Penn State Berks is a commonwealth campus of Pennsylvania State University located in Spring Township in Berks County, Pennsylvania. The school traces its origins to 1927 and the establishment of a training school for workers for the Textile Machine Works, a major company in the region's textile industry. This school, which was known as the Educati…
Penn State Berks is a commonwealth campus of Pennsylvania State University located in Spring Township in Berks County, Pennsylvania. The school traces its origins to 1927 and the establishment of a training school for workers for the Textile Machine Works, a major company in the region's textile industry. This school, which was known as the Educational Department of Textile Machine Works from 1927 to 1933 and then was the Wyomissing Polytechnic Institute from 1933 to 1958, was established with the aid of the then-Pennsylvania State College. WPI occupied the original Sacred Heart Church building on Hill Road, where the McDonald's Restaurant now stands, from 1930 to 1958. WPI, which is considered the first official predecessor to Penn State Berks, closed in 1958 with the down-turn of the textile industry at large in the Reading area.
Former names: Educational Department of Textile Machine Works (1927–1933) · Wyomissing Polytechnic Institute (1933–1958) · Wyomissing Center of The Pennsylvania State University (1958–1964) · Penn State Berks Center (1964–1972) · Penn State Berks-Lehigh Valley College (1997–2005)
Type: Public satellite campus
Established: 1927 (predecessor) · July 1, 1958 (Penn State system)
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