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PennWest Edinboro is a campus of Pennsylvania Western University, a multi-campus
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in
Pennsylvania Pennsylvania (; (Pennsylvania Dutch: )), officially the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, is a state spanning the Mid-Atlantic, Northeastern, Appalachian, and Great Lakes regions of the United States. It borders Delaware to its southeast, ...
. Located in the town of Edinboro, the campus has more than 4,600 enrolled students.


History

Edinboro University was founded as the Edinboro Academy, a private training school for Pennsylvania teachers in 1857, by the region's original Scottish settlers. It is the oldest training institution west of the
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and the second oldest in all of Pennsylvania. In the beginning, Edinboro modestly consisted of one two-story building, six classrooms, three instructors, 110 students and a principal. That original building Academy Hall is currently used as the undergraduate admissions office. In 1861, the Edinboro Academy affiliated with the state government of Pennsylvania to become the second State Normal School in Pennsylvania, occasionally known as the Northwest State Normal School. In 1914, the state purchased the school from the original stockholders and renamed it the Edinboro State Normal School. By 1927, the advancement of academic programs to include liberal arts study required the school to rename itself Edinboro State Teachers College. Further development of the liberal arts to include degree programs outside the field of education resulted in Edinboro becoming Edinboro State College in 1960. Continued development of undergraduate
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programs and advanced graduate degrees earned Edinboro university status in 1983. In July 2021, the university was officially merged with fellow Western Pennsylvania institutions Clarion University of Pennsylvania and
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. On October 14, 2021, the state officially adopted the new name of the combined universities: Pennsylvania Western University.


Campus

The campus is located from
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and within of the educational and population centers of McKean,
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, and
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. The main campus has 42 buildings on a campus which includes a lake, open fields and woods, 11 on-campus residence halls (Highlands 1~8, Rose Hall and Earp Hall (used for summer sports camps) and Towers (only one being used currently)) for approximately 2,500 students, and the seven-story Baron-Forness Library. Edinboro University offers 150 degree programs and 57 minors. The student-faculty ratio is 18:1. In 2007 the university announced a plan to build dormitories for $115 million. The Highland Complex had eight halls, with the first four beginning operations in 2008 and 2009 and the remainder doing so in 2010 and 2011. They opened at a time when enrollment peaked. By 2022 enrollment had sharply declined and Edinboro University was merging with other universities. That year the university announced that Buildings 7 and 8 of the Highland Complex were to be sold; at the time the two buildings had no students.


Athletics

Edinboro University offers 17 varsity sports: women's basketball, cross country, lacrosse, volleyball, swimming, soccer, softball, tennis, and indoor and outdoor track and field, and men's football, wrestling, cross country, basketball, swimming, tennis, wheelchair basketball and outdoor track and field. All but the
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and wheelchair basketball are
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programs and members of the
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. Wrestling competes on the
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level, and as of the 2019 season will no longer actively compete against Division II level PSAC wrestling programs as a result of their new affiliation with the
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in wrestling. Its wheelchair basketball team competes in the NWBA Intercollegiate Division.


Notable alumni

* Jack R. Anderson, former director of the University of Pittsburgh bands *
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men's soccer team, 1954-1983 *
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, member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives, 2013–present * Jim Booros, an American professional golfer who played full-time on the PGA Tour for nine years * Karl Boyes, former member of Pennsylvania House of Representatives, 1981-2003 * Samuel Myron Brainerd, U.S. Congressman from Pennsylvania, 1883-1885 * Shawn Bunch, All-American wrestler and MMA fighter * Adda Burch, teacher, missionary, temperance activist, reporter *
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, President of
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, 1991-2009 * Henry Alden Clark, U.S. Congressman from Pennsylvania, 1917-1919 * Mark Corey, professional baseball player * Kathy Dahlkemper, U.S. Congresswoman from Pennsylvania, 2009-2011 * Denayne Davidson-Dixon, former
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* Mari K. Eder, United States Army Major General (retired) * John Evans, former sportscaster at
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*
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, American film writer, and animator; director of Star Wars: The Clone Wars film and series * Teresa Forcier, member of Pennsylvania House of Representatives, 1991-2006 *
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, photographer, Guggenheim Fellow, MacArthur Fellow * Gregor Gillespie, NCAA Champion wrestler; professional
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football player * Trevor Harris, former NFL player for the
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* James T. Harris III, President of
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* Merritt Eldred Hoag, former president of
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* Richard Holmes, professional football player * Chris Honeycutt, All-American wrestler; professional
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*
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, early women's rights advocate * L. C. Hughes, newspaper editor, lawyer, union organizer, and politician who served as the eleventh Governor of Arizona Territory * Bill Jacobs, biologist who made genetic engineering of
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possible. * Kenneth Jadlowiec, member of Pennsylvania House of Representatives, 1987-2002 * Mike Kelly, football coach for numerous NCAA, CFL, and NFL teams * Miles Brown Kitts, Mayor of
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(1916-1924), Pennsylvania State Senator 1924-1932 *
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* Andrew Muldoon, retired professional
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* Rajee Narinesingh, transgender actress, activist, author, singer, and reality television personality * Sean O'Brien, former member of Ohio House of Representatives, 2011–2016, former member of Ohio Senate 2016-2020 * Jeremy O'Day, General Manager & Vice President of Football Operations,
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* Frank Polaski, former member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives, 1964-1970 * Dr. Sian Proctor, Inspiration4 Astronaut, first black female pilot on a spacecraft * Tara Seibel, cartoonist, graphic designer, and illustrator * R. Tracy Seyfert, Member of the Pennsylvania House of Representatives 1997-2000 * Milton William Shreve, U.S. Congressman from Pennsylvania, 1913–1915,1919–1933 * Keith Skelton, former member of Oregon House of Representatives, 1957–1973 * Danny Smith,
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' Special Teams Coordinator * David Steadman, curator of ornithology at the
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