Originally posted by Wcball00
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Everyone else was founded independently to train teachers then eventually went from state related to state owned in 1914. IUP was the first PA state teachers college to progress to state college, but everyone else followed suit not long after. But IUP had so much size and momentum that they only spent 5 years as a state college before becoming a state university. For one year, IUP was the state's only university west of State College. There were some in Harrisburg that wanted IUP to be the state university in the West and Temple in the East. But then the University of Pittsburgh rapidly approached bankruptcy, the state bailed them out, and they took IUP's place. So I guess you should say the IUP Rule began in 1966.
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