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Comment[edit]

In and of itself, this page needs to be added to. Suto 19:11, 19 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Rationale behind branch campuses[edit]

I think this is an accurate statement, but I want to check it first:

The Pennsylvania State University Commonwealth Campus system was created by Penn State during the Great Depression of the 1930s in order to ensure that a (quality) Penn State education be avialable locally to residents of the Commonwealth. Rob 21:29, 20 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Link to Commonwealth Campus articles[edit]

Penn State Live has a site that has reprints from Intercom, the Penn State's faculty/staff newspaper, about branch campuses. Sorry if this is a repeat for anyone. Rob 22:05, 20 March 2006 (UTC)[reply]

this group does still not exist with this name[edit]

delete if you want, but it doesn't make it true

I think everybody would agree that they would like information about Penn State to be correct. So what is the new name of the Commonwealth Education System? What do you call a Penn State campus that is not University Park? Many sites in the psu.edu domain call them Commonwealth Campuses.

If you know of the official name of "this group". please supply a reference. Rob 07:49, 3 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Penn State Network[edit]

Commonwealth Campuses may now be known as the Penn State Network, although I'm not sure when that name came into being. I checked the latest Faculty Staff directory, and the entry for Commonwealth Campuses directs you to the map of the Penn State Network. I can't find any references about the network of campuses on the net though. Rob 13:30, 3 April 2006 (UTC)[reply]

I do believe Commonwealth Campuses is still a perfectly valid name for the branch campuses, but Commonwealth Campus is not. I believe the "Commonwealth Campus" was an academic college (like "World Campus") which has now been replaced by the Altoona College, the Berks and Lehigh Valley College, etc. I would propose renaming this article to Commonwealth Campuses. It's either that or "Branch Campuses" which doesn't sound too nice. --Mithunc 20:01, 30 January 2007 (UTC)[reply]

University College[edit]

It would be useful to say which campuses have college status, and which are part of University College. I assume from their names that Harrisburg and Erie have college status, but what are the other three? john k (talk) 21:42, 15 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Material I've looked up suggests, but does not directly state, that Abington, Altoona, Berks, Erie, and Harrisburg are their own colleges, and that the rest are part of University College. Is that correct?

Map: Erie and Brandywine[edit]

On my display, the dots for both Erie and Brandywine are outside the state boundaries, do we have Lat/Long for the campuses and can we calculate the correctly?Naraht (talk) 15:09, 30 January 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Bumping this. It's still incorrect. Is there a guide to creating similar graphics? I would be willing to put in the time to re-do it as long as there's a guide. Additionally, the overlapping text is illegible, which I would concurrently fix. --Hoyadonis (talk) 19:54, 30 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Making new Commonwealth Campus map[edit]

As pointed out by others, this article could greatly use a new map featuring the locations of the commonwealth campuses. Steps to do it can be found here: Template:Location map/Creating a new map definition. See also: Wikipedia:WikiProject Maps --Hoyadonis (talk) 20:39, 30 October 2019 (UTC)[reply]

Commonwealth Campus 'naming'[edit]

Given the commonwealth title for the various branch campus implies that they carry lower 'status' than the main campus. I've even heard that this name implies that it's not the same organization as with the 'real' PSU main campus and that it's a form of community college instead. It would be nice to stress that's not the case in the article as I've felt this implied lesser status for years...