Who is eligible to vote in the Alumni Council election?
All Alumni Association members entitled to vote in Alumni Association elections (as defined by the
Amended and Restated Alumni Association Mission and Bylaws) shall generally vote by email. To vote online, we must have your email address. If you do not receive our monthly e-newsletter AlumnInsider or emails about our events and programs, we probably do not have your email address on file. You can add or delete your email address—or other information such as your street mailing address—
online.
Paper ballots are provided to members on request.
Eligible and Interested Alumni Association Members must complete and submit a Nomination Form by 11:59 pm ET on January 15. The Nominating Committee will report a slate of candidates to the Alumni Council; by March 1, 2024. All nominees will be notified of their selection or rejection to the ballot by late February or early March of 2024. For those individuals selected to stand for election, the Alumni Association staff will work with each candidate to procure biographical information and position statements for use on the election ballot.
Is the Alumni Council election the same as the Penn State Board of Trustees election?
No. These two elections are both held in the spring of each year and Alumni Association members are generally eligible to vote in each. But otherwise, they are completely separate elections for very different governing bodies. Information about the Penn State Board of Trustees members and its election process is available at the
BOT website.
No. Alumni Association policy is to refrain from publicly endorsing, supporting, or campaigning to elect individual candidates to the University’s Board of Trustees or to Alumni Council. The Alumni Association takes the position that all candidates whose name appears on the election ballot for the University’s Board of Trustees and the Alumni Council are worthy of consideration; thus, the Alumni Association would not recommend one or more specific candidate(s) to its large and diverse body of alumni.
Moreover, alumni groups affiliated with the Alumni Association also refrain from endorsing specific candidates. The Alumni Association does, however, promote the full slate of candidates for each election in order to encourage greater University alumni participation in both elections and encourages its affiliate groups to do the same.