Penn State Gets Proactive, Hiring Boland as Athletics Integrity Officer, Sports Ethics Experts Weigh In

Robert Boland, the director of the master of sports administration and dual degree MBA/MSA program at Ohio University, has been named Penn State’s athletics integrity officer, following a national search.   Boland, who brings more than 20 years of experience as an attorney in addition to serving as a faculty member, will replace Julie Del Giorno, who has served as the University’s first athletics integrity officer since 2013. Del Giorno will be fulfilling a broader compliance role for P