PITTSBURGH — Some of the signs are as tiny as business cards. Others are large enough to stamp on the exterior of classroom buildings or to grandly announce an entrance to these three institutions, each more than a century and a half old.
What those signs have in common is this: Each points to a state university in Western Pennsylvania that no longer exists.
That's why leaders of Pennsylvania Western University at California, Clarion and Edinboro are on a mission to find and remove "university" from all kinds of markers, online and on campus, adhering to July 1 mergers, while respecting the traditions of what were three member universities of the State System of Higher Education.
