Pennsylvania Western University, the Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education institution made from the 2022 merger of Clarion, Edinboro and California universities, has announced its intent to transfer ownership of its Venango satellite campus.
For decades, the modest hillside campus embodied the State System of Higher Education’s promise to deliver a public university education wherever needed — in this case, a small satellite location in the heart of Pennsylvania’s oil region. Students attending what was then the Venango branch of Clarion University in Oil