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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 ...
Penn College Wildcats: Pennsylvania College of Technology: Williamsport: United East: Penn State Abington Nittany Lions: Penn State Abington: Abington: United East: Penn State Altoona Nittany Lions: Penn State Altoona: Altoona: Allegheny Mountain: Penn State Behrend Lions: Penn State Erie, The Behrend College: Erie: Allegheny Mountain: Penn ...
The Pennsylvania State League was an American minor league baseball sports league that operated from 1892 to 1895, then became the first Atlantic League. The league member teams were exclusively based in Pennsylvania .
Founded Affiliation Enrollment Nickname Division Penn State–Beaver: Monaca: 1965 PSUCC: 870 Nittany Lions: West Penn State–DuBois: DuBois: 1935 795 Nittany Lions: West Penn State–Fayette [b] Uniontown: 1934 957 Roaring Lions: West Penn State–Greater Allegheny [c] McKeesport: 1948 701 Lions: West Penn State–Hazleton: Hazleton: 1934 ...
Churches and state conventions were deemed crucial to its growth. [2] In 2012, the network had more than 69,500 students actively involved in campus ministry through this organization and its affiliated state-level Baptist conventions, in 839 college and university campuses; [3] 782 of these are in the United States and 57 are in Canada.
The International Ministries was founded in 1814 as the Baptist Board for Foreign Missions by the Triennial Convention (now American Baptist Churches USA). [19] The first mission of the organization took place in Burma with the missionaries Adoniram Judson and Ann Hasseltine Judson in 1814. [ 20 ]
Baptists were active after emancipation in promoting the education of former slaves; for example, Jamaica's Calabar High School, named after the port of Calabar in Nigeria, was founded by Baptist missionaries.
Baptists, being a minority in Connecticut, were still required to pay fees to support the Congregationalist majority. The Baptists found this intolerable. The Baptists, well aware of Jefferson's own unorthodox beliefs, sought him as an ally in making all religious expression a fundamental human right and not a matter of government largesse.