COLUMBIA, SC (WIS) -
USC President Harris Pastides will join nine other university and non-profit officials in overseeing a $60 million endowment set up in the wake of the Penn State sex abuse scandal.
That $60 million is the fine Penn State was ordered to pay by the NCAA shortly after former Nittany Lions defensive coordinator Jerry Sandusky was convicted of child sex abuse on the university's campus.
According to the NCAA, the endowment was set up using guidelines established by the Child Sexual Abuse Endowment Task Force and money from the endowment will go toward programs to help prevent child sexual abuse or assist abuse victims nationwide.
Pastides and the task force will figure out how to use the funds, what type of programs are eligible, and how the entire fund will be managed.
Other members of the task force include, Nan Crouter, dean of Penn State's college of health and human development; Rita Hartung Cheng, Southern Illinois University chancellor; Craig Hillemeier, vice dean of Penn State's clinical affairs department at the College of Medicine; Brian Gallagher, president of the United Way; Jane Lowe, a team director at the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation; Bryan Samuels, commissioner of the Administration on Children,
Youth, and Families at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services; Pamela Shifman, director of the Initiatives for Girls and Women at the NoVo
Foundation; Raymond Torres, vice president of the Annie E. Casey Foundation
and executive director of Casey Family Services; and Tim White, a chancellor at the University of California.
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