Timeline^[2]

Presidents' Athletic Conference

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Bethany

Hiram

Allegheny

Case Western

Carnegie Mellon

Franciscan

Geneva

Chatham

Saint Vincent

Westminster

Waynesburg

Grove City

Wash. & Jeff.

Thiel

  

Location of PAC members: full, affiliate, and future

• 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 (PAC).
• 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 (Eastern Michigan) 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 (the male undergraduate school of the former Western Reserve University) 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.
• 1989 – John Carroll University and Hiram College leave the PAC.
• 1990 – Carnegie Mellon University leaves the PAC, and Waynesburg College (University) 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 (now University) 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 (ACAA); 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.
• 2022
  • Allegheny rejoined the PAC, effective July 1.
  • The PAC announced that it would add men's volleyball starting in 2024–25. At the time of announcement, the men's volleyball league was planned to start with six full members. Geneva, Saint Vincent, and Thiel were associate members of the Allegheny Mountain Collegiate Conference; Bethany and Chatham were committed to adding men's volleyball in 2023–24; and Grove City was to add men's volleyball in 2024–25.^[8]
• 2023 – The PAC announced that its future men's volleyball league would also include former full member Hiram as a single-sport member.^[9]
• 2024 – The PAC announced that Hiram would join for administrative purposes on July 1, 2024 and start full conference competition in 2025–26.^[6]

Diversity, equity, and inclusion (DEI) initiatives

In 2021, the NCAA announced that Kate Costanzo of Allegheny College – a former NCAC staff member affiliated with the PAC – was a finalist for the NCAA Division III LGBTQ Administrator/Coach/Staff of the Year Award.^[10]

Active members

The Presidents' has 11 full members, all private schools.

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Future member

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Associate members

The Presidents' has two associate members, both of which joined for football only since the 2014 fall season (2014–15 school year) and have remained in PAC football to this day. Hiram will join for men's volleyball when the PAC adds the sport in 2024–25, a year before it returns to conference competition in other sports.

Future associate member

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Former members

The Presidents' has 10 former full members, with all but two being private schools. Hiram will rejoin the PAC for men's volleyball in 2024 and for other sports in 2025.

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Membership timeline