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Edinboro University of Pennsylvania

Established 1857
Type Public
Endowment $11 million
President Dr. Frank G. Pogue, Jr.
Provost Dr. Pearl Bartelt
Faculty 404
Students 7,691
Undergraduates 6,443
Postgraduates 1,248
Location Edinboro, PA, USA
Campus 585 acres (2.37 km²)
Colors Red and White
Nickname Fighting Scots
Fight song Scotland the Brave
Website www.edinboro.edu

Edinboro University of Pennsylvania is a public liberal arts university located in Edinboro, Pennsylvania, USA and one of 14 schools associated with the Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education. Edinboro University is accredited by the Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools (MSACS). It has 7,691 enrolled students spread between the 585 acre (2.4 km²) main campus as well as the Porreco Center in Erie and a Meadville facility. Edinboro University of Pennsylvania Seal File links The following pages link to this file: Edinboro University of Pennsylvania ... The date of establishment or date of founding of an institution is the date on which that institution chooses to claim as its starting point. ... 1857 was a common year starting on Thursday (see link for calendar). ... This does not cite its references or sources. ... A financial endowment is a transfer of money or property donated to an institution, with the stipulation that it be invested, and the principal remain intact. ... University President is the title of the highest ranking officer within a university, within university systems that prefer that appellation over other variations such as Chancellor or rector. ... Provost is the title of a senior academic administrator at many institutions of higher education in the United States and Canada, the equivalent of Vice-Chancellor at certain UK universites such as UCL, and the head of certain Oxbridge colleges (e. ... A faculty is a division within a university. ... Alternate uses: Student (disambiguation) Etymologically derived through Middle English from the Latin second-type conjugation verb stŭdērĕ, which means to study, a student is one who studies. ... In some educational systems, undergraduate education is post-secondary education up to the level of a Bachelors degree. ... Degree ceremony at Cambridge. ... Edinboro is a borough in Erie County, Pennsylvania, United States. ... Official language(s) English, Pennsylvania Dutch Capital Harrisburg Largest city Philadelphia Area  Ranked 33rd  - Total 46,055 sq mi (119,283 km²)  - Width 280 miles (455 km)  - Length 160 miles (255 km)  - % water 2. ... School colors are the colors chosen by a school to represent it on uniforms and other items of identification. ... The athletic nickname, or equivalently athletic moniker, of a university or college within the United States of America is the name officially adopted by that institution for at least the members of its athletic teams. ... A fight song is primarily a sports term, referring to a song associated with a team. ... Scotland the Brave (Scottish Gaelic: Alba an Aigh) is, along with Flower of Scotland and Scots Wha Hae, an unofficial national anthem of Scotland. ... A website (or Web site) is a collection of web pages, images, videos and other digital assets and hosted on a particular domain or subdomain on the World Wide Web. ... Edinboro is a borough in Erie County, Pennsylvania, United States. ... Official language(s) English, Pennsylvania Dutch Capital Harrisburg Largest city Philadelphia Area  Ranked 33rd  - Total 46,055 sq mi (119,283 km²)  - Width 280 miles (455 km)  - Length 160 miles (255 km)  - % water 2. ... The Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education (PASSHE) is the largest provider of higher education in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. ... The Middle States Association of Colleges and Schools is a voluntary, peer based, non-profit association dedicated to the educational excellence and improvement through peer evaluation and accreditation. ... Nickname: The Gem City Location in Pennsylvania Location of Pennsylvania with the U.S.A. Coordinates: County Erie County Founded 1795 Government  - Mayor Joseph Sinnott Area  - City  28. ... Meadville is a city located in Crawford County, Pennsylvania, USA. As of the 2000 census, the city had a total population of 13,685. ...

The fountain on Mallory Lake and the Baron-Forness Library
The fountain on Mallory Lake and the Baron-Forness Library

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Campus Locations

The main campus is located only 18 miles from Erie, Pennsylvania and within 100 miles of the educational and major population centers of Buffalo, Cleveland, and Pittsburgh. The main campus boasts 42 buildings on a spacious 585-acre campus which includes a five-acre lake, open fields and woods, six on-campus residence halls for approximately 2,000 students, and the modern seven-story Baron-Forness Library with more than 490,000 bound volumes and 1.4 million microform units. Edinboro University of Pennsylvania offers 100 degree programs and 57 minors. More than one-half of the faculty members at Edinboro University have earned doctorates or the highest degree attainable in their field. Many of them have been recognized nationally and internationally for their outstanding research and scholarly accomplishments. In addition, a number of faculty members have held state and national leadership roles in their professional organizations. The student-faculty ratio is 18:1. Nickname: The Gem City Location in Pennsylvania Location of Pennsylvania with the U.S.A. Coordinates: County Erie County Founded 1795 Government  - Mayor Joseph Sinnott Area  - City  28. ... Nickname: Location of Buffalo in New York State County Erie County Government  - Mayor Byron Brown Area  - City 52. ... Wikipedia does not yet have an article with this exact name. ... City nickname: The Steel City Location in the state of Pennsylvania Founded 1758 Mayor Tom Murphy (Dem) Area  - Total  - Water 151. ...


Edinboro students may also choose to attend classes in two regional learning centers, The Porreco Center in Erie and at the Bessemer Complex in Meadville. The Porreco Center sits on the former Louis Porreco estate in Millcreek Township, PA and allows students to complete undergraduate coursework toward the completion of an Associate's Degree without leaving the Erie area. The Porreco Center consists of 10 buildings and a beautiful lake. Edinboro University in Meadville allows students to complete university coursework while also partnering with building neighbor the Precision Manufacturing Institute. // Places Erie is the name of several places in the United States of America: Towns Erie, Colorado Erie, Illinois Erie, Kansas Erie, Pennsylvania Townships Erie Township, Michigan, in Monroe County Erie Township, Ohio, in Ottawa County Counties Erie County, New York Erie County, Ohio Erie County, Pennsylvania Bodies of Water... Meadville is the name of some places in the United States of America: Meadville, Missouri Meadville, Mississippi Meadville, Pennsylvania This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ... Millcreek Township is the name of a few places in the United States: Millcreek Township, Clarion County, Pennsylvania Millcreek Township, Erie County, Pennsylvania Millcreek Township, Lebanon County, Pennsylvania Millcreek Township, Utah It is also the name of a former township in Hamilton County, Ohio: Millcreek Township, Hamilton County, Ohio Millcreek...

Reeder Hall
Reeder Hall

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Notable Programs

Students with exceptionally high academic aptitude scores and excellent high school records are eligible to participate in the University’s Honors Program. One of the leading programs in the nation, the Edinboro Honors Program has been used as a model by many colleges and universities. (SIGNIFICANT CITATION OF THIS CLAIM NEEDS TO BE PROVIDED.)


Edinboro University has the largest liberal arts undergraduate degree program in Art in the Northeast. It is continually recognized for providing conservatory quality at an affordable cost. The Art Department has more than 1,000 students in four undergraduate programs (Art History, Applied Media Arts, Fine Arts/Crafts, and Art Education) as well as two graduate programs (Master of Arts and Master of Fine Arts). The department encompasses four buildings, and houses two on-campus galleries, the Bates and Bruce Galleries. The undergraduate program allows for specialization in art education, art history, cinema (Animation and Film), graphic design, photography, ceramics, drawing, jewelry/metalsmithing, painting, print making, sculpture, textile design, weaving/fibers, and wood/furniture design. The Department of Political Science and Criminal Justice offers one of the largest Criminal Justice programs in the nation. While the Criminal Justice program is considered underfunded and understaffed, the Criminal Justice faculty maintain an exceptionally strong reputation through the leadership of Dr. David Ferster, Department Chairman. For example, two Criminal Justice faculty have won researcher of the year award and advisor of the year award for the 2006-2007 academic year, an unprecedented achievement for a single Department at Edinboro University of Pennsylvania.


The Office for Students with Disabilities provides nationally-recognized support services dedicated to enhancing the University’s commitment to equal opportunity for all students with disabilities. The campus maintains the largest community of resident students with severe disabilities attending higher education in the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania as well as one of the largest in the United States. Visitors and all members of the campus community benefit from a campus which is rich in diversity and provides high levels of accessibility for persons with disabilities.


An international education program provides educational opportunities for students from 37 other countries. Visiting scholars from around the world serve as resource individuals for area schools, businesses and industries, in addition to providing special lectures, seminars and workshops for Edinboro students and faculty.

Edinboro University of Pennsylvania Campus Logo

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History

Edinboro University of Pennsylvania 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 Allegheny Mountains and the second oldest in all of Pennsylvania. As a people, the Scots were both hearty and hardy. Their commitment to teaching and learning, their work ethic, and their strength of family tempered by upbringing in the great Highland Clans have brought a unique perspective and commitment to all we do at Edinboro University today. In the beginning, Edinboro modestly consisted of one two-story building, six classrooms, three instructors, 110 students and a principal. Edinboro now has more than 40 buildings on 585 acres and locations in Erie and Meadville. Edinboro University is celebrating its 150th anniversary in 2006-07. “Building prosperous future through academic excellence and civility” is the University-wide theme during the years leading to the Sesquicentennial. Today, the academic focus at Edinboro goes well beyond the training of teachers. It has been transformed into what is now northwestern Pennsylvania's largest and most comprehensive university, recognized as a leader in academic programs.


Scottish Heritage and Traditions

Edinboro University of Pennsylvania's mascot is MacCato the "Fighting Scot". The university and town that share the Edinboro name were founded by Scottish immigrants. Holding to its tradition, Edinboro University of Pennsylvania boasts of having a pipe band (a band that consists of bagpipes, snare drums and a bass drum) that performs with the university marching band and also performs alone. Edinboro offers an option in its music minor program for bagpipe performance, making it one of only a handful of schools in the nation to offer such a program. Each year, Edinboro University of Pennsylvania hosts the Highland Games. A Pipe band is a traditional Scottish musical group consisting of bagpipes and drums. ... A piper playing the Great Highland Bagpipe. ... The snare drum or side drum is a tubular drum made of wood or metal with skins, or heads, stretched over the top and bottom openings. ... It has been suggested that vruk be merged into this article or section. ... An American college marching band on the field (University of Texas) A marching band is a group of instrumental musicians who generally perform outdoors, and who incorporate movement â€“ usually some type of marching â€“ with their musical performance. ... Opening ceremonies of 2004 Canmore Highland games Highland games are festivals held throughout the year in Scotland and other countries as a way of celebrating Scottish and Celtic culture and heritage, especially that of the Scottish Highlands. ...

Edinboro University Fighting Scots

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Athletics

Edinboro University offers 14 intercollegiate sports: football, women's soccer, men's & women's cross country, women's volleyball, men's & women's basketball, men's & women's swimming, men's wrestling, women's softball, and men's & women's track. All but wrestling are NCAA Division II programs and members of the Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference. Wrestling competes on the NCAA Division I level, and is not only a member of the PSAC, but also competes in the prestigious Eastern Wrestling League. Edinboro was the first college in Pennsylvania to offer women's athletics when it formed the Girl's Athletic Association in 1897. Edinboro also had programs in men's soccer, men's golf, women's field hockey, men's & women's tennis, women's syncronized swimming, and men's baseball. The Fighting Scots athletic teams are perennial conference, regional, and national championship winners. The men's and women's cross country and track programs are legendary in NAIA and NCAA Division II circles, as is the Fighting Scots football team. The National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA, often said NC-Double-A) is a voluntary association of about 1200 institutions, conferences, organizations and individuals that organizes the athletics programs of many colleges and universities in the United States. ... The Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference (PSAC) is a College Athletic Conference which is made up exclusively of public schools in the Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education. ... The Eastern Wrestling League is a Division 1 Collegiate athletic conference. ... NAIA is an acronym (or an initialism) that can refer to the following: National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics in the United States. ... The National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA, often said NC-Double-A) is a voluntary association of about 1200 institutions, conferences, organizations and individuals that organizes the athletics programs of many colleges and universities in the United States. ...


Edinboro has one of the premier Division I wrestling programs. Prior to moving to the Division I level in 1986, Edinboro was already a national power in the NAIA and NCAA Division II levels. Edinboro has been fortunate to be home of one of the greatest Olympic and amateur wrestlers in the world, Bruce Baumgartner. Baumgartner came to Edinboro in 1984 as an assistant coach, and was promoted to head coach in 1991. He guided the Fighting Scots to three top 15 finishes in the National Championship tournament. The team is currently coached by Tim Flynn and continues to excel as a top program. Baumgartner became the Director of Athletics in 1997. All in all, Edinboro's wrestling program has produced 60 Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference champions, 40 Eastern Wrestling League champions, 40 NCAA All-Americans, 2 NCAA Division I champions, 8 national champions, 2 USA Olympic team members, 9 Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference tournament team championships, and 8 Eastern Wrestling League tournament team championships. Bruce Baumgartner (born August 31, 1962, in Haledon, New Jersey) is a retired American amateur wrestler and current Director of Athletics for the Edinboro University of Pennsylvania. ... The Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference (PSAC) is a College Athletic Conference which is made up exclusively of public schools in the Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education. ... The Eastern Wrestling League is a Division 1 Collegiate athletic conference. ... The Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference (PSAC) is a College Athletic Conference which is made up exclusively of public schools in the Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education. ... The Eastern Wrestling League is a Division 1 Collegiate athletic conference. ...


In accordance with Edinboro University's commitment to serving students with physical disabilities, it boasts one of the nation's best wheelchair basketball teams, the Rolling Scots. The team hosts an annual tournament, the Boro Shootout. In recent years, a club power wheelchair soccer team has been developed as well. Edinboro also boasts club men's ice hockey and men's golf teams, as well as a women's equestrian team, and a men's & women's ultimate frisbee team. Wheelchair basketball is a sport played primarily by people with disabilities. ... Ultimate Frisbee is a competitive non-contact team sport played with a Frisbee or similar flying disc most commonly weighing 175 g. ...


Student Life

Edinboro University boasts more than 100 student organizations encompassing academic clubs and honor societies, professional organizations, general student interests, music and theater organizations, and a dynamic and historic Greek Life community. Edinboro's Student Government Association provides a student voice on campus, manages a budget of over $1 million, and provides many student services. The student activity fee provides funding for student organizations, athletic programs, and campus programming. The University Programming Board plans and contracts for student activities such as sightseeing and shopping trips, free movies, concerts and comedians, notable guest speakers, and relaxing activities in the University Center. The terms fraternity and sorority (from the Latin words frater and soror, meaning brother and sister respectively) may be used to describe any number of social and charitable organizations, for example the Lions Club, Epsilon Sigma Alpha, Rotary International, or the Shriners. ...


For over 80 years, fraternity and sorority life has been a popular option for Edinboro students looking to stimulate and develop themselves academically, socially, and civically. Edinboro's Greek organizations contribute more service and charitable donations to Northwestern Pennsylvania than any other student groups. Some of Edinboro's most successful alumni have been members of social Greek organizations while a student at Edinboro. Edinboro is home to twelve social fraternities and seven social sororities:

Alpha Gamma Delta (ΑΓΔ) Founded in 1904, Alpha Gamma Delta is an international fraternity for women dedicated to academic excellence, leadership development, high ideals and sisterhood. ... Alpha Phi Alpha (ΑΦΑ) is the first intercollegiate fraternity established by African Americans. ... Alpha Sigma Alpha (ΑΣΑ) is a US national sorority founded on November 15, 1901 at Longwood College (now University) in Farmville, Virginia. ... Alpha Sigma Tau (AΣT) Sorority is a national collegiate sorority founded on November 4, 1899 at Michigan State Normal College (now Eastern Michigan University). ... ... Delta Zeta (ΔΖ) is a college sorority founded on October 24, 1902, at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio. ... Kappa Alpha Psi (KAΨ) is the second oldest collegiate Greek-letter fraternity with a predominantly African American membership and the first black intercollegiate fraternity incorporated as a national body. ... This article does not cite its references or sources. ... ΛΧΑ (Lambda Chi Alpha), headquartered in Indianapolis, Indiana, is one of the largest mens general fraternities in North America with more than 250,000 initiated members and chapters (called Zetas) at more than 300 universities. ... This article or section does not cite its references or sources. ... Phi Kappa Psi (ΦΚΨ, Phi Psi) is a U.S. national college fraternity. ... ΦΚΣ (Phi Kappa Sigma) is an international college fraternity. ... Phi Mu Alpha (ΦΜΑ) Sinfonia is a collegiate social fraternity for men of musicianly character. ... Theta Chi (ΘΧ) is an international college fraternity for men. ... Theta Xi (ΘΞ) is a fraternity founded at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy, New York on 29 April 1864. ... Sigma Sigma Sigma (ΣΣΣ), also known as Tri Sigma or Sigma, is a national American women’s sorority with membership of more than 92,000 members (as of August 1, 2006). ... Sigma Tau Gamma Fraternity (also known as Sig Tau or ΣΤΓ, is a U.S. all-male college social fraternity founded at an unusual hour in the morning on June 28, 1920 at Central Missouri State University (formerly known as Central Missouri State Teachers College) and set up their first house... Tau Kappa Epsilon (TKE, pronounced T-K-E or IPA , as in teak wood) is a college fraternity with chapters in the USA, and Canada, and affiliation with a German fraternity system known as the Corps of the Weinheimer Senioren Convent (WSC). ... Zeta Tau Alpha (ΖΤΑ) is a womens fraternity, founded October 15, 1898 at what used to be the Normal School for Girls but is now known as Longwood University in Farmville, Virginia. ...

Alumni

The Edinboro University Alumni Association has experienced dramatic growth during the past several years and now has well over 50,000 members. The alumni have played a major role in fund-raising efforts for student scholarships, and they continue to be some of the best ambassadors for Edinboro University. Alumni initiatives, led by the Alumni Association Board of Directors, include a Fighting Scot bronze statue, athletic and academic scholarship fund drives, the Annual Fund, and academic department and regional alumni programming and events.


Notable Alumni include:


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Edinboro University of Pennsylvania - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (311 words)
Edinboro University of Pennsylvania is a liberal arts university located in Edinboro, Pennsylvania, and one of 14 schools associated with the Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education.
Edinboro University of Pennsylvania's mascot is MacCato the "Fighting Scot".
Holding to its tradition, Edinboro University of Pennsylvania boasts of having a pipe band (a band that consists of bagpipes, snare drums and a bass drum) that performs with the university marching band and also performs alone.
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The department has been an active and highly visible component of Edinboro University for over 20 years and continues each semester to grow more diverse and exemplary.
The department boasts some of the best and brightest faculty the Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education has to offer, but the learning in the department takes place as much outside the classroom as it does inside.
Students can become involved in a variety of activities within their chosen field, including student organizations, conferences, and the annual Edinboro Highland Games.
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