History
Dixon University Center was once the home of the Harrisburg Academy, whose leaders built the six historic structures on the grounds today. The Academy maintained the location until 1941, when the War Department took over the facility. Since 1956, the Center has functioned in various configurations as an educational consortium. In 1987, the Center's Board of Directors, a community corporation, invited the State System of Higher Education—the 14 publicly owned universities—to lead the University Center at Harrisburg consortium and insure continuation of its higher education mission. PASSHE began operating the six-and-one-half-acre site under a lease/purchase agreement in 1988, and purchased the site in 1991. In 1993, the PASSHE Board of Governors acknowledged the leadership and generosity of its founding chairman, Fitz Eugene Dixon, Jr., by renaming the Center in his honor. Under PASSHE's stewardship, the six original structures were renovated to make the facility adequate for classroom instruction and business purposes.
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