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Graham Spanier

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Graham Basil Spanier (born July 18, 1948) is a South African-born American sociologist and college administrator who served as the 16th president of Pennsylvania State University, from September 1, 1995, to November 9, 2011, when he was forced to resign in the aftermath of the Penn State child sex abuse scandal. [1]

75 relations: Advisory board, Allentown, Pennsylvania, American Institute of Architects, Apartheid, Association of American Universities, Association of Public and Land-grant Universities, Big Ten Conference, Big Ten Network, Blue Band, Board of directors, Bowl Championship Series, Cape Town, Chancellor (education), Change.org, Chicago, ChildFund, Citizens Financial Group, Dick Thornburgh, Easton, Pennsylvania, FM Global, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, Highland Park High School (Highland Park, Illinois), Highland Park, Illinois, Internet2, Iowa State University, Jerry Sandusky, Joab Thomas, Joe Paterno, Journal of Family Issues, Journal of Marital & Family Therapy, Journal of Marriage and Family, JSTOR, Junior Achievement, KASI, Louis Freeh, National Collegiate Athletic Association, National Security Higher Education Advisory Board, Naval Postgraduate School, Naval War College, Nazi Germany, NCAA Division I, Northwestern University, Oregon State University, Penn State child sex abuse scandal, Penn State World Campus, Pennsylvania State University, Pennsylvania State University - Dickinson Law, Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, Provost (education), ..., Reuters, Rodney Erickson, Schreyer Honors College, Sociology, South Africa, Stony Brook University, The Cambridge Edition of the Letters of Ernest Hemingway, The Chronicle of Higher Education, The Express-Times, The Holocaust, The Morning Call, The Patriot-News, Timothy Curley, U.S. Council on Competitiveness, U.S. Steel, Union of South Africa, United States Department of Education, Universities Research Association, University of Nebraska–Lincoln, WEEF, WOI-DT, Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation, Worldwide Universities Network, 1968 Democratic National Convention, 4-H. Expand index (25 more) »

Advisory board

An advisory board is a body that provides non-binding strategic advice to the management of a corporation, organization, or foundation.

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Allentown, Pennsylvania

Allentown (Pennsylvania Dutch: Allenschteddel) is a city located in Lehigh County, Pennsylvania, United States.

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American Institute of Architects

The American Institute of Architects (AIA) is a professional organization for architects in the United States.

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Apartheid

Apartheid started in 1948 in theUnion of South Africa |year_start.

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Association of American Universities

The Association of American Universities (AAU) is a binational organization of leading research universities devoted to maintaining a strong system of academic research and education.

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Association of Public and Land-grant Universities

The Association of Public and Land-grant Universities (APLU) is a research, policy, and advocacy organization of public research universities, land-grant institutions, state university systems, and higher education organizations.

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Big Ten Conference

The Big Ten Conference (B1G), formerly Western Conference and Big Nine Conference, is the oldest Division I collegiate athletic conference in the United States.

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Big Ten Network

The Big Ten Network (BTN) is an American sports network.

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Blue Band

The Penn State University Marching Blue Band, known generally as the Blue Band, is the marching band of Pennsylvania State University.

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Board of directors

A board of directors is a recognized group of people who jointly oversee the activities of an organization, which can be either a for-profit business, nonprofit organization, or a government agency.

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Bowl Championship Series

The Bowl Championship Series (BCS) was a selection system that created five bowl game match-ups involving ten of the top ranked teams in the NCAA Division I Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS) of American college football, including an opportunity for the top two teams to compete in the BCS National Championship Game.

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Cape Town

Cape Town (Kaapstad,; Xhosa: iKapa) is a coastal city in South Africa.

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Chancellor (education)

A chancellor is a leader of a college or university, usually either the executive or ceremonial head of the university or of a university campus within a university system.

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Change.org

Change.org is a petition website operated by for-profit Change.org, Inc., an American certified B corporation which claims to have over 100 million users and hosts sponsored campaigns for organizations. The company is headquartered in San Francisco, California. The website serves to facilitate petitions by the general public. Corporations including Virgin America, and organizations such as Amnesty International and the Humane Society, pay the site to host and promote their petitions. Change.org's stated mission is to "empower people everywhere to create the change they want to see." Popular topics of Change.org petitions are economic and criminal justice, human rights, education, environmental protection, animals rights, health, and sustainable food.

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Chicago

Chicago, officially the City of Chicago, is the third most populous city in the United States, after New York City and Los Angeles.

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ChildFund

ChildFund, formerly known as Christian Children's Fund, is a child development organization based in Richmond, Virginia, United States.

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Citizens Financial Group

Citizens Financial Group, Inc. is an American bank headquartered in Providence, Rhode Island, which operates in the states of Connecticut, Delaware, Massachusetts, Michigan, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island and Vermont.

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Dick Thornburgh

Richard Lewis Thornburgh (born July 16, 1932) is an American lawyer, author and Republican politician who served as the 41st Governor of Pennsylvania from 1979 to 1987, and then as the U.S. Attorney General from 1988 to 1991.

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Easton, Pennsylvania

Easton is a city in and the county seat of Northampton County, Pennsylvania, United States.

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FM Global

FM Global is a mutual insurance company based in Johnston, Rhode Island, United States, with offices worldwide, that specializes in loss prevention services primarily to large corporations throughout the world in the Highly Protected Risk (HPR) property insurance market sector.

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Harrisburg, Pennsylvania

Harrisburg (Pennsylvania German: Harrisbarrig) is the capital city of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in the United States, and the county seat of Dauphin County.

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Highland Park High School (Highland Park, Illinois)

Highland Park High School (HPHS) is a public four-year high school located in Highland Park, Illinois, a North Shore suburb of Chicago, Illinois, in the United States.

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Highland Park, Illinois

Highland Park is a suburban city in Lake County, Illinois, United States, about north of downtown Chicago.

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Internet2

Internet2 is a not-for-profit United States computer networking consortium led by members from the research and education communities, industry, and government.

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Iowa State University

Iowa State University of Science and Technology, generally referred to as Iowa State, is a public flagship land-grant and space-grant research university located in Ames, Iowa, United States.

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Jerry Sandusky

Gerald Arthur Sandusky (born January 26, 1944) is an American convicted serial rapist, child molester and retired college football coach.

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Joab Thomas

Joab Langston Thomas (February 14, 1933 – March 3, 2014) was an American university administrator and scientist, who served as president of Pennsylvania State University, North Carolina State University and The University of Alabama.

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Joe Paterno

Joseph Vincent Paterno (December 21, 1926 – January 22, 2012), sometimes referred to as JoePa, was an American college football player, athletic director, and coach.

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Journal of Family Issues

Journal of Family Issues is a peer-reviewed academic journal that publishes papers in the field of family studies.

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Journal of Marital & Family Therapy

The Journal of Marital & Family Therapy is a quarterly peer-reviewed academic journal published by Wiley-Blackwell on behalf of the American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy.

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Journal of Marriage and Family

The Journal of Marriage and Family is a peer-reviewed academic journal published by Wiley-Blackwell on behalf of the National Council on Family Relations.

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JSTOR

JSTOR (short for Journal Storage) is a digital library founded in 1995.

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Junior Achievement

Junior Achievement (also JA or JA Worldwide) is a non-profit youth organization founded in 1919 by Horace A. Moses, Theodore Vail, and Winthrop M. Crane.

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KASI

KASI (1430 AM, "News Talk 1430") is a radio station licensed to serve Ames, Iowa.

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Louis Freeh

Louis Joseph Freeh (born January 6, 1950) is an American attorney and former judge who served as the fifth Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation from September 1993 to June 2001.

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National Collegiate Athletic Association

The National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) is a non-profit organization which regulates athletes of 1,281 institutions and conferences.

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National Security Higher Education Advisory Board

The National Security Higher Education Advisory Board (NSHEAB) was created by Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) Director Robert S. Mueller III on December 15, 2005.

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Naval Postgraduate School

The Naval Postgraduate School (NPS) is a graduate school operated by the United States Navy.

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Naval War College

The Naval War College (NWC or NAVWARCOL) is the staff college and "Home of Thought" for the United States Navy at Naval Station Newport in Newport, Rhode Island.

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Nazi Germany

Nazi Germany is the common English name for the period in German history from 1933 to 1945, when Germany was under the dictatorship of Adolf Hitler through the Nazi Party (NSDAP).

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NCAA Division I

NCAA Division I (D-I) is the highest level of intercollegiate athletics sanctioned by the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) in the United States.

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Northwestern University

Northwestern University (NU) is a private research university based in Evanston, Illinois, United States, with other campuses located in Chicago and Doha, Qatar, and academic programs and facilities in Miami, Florida, Washington, D.C., and San Francisco, California.

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Oregon State University

Oregon State University (OSU) is an international, public research university in the northwest United States, located in Corvallis, Oregon.

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Penn State child sex abuse scandal

The Penn State child sex abuse scandal started with Jerry Sandusky, an assistant coach for the Penn State Nittany Lions football team, engaging in sexual abuse of children over a period of at least 15 years.

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Penn State World Campus

Penn State World Campus or "Penn State Online" is the online campus of The Pennsylvania State University.

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Pennsylvania State University

The Pennsylvania State University (commonly referred to as Penn State or PSU) is a state-related, land-grant, doctoral university with campuses and facilities throughout Pennsylvania.

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Pennsylvania State University - Dickinson Law

Penn State Dickinson Law, located in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, is one of two separately accredited law schools of The Pennsylvania State University.

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Pittsburgh

Pittsburgh is a city in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania in the United States, and is the county seat of Allegheny County.

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Pittsburgh Tribune-Review

The Pittsburgh Tribune-Review, also known as "the Trib," was the second largest daily printed newspaper serving metropolitan Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, in the United States until it transitioned to an all-digital format on December 1, 2016.

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Provost (education)

A provost is the senior academic administrator at many institutions of higher education in the United States and Canada, the equivalent of a pro-vice-chancellor at some institutions in the United Kingdom and Ireland, or a Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Academic) at most Australian universities.

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Reuters

Reuters is an international news agency headquartered in London, United Kingdom.

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Rodney Erickson

Rodney Allen Erickson (born 1946) is an American academic administrator who served as the 17th president of Pennsylvania State University from 2011 to 2014.

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Schreyer Honors College

The Schreyer Honors College (or SHC) is the honors program of the Pennsylvania State University.

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Sociology

Sociology is the scientific study of society, patterns of social relationships, social interaction, and culture.

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South Africa

South Africa, officially the Republic of South Africa (RSA), is the southernmost country in Africa.

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Stony Brook University

The State University of New York at Stony Brook (also known as Stony Brook University or SUNY Stony Brook) is a public sea-grant and space-grant research university in the eastern United States.

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The Cambridge Edition of the Letters of Ernest Hemingway

The Cambridge Edition of the Letters of Ernest Hemingway is an ongoing scholarly multi-volume publication of the letters of Ernest Hemingway undertaken by the Cambridge University Press.

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The Chronicle of Higher Education

The Chronicle of Higher Education is a newspaper and website that presents news, information, and jobs for college and university faculty and Student Affairs professionals (staff members and administrators).

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The Express-Times

provides the content appearing in The Express-Times following a company restructure in 2014.

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The Holocaust

The Holocaust, also referred to as the Shoah, was a genocide during World War II in which Nazi Germany, aided by its collaborators, systematically murdered approximately 6 million European Jews, around two-thirds of the Jewish population of Europe, between 1941 and 1945.

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The Morning Call

The Morning Call is a daily newspaper based in Allentown, Pennsylvania, in the United States.

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The Patriot-News

The Patriot-News is the largest newspaper serving the Harrisburg, Pennsylvania metropolitan area.

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Timothy Curley

Timothy M. Curley (born April 28, 1954) is a former athletic director for Penn State University.

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U.S. Council on Competitiveness

The Council on Competitiveness is an American non-profit organization based in Washington, D.C. The Council’s goal is to increase the United States' economic competitiveness in the global marketplace.

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U.S. Steel

United States Steel Corporation, more commonly known as U.S. Steel, is an American integrated steel producer headquartered in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, with production operations in the United States, Canada, and Central Europe.

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Union of South Africa

The Union of South Africa (Unie van Zuid-Afrika, Unie van Suid-Afrika) is the historic predecessor to the present-day Republic of South Africa.

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United States Department of Education

The United States Department of Education (ED or DoED), also referred to as the ED for (the) Education Department, is a Cabinet-level department of the United States government.

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Universities Research Association

The Universities Research Association, Inc. (URA) is a consortium of over 90 leading research-oriented universities primarily in the United States, with members also in Canada, Japan, Italy, and the United Kingdom.

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University of Nebraska–Lincoln

The University of Nebraska–Lincoln, often referred to as Nebraska, UNL or NU, is a public research university in the city of Lincoln, in the state of Nebraska in the Midwestern United States.

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WEEF

WEEF 1430 AM is a radio station licensed to Deerfield, Illinois.

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WOI-DT

WOI-DT is an ABC-affiliated television station serving Des Moines, Iowa, United States that is licensed to Ames.

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Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation

The Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation is a private non-profit operating foundation based in Princeton, New Jersey.

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Worldwide Universities Network

The Worldwide Universities Network (WUN) is an alliance of 23 research-intensive universities.

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1968 Democratic National Convention

The 1968 National Convention of the U.S. Democratic Party was held August 26–29 at the International Amphitheatre in Chicago, Illinois.

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4-H

4-H is a global network of youth organizations whose mission is "engaging youth to reach their fullest potential while advancing the field of youth development".

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