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48-471: Urban is the son of a psychologist and Pennsylvania State University professor and was brought up in a devout Episcopal family, received his PhD in history of religions from the University of Chicago and is married to Ohio State University lecturer Nancy Jesser. They have one child. Urban's academic focus began with the religions of India and expanded to his studies of new religious movements in both

96-496: A Bachelor of Science in nursing, and post-baccalaureate certificates in geographic information systems and applied behavior analysis. Penn State is a state-related university and a member of Pennsylvania's Commonwealth System of Higher Education . While it receives funding from the Commonwealth and is connected to the state through its board of trustees, however, it is otherwise independent and not subject to any direct control by

144-649: A U.S. Congressman from Bellefonte , donated 200 acres (0.8 km ) of land in Centre County to the newly-established Farmers High School of Pennsylvania , representing the first of 10,101 acres (41 km ) the school eventually acquired. The same year, on February 22, the Pennsylvania General Assembly designated the school a degree-granting institution. Initially sponsored by the Pennsylvania State Agricultural Society,

192-480: A location other than University Park. Each of the 19 commonwealth campuses offer a unique set of degree programs based on the student demographics. Any student in good academic standing is guaranteed a spot at University Park to finish his or her degree if required or desired, known as "change of campus" or, more accurately, "the 2+2 program"; where a Penn State student may start at any Penn State campus, including University Park, for two years and finish at any Penn State

240-640: A long history of student governance. Elected student leaders remain directly involved in the decision-making of the university administration, as provided for in the board of trustees' standing orders. There are four student governments recognized by the university administration: the University Park Undergraduate Association (UPUA), the Graduate and Professional Student Association (GPSA), the Council of Commonwealth Student Governments (CCSG), and

288-519: A misdemeanor count of recklessly endangering another person. The largest of the university's 24 campuses, Penn State University Park is located in State College and College Township in Centre County , in central Pennsylvania . Its dedicated ZIP Code is 16802. With an undergraduate acceptance rate of 49 percent, it is the most selective campus in the Penn State system. The university ranks among

336-503: A pledge of the Beta Theta Pi fraternity located off-campus in State College , died while undergoing hazing activities at the fraternity. Eighteen members of Penn State's Beta Theta Pi fraternity were initially charged in connection with Piazza's death, and the fraternity was closed and banned indefinitely. In July 2024, the fraternity President and Vice President & Pledge Master each pleaded guilty to 14 misdemeanor counts of hazing and

384-554: A report by former U.S. Senator and athletics integrity monitor George J. Mitchell citing progress by Penn State in implementing reforms, the NCAA repealed the sanctions. On January 16, 2015, all previous Penn State football records were restored. An investigation led by former U.S. Attorney General Richard Thornburgh , who the Paterno family retained to review the Freeh report, concluded that

432-453: A school of international affairs, with the first classes admitted in the fall 2008 semester. The school is part of Penn State Law. Formerly the school of nursing, on September 25, 2013, the board of trustees granted the nursing program college status. The 32-member board of trustees governs the university. Its members include the university's president, the Governor of the Commonwealth , and

480-479: A single Olympic Games. Totals are through the 2020 Tokyo Olympic Games. an athlete is considered to have appeared once in each sport entered each time the Games of an Olympiad or Winter Games were held, including athletes who were alternates number of times that a person received an Olympic medal or honor for finishing among the top three in an event both on the 2020 gold medal-winning USA women's team both on

528-430: A yield rate of 14%. The university started test-optional admissions with the fall 2021 incoming class. Of the 33% of incoming students in 2023 who submitted SAT scores, the interquartile range was 1230–1390; of the 6% of incoming students in 2023 who submitted ACT scores, the interquartile range was 27–32. Of all matriculating students, the average high school GPA was 3.67. Penn State's freshman retention rate

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576-684: Is 92%, with 85% going on to graduate within six years. Pennsylvania State University Park is a college-sponsor of the National Merit Scholarship Program and sponsored five Merit Scholarship awards in 2020. In the 2020–2021 academic year, 16 incoming freshman students were National Merit Scholars . Penn State is accredited by the Middle States Commission on Higher Education . The Smeal College of Business , The Sam and Irene Black School of Business , Penn State Harrisburg , and Penn State Great Valley are accredited by

624-506: Is a list of former or current Penn State University students (129) and coaches and faculty members (12) who have appeared as athletes at the Olympic Games , plus one athlete for the boycotted 1980 Summer Olympics . The university had its most representatives participating in the 2024 Summer Olympics in Paris with 36 participants earning fourteen medals, the most ever by Penn State athletes in

672-700: Is a member of the Association of American Universities (AAU). The university has two law schools : Penn State Law on the school's University Park campus and Penn State Dickinson Law in Carlisle . The College of Medicine is in Hershey . The university maintains 19 commonwealth campuses and five special mission campuses located across Pennsylvania. The university competes in the Big Ten Conference in Division I of

720-408: Is delegated by the president to other administrative departments, the faculty, and the student body. Neeli Bendapudi became the university's 19th and current president on May 9, 2022, upon the departure of Eric J. Barron . The executive vice president and provost is the chief academic officer of the university. The current provost, Nicholas P. Jones, assumed office on July 1, 2013. Penn State has

768-634: Is due south of Interstate 80 . Before the arrival of the Interstates, University Park was a short distance from the Lock Haven – Altoona branch line of the Pennsylvania Railroad . The last run of long-distance trains from Buffalo or Harrisburg through Lock Haven was in 1971. Today, the nearest Amtrak passenger rail access is in Tyrone , 25 miles to the southwest. Intercity bus service to University Park

816-473: Is provided by Fullington Trailways , Greyhound Lines , Megabus , and OurBus . The State College Regional Airport , serving two regional airlines adn t, is near University Park. In addition to the University Park campus, 19 campus locations throughout the commonwealth of Pennsylvania offer enrollment for undergraduate students. Over 60 percent of Penn State first-year students begin their education at

864-510: The Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB). The university offers an accelerated Premedical - Medical Program in cooperation with Sidney Kimmel Medical College . Students in the program spend two or three years at the university before attending medical school at Jefferson. The Academic Ranking of World Universities ranked Penn State between 101 and 150th among universities globally and between 42nd and 56th nationally for 2020. U.S. News & World Report ranked

912-539: The Equal Protection Clause of the Fourteenth Amendment did not require the undergraduate students be allowed to participate in the selection of trustees. As of 2013 , the chair of the board of trustees is Keith E. Masser, a graduate of Penn State and the chairman and chief executive officer of Sterman Masser, Inc. The board's main responsibilities are to select the president of Penn State, determine

960-529: The NCAA for most of its athletic teams, known collectively as the Penn State Nittany Lions . Since its founding, Penn State has won 82 national collegiate team championships, including 54 NCAA titles across all sports, and Penn State students, alumni, faculty, and coaches have won a total of 74 Olympic medals , including 20 gold medals. Pennsylvania State University was founded in 1855 when James Irvin ,

1008-1005: The 2012 silver medal-winning USA women's team all on the 2016 bronze medal-winning USA men's and women's teams all on the 1984 bronze medal-winning USA women's team [REDACTED] St. Louis [REDACTED] London [REDACTED] Antwerp [REDACTED] Paris [REDACTED] Amsterdam [REDACTED] Los Angeles [REDACTED] London [REDACTED] Helsinki 1952 Winter Olympic Games [REDACTED] Oslo [REDACTED] Melbourne 1956 Winter Olympic Games [REDACTED] Cortina d'Ampezzo [REDACTED] Rome [REDACTED] Tokyo [REDACTED] Mexico City [REDACTED] Munich [REDACTED] Montreal [REDACTED] Moscow Jana Angelakis , Greg Fredericks , Charlene Morett , Christine Larson-Mason , Knut Hjeltnes (Norway) and Romel Raffin (Canada) were all named to their respective Olympic teams but did not participate due to

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1056-528: The Church of Scientology in Cold War America". By 2011, Urban had expanded his research into the practices of the Church of Scientology, incorporating his information into a new book titled The Church of Scientology: A History of a New Religion (published by Princeton University Press ) which received praise: Urban also observed that Hubbard formed many of his theories from those previously written about by

1104-657: The United States and Europe, about which he has written many academic books and articles. He has said that the knowledge and power used by religions to keep information hidden from others had always fascinated him. In 2006, Urban wrote an article for the Journal of the American Academy of Religion (published by Oxford University Press on behalf of the American Academy of Religion ) titled "Fair Game: Secrecy, Security, and

1152-508: The World Campus Student Government Association (WCSGA). The University Park Undergraduate Association (UPUA) is the representative student government of the undergraduate students at Penn State's University Park campus, which was established in 2006 after the former student government, Undergraduate Student Government (USG), lost its recognition by way of a student referendum. Graduate and professional students at

1200-541: The early to mid 20th century astral projection pioneer Sylvan Muldoon in his (Muldoon's) 1951 book The Phenomena of Astral Projection co-written with Hereward Carrington . Pennsylvania State University The Pennsylvania State University (commonly referred to as Penn State and sometimes by the acronym PSU ) is a public state-related land-grant research university with campuses and facilities throughout Pennsylvania , United States. Founded in 1855 as Farmers' High School of Pennsylvania , Penn State

1248-445: The final two years. In 1998, the university launched Penn State World Campus , or Penn State Online, which offers more than 60 online education programs, degrees, and certificates. Distance education has a long history at Penn State, one of the first universities in the country to offer a correspondence course for remote farmers in 1892. Examples of online programs include an MBA , a master of professional studies in homeland security,

1296-465: The goals and strategic direction of the university, and approve the annual budget. Regular meetings of the board are held bi-monthly and take place primarily on the University Park campus, although on occasion meetings are held at other locations within the Commonwealth. The university president is selected by the board and is given the authority for actual control of the university, including day-to-day management. In practice, part of this responsibility

1344-557: The incidents. Freeh released his findings in July 2012, concluding that Paterno, Spanier, Curley, and Schultz "conceal[ed] Sandusky's activities from the board of trustees, the university community and authorities" and "failed to protect against a child sexual predator harming children for over a decade". On July 23, 2012, the National Collegiate Athletic Association levied sanctions against Penn State for its role in

1392-425: The jurisdiction to pass down the original sanctions. Subsequent emails, brought forward under subpoena, quoted an NCAA vice president, who wrote, "I characterized our approach to PSU as a bluff when talking to Mark [Emmert, NCAA president]...He basically agreed [because] I think he understands that if we made this an enforcement issue, we may win the immediate battle but lose the war." On September 8, 2014, following

1440-704: The limited growth in state appropriations to Penn State, the university has concentrated its efforts on philanthropy (2003 marked the end of the Grand Destiny campaign—a seven-year effort that raised over $ 1.3 billion). In 2011, the university and its football program garnered international media attention and criticism in a sex abuse scandal in which university officials were alleged to have covered up incidents of child sexual abuse by former football team defensive coordinator Jerry Sandusky . Athletic director Timothy Curley and Gary Schultz, senior vice president for finance and business, were indicted for perjury. In

1488-607: The lyrics in the Penn State Alma Mater were revised to be gender-neutral in honor of International Women's Year ; the revised lyrics were taken from the posthumously published autobiography of the writer of the original lyrics, Fred Lewis Pattee. Professor Patricia Farrell acted as a spokesperson for those who wanted the change. In 1989, the Pennsylvania College of Technology in Williamsport became affiliated with

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1536-476: The most selective schools in Pennsylvania , according to various publications. During the fall 2018 semester, 40,363 undergraduate students and 5,907 graduate students were enrolled at University Park. Of those, 46.5 percent were female and 42.4 percent were non-Pennsylvania residents. The University Park campus is centrally located at the junction of Interstate 99 / U.S. Route 220 and U.S. Route 322 , and

1584-529: The nation's ten largest engineering schools . A major road in State College was later named in Atherton's honor. Penn State's Atherton Hall, a well-furnished and centrally located residence hall, was named after George Atherton's wife, Frances Washburn Atherton. In the 20th century, Penn State grew significantly, becoming the largest grantor of baccalaureate degrees in Pennsylvania . In 1936, its enrollment reached 5,000. Around this time, Ralph D. Hetzel ,

1632-607: The report that placed so much blame on Penn State and Paterno was a "rush to injustice" that could not be relied upon. He found that not only did the evidence "fall far short" of showing Paterno attempted to conceal the Sandusky scandal, but rather that "the contrary is true". In November 2014, Pennsylvania State Senator Jake Corman released further emails that showed "regular and substantive" contact between NCAA officials and Freeh's investigators, suggesting that Freeh's conclusions were orchestrated. On February 2, 2017, Timothy Piazza,

1680-454: The scandal, penalizing the Penn State football program with a $ 60 million fine, a ban from bowl games and post-season play for four years, reducing its scholarships from 25 to 15 annually for four years, vacating of all Penn State football wins from 1998 to 2011, and placing the program on a five-year probationary period. Following imposition of the NCAA sanctions, emails surfaced indicating that high-level NCAA officials did not believe they had

1728-518: The school's name was changed to the Pennsylvania State College . By 1875, enrollment fell to 64 undergraduates, and the school attempted to balance its primary focus on agricultural studies with classic education . In 1882, George W. Atherton was named the school's president; Atherton set about broadening the curriculum beyond its agricultural focus. The school developed an engineering studies program that immediately became one of

1776-476: The school's president, established a commonwealth of colleges to provide an alternative for Depression -era students who were economically unable to leave home to attend college. In 1953, President Milton S. Eisenhower , the brother of then- U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower , sought and won permission to elevate the school to university status, and it assumed its current name, The Pennsylvania State University . Under Eisenhower's successor, Eric A. Walker ,

1824-478: The state Secretaries of Agriculture, Conservation and Natural Resources, and Education. The other members include six trustees appointed by the Governor, nine elected by alumni, and six elected by Pennsylvania agricultural societies. Six additional trustees are elected by a board representing business and industry enterprises. Undergraduate students do not elect any trustees; the court case Benner v. Oswald ruled that

1872-583: The state. For the 2006–2007 fiscal year, the university received 9.7 percent of its budget from state appropriations, the lowest of the four state-related institutions in Pennsylvania. Penn State has eighteen colleges, including three at special-mission campuses. The University Park campus is organized into fourteen distinct colleges, plus the graduate school and the division of undergraduate studies: The university's board of trustees voted in January 2007 to create

1920-618: The university acquired hundreds of acres of surrounding land, and enrollment nearly tripled. In 1967, the Penn State Milton S. Hershey Medical Center , a college of medicine and hospital, was established in Hershey with a $ 50 million gift from the Hershey Trust Company . In 1970s, the university became a state-related institution, leading to its membership in the Commonwealth System of Higher Education . In 1975,

1968-439: The university are represented by the Graduate and Professional Student Association (GPSA), the oldest continuously existing student governance organization at Penn State. The 19 commonwealth campuses of the university are governed by the Council of Commonwealth Student Governments (CCSG), formerly known as the Council of Branch Campus Student Governments (CBCSG). In 2019, the World Campus Student Government Association (WCSGA)

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2016-473: The university as 52nd-best university in the world and 18th in the U.S. Penn State is classified among "R1: Doctoral Universities – Very high research activity". Over 10,000 students are enrolled in the university's graduate school (including the law and medical schools), and over 70,000 degrees have been awarded since the school was founded in 1922. List of Pennsylvania State University Olympians The list of Pennsylvania State University Olympians

2064-482: The university tied for 63rd among national universities and tied for 23rd among public schools in the United States for 2021. In 2022, the university was ranked 96th in the QS World University Rankings . The 2021 "World University Rankings" by Times Higher Education ranked the university as the 114th best university in the world. The 2021 Global University Ranking by CWTS Leiden Ranking ranked

2112-419: The university. In 2000, Dickinson School of Law joined the Pennsylvania College of Technology in affiliating with the university. The university is now the largest in Pennsylvania, and in 2003, it was credited with having the second-largest impact on the state economy of any organization, generating an economic effect of over $ 17 billion on a budget of $ 2.5 billion. To offset the lack of funding due to

2160-586: The use of "college" or "university" was avoided in the school's naming since local Pennsylvanians perceived that such institutions were impractical in their curricula. In 1862, the school's name was changed to the Agricultural College of Pennsylvania . The following year, in 1863, the Morrill Land-Grant Acts was passed by the U.S. Congress , and Pennsylvania selected the school to be the state's sole land-grant college. Two years later, in 1874,

2208-470: The wake of the scandal, Coach Joe Paterno was fired and school president Graham B. Spanier was forced to resign by the board of trustees . Sandusky, who maintained his innocence, was indicted and subsequently convicted in June 2012 on 45 counts for the abuse. A subcommittee of the board of trustees engaged former FBI director Louis Freeh to head an independent investigation on the university's handling of

2256-695: Was formed to advocate for the interests and concerns of the more than 20,000 Penn State World Campus students. Admission to Penn State University Park is classified as "selective" by the Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education . The Princeton Review gives Penn State University Park an "Admissions Selectivity Rating" of 90 out of 99. In 2023, the university received 85,957 applications. It extended offers of admission to 46,605 applicants, or 54%, after holistic review that includes examination of academic rigor, performance and admissions test scores. 9,040 accepted students chose to enroll,

2304-418: Was named the state's first land-grant university eight years later, in 1863. Its primary campus, known as Penn State University Park , is located in State College and College Township . In addition to its land-grant designation, the university is a sea-grant , space-grant , and one of only six sun-grant universities. It is classified among "R1: Doctoral Universities – Very high research activity" and

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