Daily News | Philly lawmakers want to have more oversight of Temple’s board of trustees
. Currently, 12 trustees are appointed by the governor and the top officials in the state House and Senate, with four picks each. The others are nominated and elected by the board of trustees.The Philly lawmakers want to increase state-appointed trustees to 15 — giving the governor, House speaker, and Senate president each five appointees. Kenyatta said the lawmakers plan to introduce the bill next week.
“When you bring in people who are new to this, they start asking that perennially important question: Why do we do the things that we do the way that we do them?” Kenyatta said. “That’s the power of injecting new blood.” “The university has been facing difficulties on a variety of fronts including safety, enrollment, and upheaval in university leadership, these facts make it is more important than ever that we step up and provide greater oversight,” the lawmakers said in a memo to fellow House membersTemple is expected to choose an interim president in the coming days before launching a new president search, Board of Trustees Chairman Mitchell Morgan.
Kenyatta said he and his colleagues chose to increase the number of state-appointed members at Temple, rather than all four state-related universities, because they represent the neighborhoods in and around Temple.
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