May 12, 2021
State Senate confirms Cheyney University alumnus to the State System's Board of Governors
Contact: Kevin Hensil, khensil@passhe.edu
HARRISBURG, Pa. – Pennsylvania Senators today approved the nomination of Robert W.
Bogle, who serves in a number of leadership roles in the Philadelphia region and leads
the nation’s oldest newspaper serving the African-American community, to Pennsylvania’s
State System of Higher Education’s Board of Governors.
Bogle will be joining five others who received Senate support for reappointment earlier
this year:
• Former state Speaker of the House Samuel H. Smith, who also serves as chair of Indiana
University of Pennsylvania’s Council of Trustees
• Philadelphia-area attorney David M. Maser
• Chester County Commissioner Marian Moskowitz
• Donald E. Houser Jr., a state policy advisor for Berkshire Hathaway Energy GT&S and
a Lock Haven University alumnus who also served on its Council of Trustees
• Neil R. Weaver, executive deputy secretary at the state Department of Community and
Economic Development and an alumnus of Clarion University, where he is also a member
of its Council of Trustees
All appointees received four-year terms.
Bogle is chairman, president, and chief executive officer of The Philadelphia Tribune
and is chair of Cheyney University’s Council of Trustees, where he is also an alumnus.
He brings to the Board extensive public and private sector experience having served
in various roles within the news, education, health care, and business industries
of Philadelphia and beyond.
The Board of Governors is responsible for planning and coordinating the operation
of the State System. The Board establishes broad educational, fiscal, and personnel
policies, and oversees the efficient management of the State System.
As many as 11 members of the Board are appointed by the Governors of Pennsylvania
with the consent of the state Senate. Six of those 11 are to be residents of the Commonwealth
and five shall be selected from the trustees of member universities. No more than
one trustee per university may serve on the Board.
The rest of the Board includes the Governor or a designee; the Secretary of Education
or a designee; two state Senators and two state Representatives appointed by caucus
leaders; and three students selected with consent from university presidents and approved
by the other Board members.
Pennsylvania’s State System of Higher Education oversees 14 four-year public universities
educating more than 93,000 students. The State System offers more than 2,300 degrees
and certificates in more than 530 academic areas. The State System universities are
Bloomsburg, California, Cheyney, Clarion, East Stroudsburg, Edinboro, Indiana, Kutztown,
Lock Haven, Mansfield, Millersville, Shippensburg, Slippery Rock and West Chester
universities of Pennsylvania.