Pennsylvania Western, or PennWest, will have three campuses, in Edinboro, Clarion and California. It will have a single administration, faculty and staff with individual employees based at one of the three campuses. The goal is to offer a larger, combined array of courses while cutting operating costs, largely by eliminating positions and redundancies. More than 300 positions at the three schools have been eliminated, but without layoffs, PennWest President Dale-Elizabeth Pehrsson said. More than 400 faculty and staff members took advantage of incentives to retire, she said.
