Penn State Beaver
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| Type | Public |
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| Established | 1965 |
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Parent institution
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Pennsylvania State University |
| Chancellor | Jenifer Cushman |
| President | Eric J. Barron |
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Academic staff
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200+ full-time and part-time |
| Students | 720 |
| Location | Center Township, Beaver County, PA, United States |
| Colors | Blue & White |
| Mascot | Nittany Lion |
| Affiliations | PSUAC (USCAA) |
| Website | www.br.psu.edu |
Penn State Beaver is a commonwealth campus of Pennsylvania State University located in Center Township, Beaver County, Pennsylvania, United States.
The land where the campus now exists was once a farm owned by the Hartenbach family. The family home still stands today and faces Brodhead Road, and the barn once stood on the present site of the Brodhead Cultural Center's amphitheater. The main part of the campus’s grounds has served multiple purposes throughout the years. One of its main functions was as the Beaver County Tuberculosis Sanitorium, which opened on February 14, 1923. The building, which later served as the Penn State Beaver administration building from 1965 until 2004 when the Ross Administration Building was opened, held 20 beds and its primary physicians were Drs Fred and Ruth Wilson.
As tuberculosis cases began to decline in the Beaver County area the sanitorium was closed in the early 1950s. For a short time after this, the building was used as an annex for the Beaver County Geriatric Hospital before it was moved to its new location on Dutch Ridge Road in 1963. It was also around this time that that Hartenbach farm was sold to Pennsylvania State University with a contingent that Ralph Hartenbach and his wife could live in their house until their deaths.
The Beaver County Commissioners donated the old sanitorium and the land around it to Penn State. In the fall of 1965, Penn State Beaver admitted 97 students for its first semester. Each student paid $525 for two semesters.
Penn State Beaver offers the first two years of almost all of Penn State's more than 160 baccalaureate majors. Students can also complete six bachelor's degrees, four associate degrees, and a master's of education degree at Beaver campus.
Opened in 1968, the library was a part of the first campus building project after Penn state Beaver opened in 1965. The building now houses over 40,000 books and students are able to also check out DVDs and CDs. The Library Information Access System (LIAS) and CAT (Penn State’s card catalogue system) can also be accessed from the computers located in the building as well as from any computer with internet access. Through these systems, students can access any book in the Penn State Library system as well as books from other colleges and universities. Located in the downstairs of the building is a classroom and study.
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