Board Of Trustees

The Los Angeles Community College District Board of Trustees has hired the president of the College of San Mateo for a key position on the district's management team. Peter J. Landsberger will fill the new post of interim vice chancellor of human resources, in charge of carrying out a major reform effort begun last year to help put the district's finances in order. Landsberger, 52, has been president in San Mateo for seven years. "I wasn't seriously considering leaving," he said.

The Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles announced Wednesday that it has added three people to its board of trustees. Their election comes at a still-vulnerable time for the museum, which has been dealing with financial problems in recent years. Among the new trustees is Bruce Karatz, former chairman and chief executive of KB Home. Eli Broad, who was a founder of the home-building company, is a founding chairman and life trustee of the museum. Karatz's wife, Lilly, is also a MOCA trustee.

The Los Angeles Community College District is overseen by seven elected trustees. The part-time positions pay $24,000 a year plus health benefits. Sylvia Scott-Hayes 58, Highland Park Former Cal State L.A. administrator and executive recruiter for colleges Background: Long active in Eastside politics Trustee since: 1990 Tina Park 28, Koreatown Former New York Stock Exchange auditor Background: The only trustee who has not collected campaign contributions from contractors working on the bond program Trustee since: May 2009 Nancy Pearlman 62, Pico-Robertson Environmental activist, producer and host of educational programming for TV and radio Background: Former Green Party activist Trustee since: 2001 Mona Field 57, Eagle Rock Retired political science professor, Glendale Community College Background: A strong supporter of faculty unions Trustee since: 1999 Miguel Santiago 37, Canoga Park Political consultant Background: Managed the successful 2009 congressional campaign of Rep. Judy Chu (D-Monterey Park)

Forrest N. Shumway, a law-trained businessman who expanded his uncle's Signal Oil & Gas Co. from a local operation into one of the country's most powerful, diverse business conglomerates, has died. He was 85. Shumway, who helped engineer the merger that created Allied-Signal Corp. while also serving on USC's board of trustees, died of complications of cancer at his La Jolla home on Dec. 4, said his son Garrett. Born March 21, 1927 in Skowhegan, Maine, Shumway joined the Marines after high school and went on to get his bachelor's in political science and a law degree, both from Stanford University.

The Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles announced Wednesday that it has added three people to its board of trustees. Their election comes at a still-vulnerable time for the museum, which has been dealing with financial problems in recent years. Among the new trustees is Bruce Karatz, former chairman and chief executive of KB Home. Eli Broad, who was a founder of the home-building company, is a founding chairman and life trustee of the museum. Karatz's wife, Lilly, is also a MOCA trustee.

Joe Paterno shifts uncomfortably on the couch of his office at Penn State University and makes a confession about his holier-than-thou image. "It scares the heck out of me," booms the hallowed football coach. "Because I know I'm not that clean. Nobody is that clean." "I don't want to appear to be any more than I am," says Paterno, now speaking in a near whisper. "And that's a good, hard-working coach who is a decent guy, a family guy, who doesn't want to cheat." "I lose my temper sometimes.

Three candidates are running for a vacant seat on the board of the Buena Park School District in the Nov. 3 election. The unexpired term was held by Trustee Charles M. Menzies, who resigned earlier this year. Board President Barbara Fagins and Trustee Lloyd G. Davis were not challenged and therefore will assume new terms automatically. Robert Flewelling Age: 70. Occupation: Retired educational administrator and researcher.

Following a week in which John Baldessari, Catherine Opie and Barbara Kruger all resigned from the board of trustees at Los Angeles' Museum of Contemporary Art, Ed Ruscha has also resigned, leaving no artists remaining on the museum's board. The artist's wife, Danna Ruscha, posted the following comment on the Facebook page of L.A. Times art critic Christopher Knight, beneath a piece he wrote on the pivotal role of artists in shaping MOCA historically and the warning sent by the current exodus: "‎Christopher Knight, Ed has resigned.

Nearly 8 million Americans go to work every day yet still live below the poverty line. That is in part because the federal minimum wage is too low. Currently, an individual with a full-time job at the minimum wage and a family of three to support will fall below the federal poverty line. These workers, despite putting in regular hours, are struggling to provide basic necessities for themselves and their families. By allowing the minimum wage to remain at a nearly unlivable level, we have deemed certain jobs not worthy enough to meet even our country's minimum standard of living.

Dee Dee Myers, President Clinton's former press secretary, was named Friday to the board that runs the California State University system. Gov. Gray Davis appointed Myers, 37, of Los Angeles, to the Cal State Board of Trustees. The board oversees the Cal State system, which has 22 campuses and 270,000 students. Board members do not receive a salary, but are paid for expenses. Myers was the president's press secretary from 1993 until 1994.

The politicians who oversee the Los Angeles community colleges just won a large measure of protection from voters and other inconveniences of democracy thanks to a bad bill that on Saturday became a bad law. Gov. Jerry Brown signed AB 2572, a bill deceptively modest in its language but astonishing in its audacity. It's a kind of incumbent protection plan for entrenched members of L.A.'s Community College District Board of Trustees, and it comes to their rescue in the wake of last year's revelations of massive waste and corruption in district construction programs - and just as voters may be ready to focus on the ineptitude of the elected trustees who oversaw it. Under the new law, runoff elections are swept away, supposedly to save money, and an incumbent can now keep his or her seat (and yes, a challenger can now get elected)

Following a week in which John Baldessari, Catherine Opie and Barbara Kruger all resigned from the board of trustees at Los Angeles' Museum of Contemporary Art, Ed Ruscha has also resigned, leaving no artists remaining on the museum's board. The artist's wife, Danna Ruscha, posted the following comment on the Facebook page of L.A. Times art critic Christopher Knight, beneath a piece he wrote on the pivotal role of artists in shaping MOCA historically and the warning sent by the current exodus: "‎Christopher Knight, Ed has resigned.

The leaders of the Museum of Contemporary Art's board of trustees said Friday that chief curator Paul Schimmel resigned and was not fired, as The Times and other news outlets had reported. Board co-chairs Maria Bell and David Johnson said that Schimmel announced his resignation to both of them Monday. "Paul wanted to resign, we reported that to the board, and the official resignation came through today," Bell said. "This is something that has been a general discussion for some time," said Johnson.

Once again addressing the controversial issue of executive pay, a panel of the California State University Board of Trustees voted Tuesday to freeze state-funded pay for new campus presidents but allow individual college foundations to raise funds to boost those salaries. The nonprofit campus foundations would be able to augment taxpayer-funded pay for new executives up to 10% above that of their predecessor. The policy would be reviewed in 2014. Four members of the Special Committee on Presidential Selection and Compensation meeting in Long Beach voted for the change, with one member absent.

Joe Paterno's 46-year run as one of college football's most respected and successful coaches ended abruptly and ingloriously Wednesday night when Penn State's Board of Trustees, in an executive session, fired Paterno and school President Graham Spanier in the wake of a child-abuse sex scandal that has rocked the campus and the nation. John P. Surma, vice chairman of the board, said the decision was unanimous. "It was necessary for us to make a change in leadership and set a course for a new direction," Surma said.

The Los Angeles Community College District is overseen by seven elected trustees. The part-time positions pay $24,000 a year plus health benefits. Sylvia Scott-Hayes 58, Highland Park Former Cal State L.A. administrator and executive recruiter for colleges Background: Long active in Eastside politics Trustee since: 1990 Tina Park 28, Koreatown Former New York Stock Exchange auditor Background: The only trustee who has not collected campaign contributions from contractors working on the bond program Trustee since: May 2009 Nancy Pearlman 62, Pico-Robertson Environmental activist, producer and host of educational programming for TV and radio Background: Former Green Party activist Trustee since: 2001 Mona Field 57, Eagle Rock Retired political science professor, Glendale Community College Background: A strong supporter of faculty unions Trustee since: 1999 Miguel Santiago 37, Canoga Park Political consultant Background: Managed the successful 2009 congressional campaign of Rep. Judy Chu (D-Monterey Park)

The president and chief executive officer of Korean Air has been elected to the University of Southern California's board of trustees, it was announced Monday. Yang Ho Cho is a 1979 graduate of USC's Marshall School of Business and a member of the graduate program's CEO advisory board. He is also a vice president of the airline's parent, Hanjin Group.

Edward James Olmos, who played a demanding calculus teacher in the film "Stand and Deliver," is now in a position to make a real-life contribution to education. Olmos is the newest member of the Whittier College board of trustees. He was elected at last month's board meeting. "We are honored to welcome Mr. Olmos to our board, a gentleman who has earned international prominence through his artistic work in television, films and on stage," said Rayburn S. Dezember, the board's chairman.

The Autry National Center of the American West took a step this week that underscores its oft-stated mission to tell the whole story of the West: Marshall McKay, chairman of the Yocha Dehe Wintun Nation in Northern California will chair its board of trustees for the next two years, the first Native American to hold the top board post in the museum's 22-year history. "It's a double honor to have this bestowed on me," said McKay. "To come into this position is outstanding for a Native American.

The Los Angeles Community College District's Board of Trustees has named a state education official from Virginia to head its nine campuses. Daniel LaVista, the new chancellor, is executive director of Virginia's Council of Higher Education, which coordinates education efforts for the state's public colleges and universities, a district spokesman said in a statement. LaVista, 66, will replace Interim Chancellor Tyree Wieder on Aug. 1 at an annual salary of $370,000. LaVista said his focus will be on students, particularly those who, for reasons of background or poor schooling, are underprepared to succeed in college.