William Penn University is a private, liberal arts university in Oskaloosa, Iowa, United States. It was founded by members of the Religious Society of Friends (Quakers) in 1873 as Penn College. In 1933, the name was changed to William Penn College, and finally to William Penn University in 2000.
Athletes ("Statesmen") play in the Midwest Classic Conference of the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics for most sports, and the affiliated Mid-States Football Association for football. Before 2000, the school was a part of the NCAA division III.
In 2007, Musco Lighting, also in Oskaloosa, donated $12 million to the school for various projects—the biggest single gift in the school's history. The money is to be used for 200,000 square feet (19,000 m2) of new structures including student recreation, classrooms, laboratories, and a stand-alone Industrial Technology Center building, which will be home for the expanding Digital Broadcast Studies Program.
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“So little time we live in Time,
And we learn all so painfully,
That we may spare this hour’s term
To practice for Eternity.”
—Robert Penn Warren (1905–1989)
“If not us, who? If not now, when?”
—Slogan by Czech university students in Prague, November 1989. quoted in Observer (London, Nov. 26, 1989)