The University of Pittsburgh at Johnstown will join the Pennsylvania State Athletic Conference beginning the 2013-14 academic year.

A formal announcement will made announcing UPJ's full-time membership, along with Seton Hill, which is located in Greensburg, at a press conference Tuesday at noon at the UPJ Athletics Hall of Fame Room inside the Sports Center.

UPJ and Seton Hill will join to form an 18-team PSAC, which will be the largest conference in NCAA Division II athletics.

In May, twelve schools from the West Virginia Intercollegiate Athletic Conference, of which UPJ is currently a member, announced their intentions to form their own all-sports conference with an emphasis on football. The decision was made at that time to leave UPJ and Seton Hill behind.

"One door closes, another door opens," UPJ athletic director Pat Pecora said at the time.

As it turns out, the PSAC could present Pitt-Johnstown with its best long-term home. UPJ will not start a football program, but it will be able to develop natural, regional rivalries with schools like Indiana University of Pennsylvania (IUP), Clarion, Slippery Rock, and California (Pa.).

PSAC comissioner Steve Murray will be on hand at Pitt-Johnstown for Tuesday's press conference, along with UPJ President Dr. Jem Spectar and Seton Hill President Dr. JoAnn Boyle.