WE ARE.....PENN COMMONWEALTH?
Why isn't the university named The Pennsylvania Commonwealth University?
Why isn't the university named The Pennsylvania Commonwealth University?
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Why isn't the university named The Pennsylvania Commonwealth University?
WE ARE.....PENN COMMONWEALTH?
Why isn't the university named The Pennsylvania Commonwealth University?
Commonwealth is a specific for of "State Government". I believe 3 of the 50 States use a Commonwealth stucture: PA, VA and MA.
Kentucky is also called a Commonwealth. It's been too long since my 9th grade Civics class, but I don't believe that there is much if any difference in how the four Commonwealths are governed than the other states. Puerto Rico is also a Commonwealth, and as everyone knows, there are considerable differences.
Commonwealth is a specific for of "State Government". I believe 3 of the 50 States use a Commonwealth stucture: PA, VA and MA.
WE ARE.....PENN COMMONWEALTH?
Why isn't the university named The Pennsylvania Commonwealth University?
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Of course, there is a Virginia Commonwealth University.
Of course, there is a Virginia Commonwealth University.
It might have to do with PSU being the land grant university.
A land-grant college or university is an institution that has been designated by its state legislature or Congress to receive the benefits of the Morrill Acts of 1862 and 1890.
That is correct -- the vast majority of the "Land Grant Universities" where the State endowed and named a single institution to be the sole-beneficiary of Morrill Act Federal Land Grant (some States spit the proceeds of the Federal Land Grants among multiple schools), the most common names applied to those schools either via founding or name-change was "[insert sponsoring State name] State University" or "[insert sponsoring State name] A&M University".