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Nearly 90 percent are Pennsylvania residents and 80 percent remain in Pennsylvania after graduation. Nearly 20 percent of the total student population are underrepresented minority. There are more than 800,000 State System alumni, including more than 518,000 who live and work in Pennsylvania.
The Commonwealth System of Higher Education is a statutory designation by the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania that confers "state-related" status on four universities in Pennsylvania: Lincoln University, the Pennsylvania State University, Temple University, and the University of Pittsburgh.
Pennsylvania State University Commonwealth campuses: Medical School 809 1967 Penn State Dickinson Law: Carlisle borough: Cumberland: Pennsylvania State University Commonwealth campuses: Law School 638 1834 Penn State DuBois: DuBois city: Clearfield: Pennsylvania State University Commonwealth campuses: Baccalaureate University 919 1935
Founded in 1980 as the University Scholars Program, it was expanded and renamed in 1997 in response to a $30 million gift by William and Joan Schreyer. Schreyer was one of three honors colleges, along with those at Arizona State and Mississippi , to be listed by Reader's Digest in its "America's 100 Best" list published in May, 2005. [ 1 ]
Pennsylvania State University was founded in 1855 when James Irvin, a U.S. Congressman from Bellefonte, donated 200 acres (0.8 km 2) of land in Centre County [17] to the newly-established Farmers High School of Pennsylvania, representing the first of 10,101 acres (41 km 2) the school eventually acquired.
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Samuel H. Smith, member and Speaker of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives (R-PA 66) [46] Donald Snyder, member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives, 1981–2000; Majority Whip [47] Stanley Sporkin, former judge of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia [48]