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Spring Garden College (1851–1992) – baccalaureate university in Philadelphia. United Wesleyan College (1921–1990) – Bible college affiliated with the Wesleyan Church, located in Allentown. Villa Marie College (1925–1989) – baccalaureate Roman Catholic university in Erie; merged with Gannon University.
In October 2016, the Association of Pennsylvania State College and University Faculties went on strike for the first time when negotiations between union and state representatives fell through. Thousands of university faculty members in Pennsylvania participated in the strike, [ 1 ] which lasted Oct. 19–21.
This is a list of college athletics programs in the U.S. state of Pennsylvania. Notes: Athletic team description (short school name and nickname), with a link to the school's athletic program article if it exists. When only one nickname is listed, it is used for teams of both sexes. (Note that in recent years, many schools have chosen to use ...
The normal schools evolved from state normal schools, to state teacher's colleges, to state colleges. Act 188, which was signed into law on November 12, 1982, and came into effect on July 1, 1983, established the Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education, and converted those state colleges into universities.
The Pennsylvania State University, commonly referred to as Penn State and sometimes by the acronym PSU, is a public state-related land-grant research university with campuses and facilities throughout Pennsylvania, United States. Founded in 1855 as Farmers' High School of Pennsylvania, [ 13 ] Penn State was named the state's first land-grant ...
The Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference (PSAC) is a college athletic conference affiliated with the National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA) at the Division II level. The conference was originally formed in 1951 as the State Teachers Conference, and was temporarily named the Pennsylvania State Teachers College Conference in 1956 ...
The Penn State College of Agricultural Sciences offers 17 undergraduate majors, [1] 23 minors, [2] and graduate programs in 18 major areas. [3] The college awarded the nation's first baccalaureate degrees in agriculture in 1861. With 9 academic departments and 67 cooperative extension offices, one in each of Pennsylvania's counties, the college ...
Graham Harman, philosopher and academic. James T. Harris III, president of Widener University. Susanne Hambrusch, computer scientist and professor. Marci Hamilton, professor at the University of Pennsylvania. John W. Heston, president of Washington State University, South Dakota State University and Dakota State University.