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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.
Special Focus Four-Year: Arts, Music & Design Schools 2,355 1876 Curtis Institute of Music: Philadelphia: Philadelphia: private secular Special Focus Four-Year: Arts, Music & Design Schools 167 1924 Pennsylvania College of Health Sciences: East Lampeter township: Lancaster: private secular Special Focus Four-Year: Other Health Professions ...
The designation establishes the schools as an "instrumentality of the commonwealth" [1] and provides each university with annual, non-preferred [2] financial appropriations in exchange offering tuition discounts to students who are residents of Pennsylvania and a minority state-representation on each school's board of trustees.
(The Center Square) ― Gov. Josh Shapiro wants to reshape Pennsylvania higher education, announcing a plan Friday to unite PASSHE universities and community colleges in a new governance system ...
With 17,275 undergraduate and graduate students as of 2022, WCU is the largest of the 10 state-owned universities belonging to the Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education (PASSHE) and the sixth largest university in Pennsylvania.
In 2021, the PASSHE Board of Governors voted to consolidate six PASSHE schools into two regional campuses as a way to address declining enrollment and increasing tuition. The two new regional campuses were Pennsylvania Western University and Commonwealth University of Pennsylvania. Bloomsburg University, Lock Haven University, and Mansfield ...
Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education (PaSSHE) The 14 universities in PaSSHE are state-owned. They are directly governed by gubernatorial appointees sitting on the PaSSHE Board of Governors. Each university also has an independent Council of Trustees appointed by the Commonwealth's governor. State-owned universities:
Millersville University of Pennsylvania (commonly known as Millersville University, The Ville, or MU) is a public university in Millersville, Pennsylvania. It is one of the ten schools that comprise the Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education (PASSHE). Founded in 1855 as the first Normal School in Pennsylvania, Millersville is accredited ...