Ivy Tech growth hurt PUC center - Post-Tribune.
PUC is Purdue University Calumet, part of Purdue University. By the way, there is another comedy going on here: the Hoosier State Legislature is not asking any questions about the wasted money. Can anyone believe this? And they put Tom Philpot away for $20,000. This, "the Academic Leaning Center", was and continues to consume millions of dollars.
Ivy Tech had nothing to do with the lack of enrollment at the ALC (Academic Leaning Center) in Meriville, Indiana. There never was any demand for it. Chancellor Howard Cohen was told this and knew it right away; but, it was not his money. If you look at each year, PUC departments were never allowed to cancel classes at the ALC or even to not offer classes there. The essentially plan by the administration of Chancellor Cohen was to inflate enrollment so that Hoosier students had nowhere else to go. This could only work so long.
This inflation of enrollment continued until this past spring 2013 semester. That is the big joke. All of PUC's administrators knew about it, especially the major incompetent Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs Ralph Rogers. The joke is that these people are given billions of $ and no one ever checks where it goes.
Where is the Indiana House Ways and Means Committee or the Indiana Senate Appropriation Committee? Where is Teresa Lubbers and her Indiana Commission on Higher Education? Where is Senator Ed Charbonneau?
The other big joke is that Purdue's new president, Mitch Daniels, according to the article, does not care. He has his billions of dollars to spend on friends, family, and acquaintances.
The biggest joke is on people like me who believed in the fairness of the game and in the Republican parties support of equal rights. If the money on the ALC was spent on the huge number of Hispanic, African-American, and none traditional students, think about how much better Indiana would be today.
By the way the ALC is up for a fire sale. Any takers?