Trio of new directors appointed to Penn College Board

Pennsylvania College of Technology’s Board of Directors is getting three new members this month.

The new appointees have been approved by the Corporation for Penn State; Penn College is a special mission affiliate of Penn State with its own board of directors, president, curriculum and accreditation.

The new Penn College Board members are:

• Margo DelliCarpini, vice president for Commonwealth Campuses and executive chancellor at Penn State
• Larry D. Terry II, Penn State’s vice president for outreach
• Randall E. Black, CEO and president of First Citizens Community Bank and a member of the Penn State Board of Trustees.

Retiring from the Penn College Board are:

• Robert N. Pangborn, who retired as vice president and dean for undergraduate education at Penn State in 2020. Pangborn has served on the Penn College Board since 2006.
• Blannie E. Bowen, who retired from Penn State in 2017 as vice provost for academic affairs. Bowen has served on the Penn College Board since 2016.
• Yvonne Gaudelius, who is returning to faculty at Penn State after serving as vice president for undergraduate education. She was appointed to the Penn College Board in July 2022.

Before becoming vice president for Commonwealth Campuses and executive chancellor, DelliCarpini was chancellor and dean of Penn State Abington. Previously, she was vice provost for strategic educational partnerships and dean of the College of Education and Human Development at the University of Texas at San Antonio.

DelliCarpini also served as professor and dean of the College of Education at Morehead State University in Kentucky, and as a professor at Lehman College, part of the City University of New York, where she also served as chair of the Department of Middle and High School Education.

Terry came to Penn State from the University of Virginia, where he served as executive director for the Weldon Cooper Center for Public Service and as a professor in the Frank Batten School of Leadership and Public Policy. Previously, he served as founding director of the SERCH (Service, Education and Research for Communities with Hope) Institute at the University of North Texas, Dallas.

Terry spent years addressing incarceration and police-community relations in the United States. He also served for four years as an assistant professor and founding program coordinator of the Master of Science degree program in public leadership at UNT. Prior to his roles in Dallas, he was an assistant professor of public administration at Long Island University and at Arizona State University.

Black was elected to Penn State’s Board of Trustees by delegates from Agricultural Societies in 2020. He has more than three decades of business and accounting experience and has been with First Citizens Community Bank since 1993.

Black has more than 40 years of hands-on farm experience and still breeds and exhibits dairy cattle. He is a director of the Federal Reserve Bank of Philadelphia and the Pennsylvania Bankers Association and a member of the Pennsylvania Farm Bureau, the Pennsylvania Bankers Association, the American Bankers Association, and the Tioga/Potter Farm Bureau.

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