governance Working Group Status Report (J. Potts)
5. Adjournment (J. Potts)

 

[PSU Mike]

I feel so much more confident in Penn State's leadership after reviewing the meeting agenda:

"Aligned with President Bendapudi's goal on growing interdisciplinary research excellence, provide a review and update on progress of strategic communications' support through a holistic approach to storytelling"

What a bunch of gobbledygook.

Let me take a crack at this baby, all under the assumption that the elements in it belong in the same sentence. Holistic in this context is usually summoned because reliance on any measurable status (and change in status toward a goal) of interdisciplinary research excellence won’t impress you, so we need to obfuscate the true signal with some things that will make you think things are better than rational thought alone yields. We have a team of experts (should strategic communications be capitalized?) that are really good at distraction, and you (the Board) will be our testing ground for the effectiveness of their bull$h!t we want to unleash on the broader public.

 

[PSUFTG2]

Some interesting events/topics during committee meetings Will be sharing later.

 

[GrimReaper]

What would you have liked to have seen to replace this statement?

Eliminate it. The concept of "growing interdisciplinary research excellence" is largely vacuous.

 

[StamfordBridgeVikingatLeftOffensiveTackle]

Eliminate it. The concept of "growing interdisciplinary research excellence" is largely vacuous.

They can't resist. Another one - PSU should trademark the stem "innovat." It seems like every other initiative or name on a building references innovate, innovating, innovation, or innovative. PSU is renovating more than it's innovating.

 

[BobPSU92]

Eliminate it. The concept of "growing interdisciplinary research excellence" is largely vacuous.

Sometimes research is done in a vacuum.

 

[StamfordBridgeVikingatLeftOffensiveTackle]

Sometimes research is done in a vacuum.

 

[kgilbert78]

Sometimes research is done in a vacuum.

Mine was, back in the day.... (replaced with an actual picture from my lab).

 

[BobPSU92]

Mine was, back in the day....

Same. Undergraduate and graduate research.

 

[kgilbert78]

Same. Undergraduate and graduate research.

What area (generally)?? Mine was boron and transition metal chemistry

 

[PSUFTG2]

FWIW: Video of one of the meetings (Governance Committee)

I believe the meeting gets a bit more interesting around the 12-13 minute mark:

Committee on Governance and Long-Range Planning Meeting - Penn State MediaSpace (kaltura.com)



ADDED:

FWIW: Video of one of the PSU BOT committee meetings of 1/18/24 (Legal Committee)
My comments begin around the 13:15 minute mark:

https://psu.mediaspace.kaltura.com/media/Committee+on+Legal+and+Compliance+Meeting/1_dkohm2zh

 

[StamfordBridgeVikingatLeftOffensiveTackle]

FWIW: Video of one of the meetings (Governance Committee)

I believe the meeting gets a bit more interesting around the 12-13 minute mark:

Committee on Governance and Long-Range Planning Meeting - Penn State MediaSpace (kaltura.com)

A lot of emphasis on the "Comprehensive Code of Conduct." Be careful Barry. You should just review the game film for now. Then, get your chisel out and start hacking away like Michelangelo.

 

[PSUFTG2]

FWIW: Video of one of the PSU BOT committee meetings of 1/18/24 (Academic Affairs)
My comments begin around the 34:30 minute mark:

https://psu.mediaspace.kaltura.com/...+Research+and+Student+Life+Meeting/1_h4vgghrd

 

[Bkmtnittany1]

Is there still huge supply of onion dip at these meetings?

 

[GrimReaper]

Is there still huge supply of onion dip at these meetings?

I'd need a huge supply of Jack to get me through a meeting like that, but looks like the other members, Barry excepted of course, got to the rickhouse ahead of me.

 

[BobPSU92]

What was the final score? Did we win?

 

[BobPSU92]

Is there still huge supply of onion dip at these meetings?

 

[Nitt1300]

What was the final score? Did we win?

of course not

 

[PSUFTG2]

What was the final score? Did we win?

We scored a few runs

 

[Bkmtnittany1]

What was the final score? Did we win?

We lost! Clifford threw a pick-6!!

 

[LB99]

We lost! Clifford threw a pick-6!!

They should play Allar.

 

[Bkmtnittany1]

They should play Allar.

And make sure Pribula gets 10 plays!

 

[PSU Mike]

THE Kenneth Arrow is indeed dead, Barry. Or is there another Arrow?

 

[LB99]

And make sure Pribula gets 10 plays!

The coaches are idiots. Clearly Smolik is the guy to play.

 

[BobPSU92]

We lost! Clifford threw a pick-6!!

Paul Clifford.

 

[Bkmtnittany1]

Paul Clifford.

Clifford Clavin!

 

[BW Lion]

No surprise. She was a marketing professor. This is what marketing endorses as an approach to best sell a bill of goods.

That’s very judgmental of you.

 

[Anon1690805700]

Please find out what really happened with Joe's Statue and when the crumbs intend to properly honor the man.

He has been exonerated, by all but our lousy BoT.

What about Joe and the statue?