TERRE HAUTE — As Ivy Tech Community College considers closing about 20 of its leased sites around the state, the Wabash Valley regional chancellor said she hopes to learn more when the state board meets today and Thursday.
Ivy Tech-Wabash Valley region leases facilities in Linton, Rockville and Sullivan as well as the Martin Luther King Center housed at the Meadows shopping center, said Ann Valentine, Ivy Tech-Wabash Valley chancellor.
“I don’t know which of those in our region may or may not be under consideration” for closure, she said Tuesday.
Valentine said she hopes to know more after the state board meetings. “We don’t know if there will be a decision made this week or just deliberations” about potential closures, she said.
The decision would be made at the state level. Main campuses, such as the Wabash Valley main campus off U.S. 41 in Vigo County, “are not under consideration,” she said.
Jeff Fanter, Ivy Tech central office vice president for communications, stated in an email that the community college is “reviewing all leased facilities. It will be some time before any decisions are made.”
This summer, Ivy Tech will do a cost-benefit analysis of about 50 of its 72 locations around the state. About 20 could be closed, Jeff Terp, Ivy Tech senior vice president of engagement and institutional efficiency, has stated.
The reason, according to Ivy Tech, is that it has a funding shortfall of $68 million, and it must take steps to address it. Among those measures are increasing tuition by $20 per credit hour over the next two years and closing some of its sites.
Officials say that after Ivy Tech became a community college in 2005, it experienced dramatic increases in enrollment, but state funding did not keep pace with that growth.
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