LETTER: The difference between university and college
The media, at every level, when dealing with “higher ed” sports information, does not know the word university. The word “college” is the norm. Guess what: there are only seven colleges, of 133, in Division I sports and 21, of 162, in Division II.
University lost its original meaning decades ago when very small schools substituted their original designations. All 141 of the Division II schools did. The Pennsylvania State System of Higher Education is an excellent example – I taught at California University of Pennsylvania, now stupidly renamed PennWest University.
A few of the Division I schools did. It’s as if it gave them/us a new status. Did it? No.
J.K. Folmar I
California