The Daily Collegian Alumni Interest Group (AIG) Board of Directors has scheduled Aug. 30 through Sept. 6 for the annual, online election to fill four board seats.
The board’s Nominating Committee composed of three current board members, chaired by Glenda Gephart (1976), will interview candidates and recommend a slate. The recommended slate will be posted on this website by July 4.
Candidates must have served in any capacity on the Collegian staff, be members of the Penn State Alumni Association and be willing to serve a three-year term.
Collegian alumni not nominated by the committee, but wishing to serve, may advance their candidacies by sending to the Collegian AIG board a statement of interest, resume and signatures of 20 Collegian AIG members in support of their candidacies. Self-nominations must be received at [email protected] by July 30.
The Collegian AIG board is a working group that promotes The Daily Collegian, its staff and Penn State. The board creates opportunities for the Collegian AIG membership to support the work of Collegian student staff professionally and financially. The AIG also provides Collegian alumni ways to connect with each other for personal and professional enrichment.
Barbara Stack
I started my journalism career at The Daily Collegian, where I covered cops, "radicals and minorities," and served as editorial page editor. After graduation, I worked as a reporter and feature writer for two community papers, The Tribune-Review and the Beaver County Times, before being hired by the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. I worked for the Post-Gazette for 27 years as a reporter, assistant city editor and editorial page writer. For a decade I covered issues regarding children and families, and a series of stories I wrote, along with a court case I persuaded the Post-Gazette to pursue, led to an order opening to the press and public dependency hearings in Pennsylvania juvenile court. In 2007, I began working as a blog writer for the United Steelworkers Union, composing blogs and op-eds that were published in the name of the union's international president. I am now retired and working as a consultant for The Pittsburgh Foundation's communications department.
