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Pennsylvania State
University
We Are ….
Penn State!
Brett Bixler
Phil Coolick
Lynn Garrison
Bill Myers
Carl Seybold
PSU History
Humble
Beginnings
Growth
Coming of
Age
1855 Centre County became
the site of the new college 200
acres from agriculturist and
ironmaster James Irvin of
Bellefonte
1882 George W. Atherton
became president of what had
then had become The
Pennsylvania State College
President Milton Eisenhower
changed the name in 1953 to
The Pennsylvania State
University
1863 the Agricultural College of
Pennsylvania became the
Commonwealth's sole landgrant institution
In the 1930s a series of branch
campuses throughout
Pennsylvania for students who
could not afford to leave home
to attend college
The Hershey Medical Center
was established in 1967 with a
$50 million gift from chocolate
magnate Milton S. Hershey
64 undergraduates were
enrolled in 1875.
Enrollment surpassed 5,000 in
1936 becoming the
Commonwealth’s largest source
of baccalaureate degrees
In 1997, Penn State and the
Dickinson School of Law joined
ranks
Old Main
Old Main - 1863
Penn State Campuses
Research
Beaver Stadium
Joe Paterno
PSU Enrollment
Fall to Fall Comparison
2007 and 2006
2007
2006
Change
42,294
42,039
255
Study Abroad
225
200
25
Off-campus Programs
320
326
(6)
Outreach Enrollments
413
349
64
Total University Park
43,252
42,914
338
Commonwealth Campuses
33,149
31,632
1,517
Great Valley
1,238
1,319
(81)
Dickinson School of Law - Carlisle
464
496
(32)
College of Medicine
815
791
24
6,682
6,569
113
85,600
83,721
1,879
5,009
4,697
312
90,609
88,418
2,191
University Park Campus
PA College of Technology
Total
World Campus
Total Including World Campus
ITS Facts
Did you know that in 2007...
• The Penn State home page logged an average 2.49 million hits per day.
• Over 441,000 transactions were processed through the ITS centralized
eCommerce system
• Penn State's e-mail servers handled an average of 4.7 million e-mails
each day
• Library Services for Persons with Disabilities scanned 114,238 pages to
accommodate 40 students with disabilities
• Integrated Backbone traffic volume approached 100,000 terabits,
connecting over 100,000 nodes
• ITS will support 16,005 classroom seats at UP this fall, which will offer
more than 30 million hours of instruction
ITS Hot Issues
A group of IT experts, called ITS ITANA, is currently analyzing the IT
architecture employed in mission critical systems at Penn State and will
recommend new models to serve the future needs of students, faculty, and
staff
Penn State's newly created Identity and Access Management (lAM) council
will unveil a strategy for managing access to Penn State's ever-growing IT
infrastructure, and for securing the digital identities of its users
The Information, Privacy and Security (IPAS) Team was formed in Fall of 2006
who’s primary goal is to assure the privacy of critical information and to
comply with internal policies and external regulations affecting Penn State
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