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LL.D., Union College (1852) Before becoming the President of the Agricultural College of Pennsylvania Allen was the President of Girard College for 12 years. He also served 10 years at Dickinson College as professor and a year as president. He arrived at Penn State with the burden of a $50,000 debt the infant institution had amassed to that point.
October 29, 1974. Designated PHMC. 1992 [2] Girard College is an independent college preparatory five-day boarding school located on a 43-acre campus in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. The school was founded and permanently endowed from the shipping and banking fortune of Stephen Girard upon his death in 1831.
Pennsylvania State University. Neeli Bendapudi is an Indian-American academic administrator who is the 19th president of Pennsylvania State University. [1] From 2018 until 2021, she served as the 18th president of the University of Louisville. [2] In December 2021, Penn State announced Bendapudi as the university's president; she succeeded Eric ...
After receiving his Master of Arts and Doctor of Philosophy degrees from Penn in 1924 and 1928, respectively, he taught Latin at the university until 1933, when he was named dean of Penn's College of Liberal Arts for Women. Odgers was then named president of Girard College, a Philadelphia secondary school for orphan boys. He held that position ...
The Pennsylvania State University was founded on February 22, 1855 by act P.L.46, No.50 of the General Assembly of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania as the Farmers' High School of Pennsylvania. Centre County became the home of the new school when James Irvin of Bellefonte donated 200 acres (809,000 m 2) of land and sold the trustees 200 acres ...
Pennsylvania State University. / 40.79833°N 77.86000°W / 40.79833; -77.86000. 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. Founded in 1855 as Farmers' High School of ...
Lafayette, Indiana, U.S. Children. 2. Alma mater. Florida State University ( B.S.) University of Miami ( M.S. and Ph.D.) Eric James Barron (born October 26, 1951) is an American academic administrator who was the 18th president of Pennsylvania State University from 2014 until 2022. [1] He previously was the 14th president of Florida State ...
Graham Basil Spanier (born July 18, 1948) is a South African-born American sociologist and university administrator who became the 16th president of Pennsylvania State University on September 1, 1995. On November 9, 2011, in the wake of the Penn State child sex abuse scandal, Spanier and longtime football coach Joe Paterno were “removed from ...