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Commonwealth University of Pennsylvania is a public university in Pennsylvania, United States. It has three campuses in the Pennsylvania boroughs of Bloomsburg, Lock Haven, and Mansfield. The university was created in 2022 by the merger of Bloomsburg University, Lock Haven University, and Mansfield University.
In 1916, the state of Pennsylvania took control and named it Bloomsburg State Normal School. The name was changed to Bloomsburg State Teachers College in 1927. In 1960, the name was changed to Bloomsburg State College. The name was changed to the current Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania on July 1, 1983. [5]
Mansfield University of Pennsylvania is a campus of Commonwealth University of Pennsylvania and it is located in Mansfield, Pennsylvania. Part of the Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education (PASSHE), the campus's total enrollment is 1,637 students.
The U.S. state of Pennsylvania has 21 official emblems, as designated by the Pennsylvania General Assembly and signed into law by the Governor of Pennsylvania. State symbols [ edit ]
The University of Pennsylvania (commonly known as Penn [note 3] or UPenn [note 4]) is a private Ivy League research university in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States.It is one of nine colonial colleges and was chartered prior to the U.S. Declaration of Independence when Benjamin Franklin, the university's founder and first president, advocated for an educational institution that trained ...
The coat of arms of the University of Pennsylvania is the assumed heraldic achievement of the University of Pennsylvania. The achievement in its current iteration was approved in 1932 and adopted in 1933. [ 1 ]
PASSHE should not be confused with Pennsylvania's other state-funded university system, the Commonwealth System of Higher Education, which includes one land grant university (Pennsylvania State University), three historically private universities (Temple University, Lincoln University, and University of Pittsburgh), and the related campuses of ...
Afterward, it was decided to use these colors by the university. Penn's and Franklin's Coats of Arms. When the university was creating a seal and coat of arms it decided to use elements from both Benjamin Franklin's and William Penn's coats-of-arms—Franklin had helped to found the university, and Penn had founded the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania.