(CNN) -- Head football coach Joe Paterno and the university president have lost their jobs, effective immediately, over a child sex abuse scandal at Penn State, university trustees announced Wednesday night. John P. Surma, vice chairman of trustees, said that President Graham Spanier was being replaced and Paterno, the longtime head football coach, would not finish the remainder of the season. Tom Bradley will be Penn State head coach in Joe Paterno's absence. Rod Erickson, executive vice president and provost of the school, will be interim president, school officials said. Spanier has been president of the school since 1995. Earlier, Paterno, 84, issued a statement saying he was "absolutely devastated by the developments" involving a former assistant football coach and two university officials and that he would end his 46-year tenure as head football coach at the end of the season. The trustees decided to move that timetable up.
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Trustees dismiss Spanier, remove Paterno as head coach immediately
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Man tells Anderson Cooper of uncomfortable moments with Sandusky
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U.S. Department of Education investigating Penn State
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"With the benefit of hindsight, I wish I had done more," Paterno says
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