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Widener University. / 39.8607; -75.3551. Widener University is a private university in Chester, Pennsylvania. The university has three other campuses: two in Pennsylvania ( Harrisburg and Exton) and one in Wilmington, Delaware . Founded as The Bullock School for Boys in 1821, the school was established in Wilmington, Delaware.
The Widener University School of Law in Harrisburg was founded in 1989, as an expansion of Widener University's existing law school in Wilmington, Delaware. Anthony J. Santoro, who served as Dean of law from 1983 to 1992, felt that there was a need for legal education in Harrisburg, the capital city of the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. [6]
Master's Colleges & Universities: Medium Programs 2,516 1850 Widener University: Chester city: Delaware: private secular Doctoral/Professional Universities 7,000 1821 Wilkes University: Wilkes-Barre city: Luzerne: private secular Doctoral/Professional Universities 5,926 1933 Yeshivah Bais Moshe: Scranton city: Lackawanna: Jewish (Orthodox Judaism)
Widener University Law School was founded in 1971 as the Delaware Law School and became affiliated with Widener in 1975. In 1989, it was known as Widener University School of Law when it was combined with the campus in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania. In 2015, the two campuses separated, with the Harrisburg one renamed to Widener University ...
There are 198 ABA accredited law schools, along with one law school provisionally accredited by the ABA. [2] The ABA occasionally revokes accreditation, as was done mostly recently with the Thomas Jefferson School of Law in 2019. In the past decade, since 2014, 11 law schools have closed, with the most recent closing, of Golden Gate University ...
Peter Arrell Browne Widener (November 13, 1834 – November 6, 1915) was an American businessman, art collector, and patriarch of the Widener family of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. [1] Widener was ranked #29 on the American Heritage list of the forty richest Americans in history, with a net worth at death of $23 billion to $25 billion (in 1998 ...
Bronze Star. Patrick Joseph Murphy (born October 19, 1973) is an American politician and attorney who served as the 32nd United States Under Secretary of the Army. He was the first veteran of the Iraq War to be elected to the United States House of Representatives, representing Pennsylvania's 8th congressional district from 2007 to 2011.
Wayne Langerholc Jr. is a Pennsylvania attorney, former prosecutor, and politician. A Republican, he is a senator representing District 35 in the Pennsylvania Senate. Before his election to the state senate in 2016, Langerholc was an assistant district attorney in Cambria County and a township supervisor. [1] [2] He attended Widener University ...