Or should it be “Penn State-Related University” since posters from Pennsylvania sometimes make the distinction that PSU and other CSHE schools are state-related rather than actual state universities like the PASSHE schools?
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Either way, University of Southern California like Northwestern…is a “Directional School”
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The University of Reading covers multiple fields. Not just the one.
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Except that Wake Forest College was actually in the town of Wake Forest. Moved to Winston-Salem in 1956.
In Canada Waterloo Lutheran University changed its name to Wilfred Laurier University when it was secularized. They had no particular affection for Wilfred Laurier, a former Prime Minister, but the school’s initials would stay the same.
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Northwestern isn’t really in the Northwestern US…but I do get that at one time that area of the country was considered the “Northwest.” Kind of like how Northwest Airlines was based in the midwest…
California State University-Channel Islands is not actually on the Channel Islands…
I have walked around Purdue several times and never seen a chicken.
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