Board of Trustees election results announced
Six incumbent trustees and five new members were elected or appointed to serve on the Penn State Board of Trustees on May 7.Image: Patrick Mansell
Board of Trustees election results announced
May 07, 2021
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. Six incumbent trustees and five new members were elected or appointed to serve on the Penn State Board of Trustees today (May 7).
University alumni elected Alvin de Levie and Steve Wagman as alumni trustees, and re-elected incumbent Brandon Short. Delegates of agricultural societies elected Donald Cairns and re-elected incumbent Chris Hoffman.
Robert Fenza and Mary Lee Schneider were re-elected as trustees representing business and industry. Julie Anna Potts was re-elected as an at-large trustee, while Nicholas Rowland was elected as the board’s academic trustee.
Penn State announces results of elections for alumni-, ag-selected trustees
Updated May 07, 2021;
Posted May 07, 2021
Old Main on the campus of Penn State University on Aug. 11, 2020.
Joe Hermitt | jhermitt@pennlive.com
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One incumbent trustee was defeated in what was one of the closest vote counts in recent years.
The top vote-getter in this year’s election, run from April 10 through May 6, was former Penn State football star Brandon Short, who was first elected to the board in 2018. Short, who graduated from Penn State in 1999, played for 7 years in the NFL and is now a principal in a London-based real estate private equity firm, received 14,299 votes.
Brandon Short, Steven Wagman, and Alvin de Levie have been elected by Penn State alumni to the university’s Board of Trustees. They will begin new three-year terms starting July 1.
The three respectively received 14,299, 9,730, and 9,688 votes from their fellow alumni en route to their elections. They outpaced fellow candidates Jim Bognet, Bridget Lasda and incumbent Laurie Stanell.
Results were announced at Friday’s board meeting. Penn State’s 38-member board includes nine alumni-elected trustees, with terms staggered so three are elected each year.
won re-election after first joining the Board of Trustees in July 2018. You probably know him as a former All-American Penn State linebacker who went on to play in the NFL, too. Off the gridiron, he’s amassed nearly 10 years of experience in real estate investment banking and investment management. Short previously worked for Goldman Sachs, among other firms. Affordability was a key focus of Short’s re-election campaign.
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