Section 8.2 Combined Meetings
Before considering the themes of the spring meetings, we pause to examine the sites of the combined 103 meetings, including the 75 annual fall meetings, the 25 annual spring meetings, the special meetings held in April and October 1975, and the special meeting in October 1990. Table 8.2.1 lists the 34 different institutions that have hosted at least one of the section’s 101 meetings from the organizational meeting in 1926 through the fall meeting in the year 2000.
The final column in Table 8.2.1 classifies each institution into one of five categories: D (doctoral university), S (belongs to the State System of Higher Education), F (other four-year school that does not offer doctoral programs), B (branch campus), and CC (Community College). Table 8.2.2 summarizes the hosting institutions for the 103 meetings according to this classification. The second column gives the number of different institutions in each category. The final column indicates that the section’s meetings were held primarily at four-year schools or doctoral universities (82.5% altogether), split almost evenly. The remaining 18 meetings were almost evenly split between universities in the State System (10) and a combined category of branch campuses/community colleges (8).
| Location | Fall | Spring | Special | Total | C |
| University of Pennsylvania | 16 | 2 | 18 | D | |
| Drexel University | 7 | 7 | D | ||
| Lehigh University | 6 | 1 | 7 | D | |
| Swarthmore College | 6 | 1 | 7 | F | |
| University of Delaware | 5 | 5 | D | ||
| Ursinus College | 2 | 3 | 5 | F | |
| Haverford College | 4 | 4 | F | ||
| Millersville University | 2 | 2 | 4 | S | |
| Penn State – Ogontz/Abington | 3 | 1 | 4 | B | |
| Villanova University | 2 | 2 | 4 | F | |
| West Chester University | 3 | 1 | 4 | S | |
| Franklin & Marshall College | 2 | 3 | F | ||
| Bryn Mawr College | 2 | 2 | F | ||
| Cedar Crest College | 1 | 1 | 2 | F | |
| Lafayette College | 2 | 2 | F | ||
| Lebanon Valley College | 1 | 1 | 2 | F | |
| Montgomery County Community College | 2 | 2 | CC | ||
| Messiah College | 2 | 2 | F | ||
| Moravian College | 1 | 1 | 2 | F | |
| Muhlenberg College | 2 | 2 | F | ||
| Albright College | 1 | 1 | F | ||
| Bloomsburg University | 1 | 1 | S | ||
| Community College of Philadelphia | 1 | 1 | CC | ||
| Delaware State College | 1 | 1 | F | ||
| Elizabethtown College | 1 | 1 | F | ||
| Gettysburg College | 1 | 1 | F | ||
| Harrisburg Area Community College | 1 | 1 | CC | ||
| King’s College | 1 | 1 | F | ||
| Kutztown University | 1 | 1 | S | ||
| LaSalle College | 1 | 1 | F | ||
| New Jersey College for Women | 1 | 1 | D | ||
| Princeton University | 1 | 1 | D | ||
| Rosemont College | 1 | 1 | F | ||
| Shippensburg University | 1 | 1 | S | ||
| Temple University | 1 | 1 | D | ||
| Classification | Number | Fall | Spring | Special | Total |
| F | 19 | 28 | 15 | 2 | 45 |
| B | 1 | 3 | 1 | 4 | |
| CC | 3 | 2 | 1 | 1 | 4 |
| D | 7 | 37 | 3 | 40 | |
| S | 4 | 5 | 5 | 10 | |
