The State System of Higher Education Board of Governors appointed a new president of Shippensburg University during a special meeting on Friday, but the president of the faculty union called attention to the process by which the president was chosen, and to the evident lack of diversity in recent presidential appointments across the System.
Dr. Jamie Martin says the State System has seen eight presidents leave their positions in the last couple of years, three of them women and two from historically marginalized groups. She says only on woman president remains and the current alignment is nine men, one woman, and only two of the group are from marginalized groups. Two others are ethnically diverse, and Martin says the remaining presidents are white men. She criticized the board for not conducting a national search for the new Shippensburg president, and not following its own policy for naming university presidents.
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