Students see Purdue up close
Area high school students have been experiencing college classes through a new “Day in College” recruiting event at five statewide locations.
Initiated in the spring of 2007 by Andy Schaffer, director of the New Albany, Columbus, and Greensburg locations, the event gives select students a glimpse of what to expect from college classes. The Indianapolis and Anderson locations hosted their first Day in College events last fall.
Nominated by guidance counselors and teachers, the students attend classes and laboratories with their parent or guardian. They also receive additional information about admissions and financial aid.
“It’s a wonderful way for students to get an up-close look at the world-class educational opportunities Purdue offers right in their community,” Schaffer says.
New Albany location to expand
The New Albany location will expand to the Purdue Technology Center of Southeast Indiana in the fall of 2008. The 40,000-square-foot Purdue Technology Center will be built by Purdue Research Foundation on 40 acres of land donated by the Shine family, founders and owners of Samtec Inc., an electronic interconnect manufacturer.
Purdue’s College of Technology will use 22,000 square feet of the new facility for classrooms, labs, and faculty offices. Combined with 7,600 square feet at the existing New Albany campus at Indiana University Southeast, the total space supports the college’s plan to expand its offerings.
The technology center will also house business incubator offices, an economic development office, and an office for Purdue’s Technical Assistance Program, which connects companies with Purdue resources and assists them in implementing state-of-the-art technologies.
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College expands options around the state
Over the past year, the College of Technology has made it easier for more students around the state to earn a diploma from Purdue. New degree options, tuition agreements, and even a new site where students can take classes are helping to expand the college’s presence in Indiana.
Three programs have been approved for expansion from associate’s to bachelor’s degrees at the college’s New Albany location: computer graphics technology in the fall 2007 semester and electrical engineering technology and mechanical engineering technology in August 2008.
At the Columbus location, the mechanical engineering technology program started offering a bachelor’s degree in fall 2007.
Also since fall 2007, Vincennes University students who have completed the associate’s program have been able to enroll in classes at Vincennes that lead to a bachelor’s degree in industrial technology granted by Purdue and its statewide technology program. The first two years of the program are administered through Vincennes University, and the junior- and senior-level courses are administered through Purdue and taught by Purdue faculty. The bachelor’s degrees will be awarded from Purdue.
Another agreement that began last fall makes it possible for students at all Ivy Tech Community College locations to transfer credits to Purdue’s College of Technology. Purdue’s systemwide articulation agreement with Ivy Tech includes three technology programs: organizational leadership and supervision, industrial technology and engineering/technology teacher education. The agreement allows Ivy Tech students to transfer credits to the college’s West Lafayette campus and any of the 10 statewide locations that offer these programs. Ivy Tech students can transfer up to half the credits required to earn a bachelor’s degree at Purdue.
Also, the College of Technology at New Albany, along with Indiana University Southeast and Ivy Tech Southern Indiana in Sellersburg, are now allowing students living in Trimble County, Kentucky, to pay in-state tuition at each of those institutions. The agreement makes it easier for Trimble County students to earn a degree in engineering technology, because the next closest university — the University of Louisville — offers degrees only in engineering and not technology. Purdue at New Albany also has tuition reciprocity agreements with Jefferson, Oldham, and Bullitt counties in Kentucky.
Statewide new leadership
A new associate dean for statewide technology and a new statewide location director joined the College of Technology this academic year.
Duane D. Dunlap has been appointed associate dean for statewide technology. He oversees operations of Purdue’s 10 College of Technology statewide locations, which serve the educational and workforce training needs for 47 Indiana counties.
Dunlap was assistant professor of industrial technology at Purdue from 1990 to 1994, and also was an associate professor of both industrial technology and curriculum and instruction at Purdue. He was the founding director of the College of Technology’s Weekend Master’s Degree Program, directing the program from 1998 to 2001.
He returned to Purdue after serving as dean of the Kimmel School of Construction Management, Engineering, and Technology at Western Carolina University in Cullowhee, North Carolina.
Jon C. Aull was appointed director of the College of Technology locations at Indianapolis and Lafayette.
Aull oversees operations at the two locations, which serve 10 counties and boast a combined enrollment of nearly 300 students.
Aull most recently was an instructional technologist and director of the Center for Instructional Excellence at Wallace Community College in Dothan, Alabama, where he was responsible for the management of the college’s learning management systems.