The former head of the FBI has been hired by the Penn State Board of Trustees to investigate what led up to the current situation with the football coaches.
Whew! The former head of the FBI? I'm a bit incredulous that it would require someone with this experience to identify where systems and policies and processes failed. Is it really possible that a group of trustees this experienced and saavy didn't have decent governing governing policies and processes in place? Isn't it possible (read "likely") that what failed here is not the policies, processes and systems but the people whose loyalties were more to individuals than to the school or its polices & procedures.
I guess we will wait and see, but it strikes me that what we really have here is a board of trustees and people down the line that didn't want to believe and that's what failed. It doesn't take a fancy and expensive investigation to figure this out.
This is of course the challenge to good governance: the human factor.
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