Two Penn State administrators facing new charges they hushed up child sexual abuse allegations against former assistant football coach Jerry Sandusky were preparing to be arraigned on Friday, although the university's former president was not due in court until next week.

Athletic director Tim Curley and vice president Gary Schultz were to appear in court one day after they and former president Graham Spanier were accused in a withering 39-page grand jury report of conspiring to conceal complaints about Sandusky, giving him time and access to molest more boys before his arrest nearly a year ago.

"This plan of action undertaken by these three administrators, who formed the very apex of decision-making and power at Penn State, was created out of a desire to shield Sandusky from the criminal process and, perhaps most importantly, to spare the university tremendous negative publicity and embarrassment," the jurors wrote.

The arraignment of Curley and Schultz at a district court in suburban Harrisburg was expected to be a short proceeding. Spanier's first appearance was scheduled for Wednesday.

Prosecutors alleged the men's "conspiracy of silence" extended all the way to the top at Penn State, and included decisions not to alert police or child welfare authorities after getting a 2001 report of Sandusky sexually abusing a boy in a team shower.