Sentence examples for board of trustees fired from inspiring English sources

Last Wednesday, the university's board of trustees fired Paterno and Graham B. Spanier, the university's president.

When the university's Board of Trustees fired Paterno and Graham B. Spanier, the university president, on Wednesday night, prices plummeted.

The Penn State board of trustees fired Paterno last week amid the sexual abuse scandal tied to his former assistant coach Jerry Sandusky.

Soon after the three were arrested in November, the board of trustees fired Paterno, the school's most famous figure and a man who won two national college football championships in the 1980s.

But on Nov. 9, 2011, five days after the scandal broke, the board of trustees fired Paterno three games short of completing his 46th season as head coach.

On March 9, three days after the series concluded, the district's elected Board of Trustees fired the head of the construction program, Larry Eisenberg.

But the tone of the town halls underscored the challenge facing Erickson: uniting a large, disparate group of alumni upset over the board of trustees' firing of Paterno.

The Penn State Board of Trustees fired Mr. Paterno on Wednesday as the university struggles to grapple with allegations that a former assistant coach, Jerry Sandusky, abused eight boys over a 15-year period, and that the university, including Mr. Paterno, failed to act to halt further harm.

Then Surma announced to a room full of reporters and television cameras, and to the country watching at home, that Penn State's board of trustees had fired Joe Paterno.

Prominent former players have led the defense of their coach, whose career included 409 victories, the most in college football history, but ended with a phone call from the board of trustees who fired him amid the Sandusky scandal.

Hundreds of people have signed an online petition and joined Facebook pages calling on Penn State's board of trustees to fire Spanier.