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Edinboro University's Harold C. Shields named to PASSHE's Board of Governors

09/08/2009

Edinboro University's Harold C. Shields named to PASSHE's Board of Governors

HARRISBURG, Pa. - Harold Shields, a well-known Erie figure and currently chair of the Edinboro University Council of Trustees, has been named to the Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education's Board of Governors.

Pennsylvania Governor Ed Rendell's appointment of Shields has been confirmed by the Pennsylvania Senate. The 20-member Board of Governors has overall responsibility for planning and coordinating the development and operation of PASSHE, which comprises Pennsylvania's 14 public universities, including Edinboro.  The Board establishes broad fiscal, personnel and educational policies under which the PASSHE universities operate.

With the appointment, Shields becomes the first Edinboro trustee to serve on the statewide Board of Governors since R. Benjamin Wiley died in 2004.

The recently retired Human Resources Director of both Global Business Services and Pittsburgh Resource Units for Alcoa in Pittsburgh, Shields is currently the principal in Harold C. Shields HR Consulting LLC.

Shields earned his bachelor's and master's degrees from Edinboro.  Before moving back to Pittsburgh and joining Alcoa, Shields had worked for Bucyrus-Erie in Glassport and Erie and had been an educator in the Erie School District. He also worked for Erie's Opportunities Industrialization Center, was an assistant to Erie's longtime mayor, Louis J. Tullio, and later became the first African-American elected to the Erie School board and to anchor the local news on WICU-TV, Erie's NBC affiliate.

Now in his second term as chair of Edinboro's Trustee Council, Shields is a member of Edinboro University Foundation board, and a past member of the Edinboro University Alumni Association Board.

Previously, Shields served as a board member of Leadership Pittsburgh and Board President of Three Rivers Youth, as well as executive board member and treasurer of the National Association of Minority Engineering Advocates Program Administrators Network.

Long active with non-profits in the Pittsburgh area, he is married to the former Stephanie Sallows of Ohio Township, whom he met at Edinboro while both were students.

Shields was a resident of  Creighton, Pa., and is a 1961 graduate of East Deer-Frazer High School (now part of the Deer Lakes School District).