Penn State Creates Ombuds Program for Grad Students

Pennsylvania State University has selected three faculty members to serve as inaugural Ombuds for a new Graduate Student Ombudsperson Program. The new program was developed by the Graduate Council with support from the Graduate School and will serve 14,000 graduate students. Penn State also currently has a University Faculty Ombudsperson, Mohamad A. Ansari.

The three inaugural ombudspersons are: Duncan K.H. Fong, professor of marketing, Smeal College of Business and affiliated professor of statistics, Eberly College of Science; Deb Kerstetter, professor emerita, recreation, park, and tourism management, College of Health and Human Development; and Patrick Lee Plaisance, Don W. Davis Professor in ethics, Donald P. Bellisario College of Communications, and affiliate faculty, Rock Ethics Institute. (PSU News, Grad Student Ombuds.

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