page_title: University of Pittsburgh at Greensburg
section_title: History
hierarchical_section_title: University of Pittsburgh at Greensburg / History
caption_attribution_description: English: Clock and Millstein Library at the en:University of Pittsburgh at Greensburg
context_page_description: University of Pittsburgh at Greensburg is a state-related college in Greensburg, Pennsylvania. It is a state-related, baccalaureate degree-granting satellite campus of the University of Pittsburgh. Opened in 1963, Pitt-Greensburg was granted four-year degree-granting status in 1988. As of 2018, Pitt-Greensburg had 1,426 full-time undergraduates and 74 full-time faculty.
context_section_description: Pitt-Greensburg opened in September 1963, following a request of area school superintendents for a branch campus of the University of Pittsburgh.  Pitt-Greensburg began as a two-year institution with instruction in nine areas of study, 15 faculty, 56 full-time, and 156 part-time students. The school was originally located in the Vogle Building, a former private elementary school and Greensburg School System administrative building located at 122 North Maple Avenue in downtown Greensburg across from St. Clair Park. Fine arts classes were originally taught at the Westmoreland Museum of American Art, physical education was held at the Greensburg YMCA, and laboratory classes were held in what is now Greensburg Salem Middle School.  In 1964, the university purchased the 104-acre (0.42 km²) Charles McKenna Lynch estate in Hempfield.  At first, faculty offices and classrooms were split between Greensburg and Lynch Hall, a former residence on the Lynch estate campus. In 1976, the entire Pitt-Greensburg campus moved to the Hempfield location on the former Lynch estate.  Until 1988, when it received 4-year degree-granting status, Pitt-Greensburg served as a two-year feeder school to the main campus as the University of Pittsburgh in the Oakland section of Pittsburgh. By 1989, Pitt-Greensburg had its first graduating class.  In 1999, a distinctive feature of  Pitt-Greensburg opened when the first of three Academic Villages (Behavioral Sciences, Natural Sciences, and Humanities), where high-achieving students live in residences based on their majors and participate in after-class events geared to those disciplines. As of 2008, Pitt-Greensburg had more than 1,600 full-time students, 29 buildings, 249 faculty and staff, and 21 majors and 19 minors. Today (2018), the campus boasts 29 majors, 24 minors, and four certificate programs.
  Five presidents have led the campus since its founding: Al Smith (1963–1980), George Chambers (1980–1996), Frank Cassell (1997–2007), Sharon P. Smith (2007-2019), and Robert Gregerson who became Pitt-Greensburg's fifth president on July 1, 2019.
caption: The campus of the University of Pittsburgh Greensburg. The Millstein Library's Chew Memorial Window, a 32 by 14 foot leaded glass window titled Upward to the Light by Terry Bengel, can be seen behind the clock.
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