Penn State Harrisburg
Former names
Penn State Capitol Campus (1966–1986)
TypePublic satellite campus
Established1966 (1966)
Parent institution
Pennsylvania State University
ChancellorDr John Mason Jr[1]
PresidentNeeli Bendapudi
Academic staff
160 full time
98 part time
Undergraduates4,621 (as of 2021)[2]
Postgraduates812[3]
Location
Lower Swatara Township
,
Pennsylvania
,
U.S.
CampusSuburban, 218 acres (890,000 m²)
AffiliationsUEC (NCAA Division III)
MascotNittany Lion
Websiteharrisburg.psu.edu

Penn State Harrisburg, officially known as the Pennsylvania State University at Harrisburg—Capital College and also called The Capital College,[4] is an undergraduate college and graduate school of the Pennsylvania State University located in Lower Swatara Township, Pennsylvania.[5] The campus is located 9 miles (15 km) south of Harrisburg. Penn State offers two associate, 34 baccalaureate, 24 master's, and three doctoral degrees as well as certificate and certification programs. It was an upper division college (serving only juniors and seniors) from its founding in 1966 until accepting freshmen and sophomores in 2004.

The Penn State Eastgate Center, opened in 1991 in downtown Harrisburg, contains state agencies such as the Pennsylvania Securities Commission and Pennsylvania Municipal Retirement System as well as hearing rooms for workers compensation that also occupy space in the building. As of 2012, all classrooms and administrative personnel previously located in this building were relocated to the Middletown campus.

History

The college was initially founded in 1966 as the Penn State Capitol Campus. This new campus was exclusively for upper division undergraduates and graduate students. The first students graduated from the Capitol College in 1968, with the first on-campus graduation taking place in 1969.

The school gained college status in 1986 and was subsequently renamed as the Pennsylvania State University at Harrisburg—Capital College. Two years later, the college granted its first doctorate degrees.

The college welcomed its first four-year undergraduates in 2001, with its first student housing opening in 2002.[6] Penn State Harrisburg was considered fully transitioned into a four-year college by 2004.

Academics

As a college and graduate school of the Pennsylvania State University, Penn State Harrisburg grants associate, bachelor's, master's, and doctoral degrees. In addition to the 33 full baccalaureate programs it offers, as one of the 24 campuses of the Penn State, the college also offers the first two years of study leading to more than 160 majors offered throughout the Penn State system. The college also houses 24 master's degree programs, as well as doctoral programs in Adult Education, American Studies, and Public Administration.[7]

At the transfer level, the college serves students from all Commonwealth campuses of the Pennsylvania State University, as well as students from community colleges and other accredited colleges and universities.

The college also is the academic and administrative home of the Penn State Intercollege Master of Professional Studies Program in Homeland Security (iMPS-HLS), a partnership of six Penn State colleges sponsoring an online graduate degree program delivered by Penn State World Campus.

Location

Penn State Harrisburg's campus is easily accessible via major interstate routes and the Pennsylvania Turnpike at exit 247. Harrisburg International Airport is within one mile (1.6 km) of the campus, and public transportation serves the college. The Penn State Hershey Medical Center and Penn State Dickinson School of Law are also located nearby.

Athletics

After a 10-year break from intercollegiate athletics, Penn State–Harrisburg brought back the department as of fall of the 2005–06 academic year. In this short amount of time, they have been able to become members of the NCAA's Division III. They formerly competed primarily in the Capital Athletic Conference (CAC), from July, 2013- June, 2019. Penn State–Harrisburg was formerly a member of the North Eastern Athletic Conference (NEAC) from 2007–08 to 2012–13. Beginning July, 2019 PSU-H will rejoin the NEAC. Penn State–Harrisburg sponsors the following teams: men's and women's basketball, men's and women's cross country, golf, men's and women's soccer, baseball, softball, men's and women's tennis, and women's volleyball.

Library

As a medium-sized academic library with 275,000 volumes, over 1 million pieces of microfilm, 1,430 journal subscriptions, and 300 databases, the Penn State Harrisburg Library was planned from the outset as a "hybrid" print/electronic library that would easily accommodate new technologies without sacrificing the personal warmth of the traditional library. The library is a 115,000-square-foot (10,700 m2) modern facility and officially opened on January 10, 2000, for the start of spring semester.

Research centers and institutes

  • Center For Geographic Information Services, provides support for research, education, and outreach efforts requiring the use and analysis of spatial Information. This includes direct assistance to faculty, students, and staff and the development of occasional seminars and workshops on geographic information systems (GIS) software and applications.
  • Pennsylvania Center for Folklore, documents, studies, and interprets diverse communities and cultural traditions, especially in Pennsylvania.
  • Center for Holocaust and Jewish Studies, organizes research, teaching, and outreach programs on the Holocaust, as well as Jewish life and culture more broadly.
  • Center for Survey Research was established to provide professional and technical assistance in survey research methodologies. The CSR serves as a primary resource for state and local government, business, non-profit organizations and public utilities as well as faculty and students who are undertaking opinion research.
  • Cooperative Extension Capital Region Office
  • Economic Development Research And Training Center
  • Institute of State and Regional Affairs
  • Eastern American Studies Association
  • Pennsylvania Program to Improve State & Local Government
  • Pennsylvania State Data Center was established in 1981 by executive order of the governor and is Pennsylvania's official source of population and economic statistics and services. In addition to serving as Pennsylvania's liaison to the Census Bureau, the PSDC also serves as the state's representative to the Federal-State Cooperative Programs for Population Estimates and for Population Projections.
  • Center for Signal Integrity supports research and product development for local and national companies in analyzing high-speed electrical interconnects to improve the reliability and performance of digital systems.

Campus

The campus is built on the site of the decommissioned Olmsted Air Force Base.

Student life

Housing

The main on-campus housing, The Capital Village, is located on the northeast part of the campus. Additional housing is offered down Olmsted Drive; Nittany Apartments[8] can house up to 260 students in its 4-person apartments.[9]

Greek Life

The college has several fraternities and sororities.

Noted faculty

References

  1. ↑ "John Mason Jr. Appointed chancellor of Penn State Harrisburg | Penn State University".
  2. ↑ "Penn State Campuses".
  3. ↑ https://harrisburg.psu.edu/sites/default/files/2015factsheet_1.pdf
  4. ↑ "Better Know a Branch Campus: Penn State Harrisburg, The Capital College". Onward State. 2013-12-05. Retrieved 2016-05-24.
  5. ↑ "Lower Swatara township, Dauphin County, Pennsylvania Archived 2011-06-06 at the Wayback Machine." U.S. Census Bureau. Retrieved on March 2, 2010.
  6. ↑ "Milestones and Memories". harrisburg.psu.edu. Penn State Harrisburg. Retrieved 29 October 2023.
  7. ↑ "About Penn State Harrisburg". Penn State Harrisburg. Archived from the original on 2016-06-15. Retrieved 2016-05-24.
  8. ↑ "Board OKs purchase of Nittany Village apartment complex, additional land | Penn State University". news.psu.edu. Retrieved 2021-01-29.
  9. ↑ "Nittany Village | Harrisburg | Housing & Food Services". harrisburgcampusliving.psu.edu. Retrieved 2021-01-29.
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