Talk:Pennsylvania State University Commonwealth Campus

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

Contents 1 Rationale behind branch campuses 2 Link to Commonwealth Campus articles 3 this group does still not exist with this name 4 Penn State Network

[edit] Rationale behind branch campuses

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)

[edit] Link to Commonwealth Campus articles

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)

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

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)

[edit] Penn State Network

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)

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 I believe the "Commonwealth Campus" was an academic college (like "World Campus") which has now been replaced by the Altoona College, the Berks and Lehigh Valley College, etc.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)