Presidents' Athletic Conference

History

Membership evolution

• 1955 – Charter members Western Reserve University, John Carroll University, and Case Institute of Technology in Cleveland, along with Wayne State University in Detroit, come together to form the Presidents' Athletic Conference.
• 1958 – The PAC adds four additional members - Allegheny College in Meadville, Pa.; Bethany College in Bethany, W.Va.; Thiel College in Greenville, Pa.; and Washington & Jefferson College in Washington, Pa., bringing the total number of conference members to eight.
• 1962 – The PAC accepted the University of Ypsilanti as its ninth member.
• 1966 – Wayne State and Eastern Michigan withdrew from the PAC following the 1966–67 academic year, leaving the conference with seven members.
• 1967 – Case Institute of Technology and Western Reserve University federated into a new institution known as Case Western Reserve University. The undergraduate student bodies remained separate, however, and both Case Tech and Adelbert College continued to field separate teams.
• 1968 – Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh is accepted into the PAC.
• 1970 – Case Western Reserve University begins to compete as one program, no longer fielding teams as Case Tech and Adelbert.
• 1972 – Hiram College in Hiram, Ohio is accepted into the PAC.
• 1983 – Allegheny College and Case Western Reserve University leave the PAC following the 1983–84 academic year.
• 1984 – Grove City College in Grove City, Pa., is accepted into the PAC.
• 1984–85 – The PAC sponsors women's athletic championships for the first time.
• 1988 – John Carroll University leaves the PAC.
• 1989 – Carnegie Mellon University and Hiram College leave the PAC.
• 1990 – Waynesburg College in Waynesburg, Pa., is accepted into the PAC.
• 1996 – Alfred College in Alfred, N.Y., is accepted into the PAC.
• 1998 – Alfred College leaves the PAC.
• 2000 – Westminster College in New Wilmington, Pa., is accepted into the PAC.
• 2005 – Thomas More College in Crestview Hills, Ky., is accepted into the PAC.
• 2006 – Saint Vincent College in Latrobe, Pa., is accepted into the PAC
• 2007 – Geneva College in Beaver Falls, Pa., and Chatham University in Pittsburgh are both accepted into the PAC, bringing the conference to 10 full-time members.
• 2011 – Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh and Case Western Reserve in Cleveland are both admitted to the PAC as affiliate members in the sport of football beginning in the 2014–15 academic year.
• 2018
• * Thomas More left the PAC for the American Collegiate Athletic Association ; it was an ACAA member for only one year, as it returned to the NAIA in 2019 as a member of the Mid-South Conference.
• * Franciscan University of Steubenville, in the Ohio city of that name, joined the PAC for men's and women's lacrosse.
• 2019 – Franciscan added women's golf plus indoor and outdoor track & field for both men and women to its PAC membership.
• 2020 – Franciscan became a full PAC member.

  Member schools

Current members

• Franciscan was a PAC associate member in seven sports before becoming a full member in 2020:
• * Men's and women's lacrosse joined in 2018.
• * Women's golf, plus men's and women's indoor and outdoor track & field, joined in 2019.

  Associate members

Former members

Membership timeline

Sports