PURDUE CENTER FORT WAYNE, INDIANA NEWS
PURDUE MOVES TO THE NEW REGIONAL CAMPUS
Fall classes will start September 17 in the new Indiana-Purdue Regional Campus in Fort Wayne, the new educational building which has been more than six years in the planning and construction stages. Now that it has become a reality, a word should be said about the benefits it will provide to business and industry in the northeastern Indiana region we serve. First of all, it will provide better classroom and laboratory facilities. In addition to conventional classrooms and large lecture halls with built-in audio-visual equipment, the building will offer laboratories for chemistry, physics, biology, the modern languages, drafting, developmental reading, industrial technology and art. In connection with two new programs described elsewhere in the bulletin, there also will be completely new laboratories for computer technology and electronics. The building will make available many other facilities which one would expect to find in a modern educational plant: ample office space for faculty and administrators, faculty research space, a library of 65,000 volumes, meeting rooms, student lounge, and a cafeteria. All of this means that Purdue can provide better services than ever before to young students and adults. If you or your employees wish to take courses, you will have the benefit of the latest and best in classroom, laboratory, and library facilities. Above and beyond conventional educational offerings, we can encourage you to use our meeting rooms and management seminar room for special programs, conferences and workshops and provide the food service you would expect to find on a university campus. Space also will be available for additional offerings of special courses designed to assist the industrial and business community with the continuing education of employees. One point should be clear about the combined operation, however. This unique undertaking of putting the branches of two major universities under one roof does not mean that creation of a single institution. Indiana and Purdue will maintain their separate identities in offering courses and programs. In seeking to fulfill the educational needs of your company, your youngster or yourself, you should contact the officials of the University which offers the type of program appropriate to your needs.
WHAT'S NEW AT PURDUE IN FORT WAYNE
The new building, among its many other benefits, will bring with it an expansion of courses and programs. Perhaps a breakdown into separate topics is in order:
23 New Courses
1. In the lengthy class schedule of daytime and evening classes you will find 23 courses never before offered by the University in Fort Wayne. Of these 18 will be new undergraduate, courses of two types: (a) newly created courses in technologies and other degree programs of the University and (b) courses which are being offered for the first time in Fort Wayne to aid students to complete two full years of work before transferring to the Lafayette Campus to complete the bachelor's degree. The remainder of the courses will be at the graduate level to assist students working toward master's degrees in engineering, English, biological sciences and mathematics.
Practical Industrial Electronics
2. A new certificate program is available in practical industrial electronics. This highly practical approach to electronics consists of four semesters of non-credit evening courses devoted largely to laboratory work with electronics instruments. It is ideal for electricians, maintenance men and others who wish to be prepared for the increased use of electronics in all phases of business and industry. It helps to complete Purdue's range of training in this field from the practical course through electrical engineering technology to the electrical engineering degree. A descriptive folder is available. A special meeting on this program will soon be announced.
Computer Technology
3. A new program--actually two programs--will be offered in computer technology. Although there are certain courses taken by all students in the program, they will have an opportunity to specialize in either business or scientific data processing. The programs have been designed for completion by full-time students in two years but may be taken by adults on a part-time basis in the evening over a longer period of time. Many adults probably will take just a few of the courses to learn the "language" of computers and acquire the skills which will help them on the job. Those who complete either the business or scientific program will be required to take courses in mathematics, general education electives, and several courses in data processing which will prepare them for programming. Through a grant of state, federal and university funds, the regional campus has been able to obtain an IBM 1620 central processing unit, card read punch, card punch, sorter, collater, reproducing punch, and interpreter and an on-line printer. In addition to the non-credit courses in this program leading to a certificate, the regional campus also will offer the beginning course in computer sciences and three courses in data processing in the Industrial Engineering Technology curriculum. Folders on the certificate programs are available, and the credit courses will be found in the class schedule.
Associate Degree in Nursing
4. Looking beyond the immediate educational needs of your company, you should be aware of the new associate degree program in nursing to be offered by Purdue at the new regional campus. The existence of this program has great significance to the community because it provides another local opportunity for the training of nurses to fill an ever-increasing need. Your youngsters and even your wives should be aware of this opportunity to obtain nurses' training in two school years and the intervening summer session. Approved by the Indiana state board, the program prepares students to take the examination to become a registered nurse. The purely academic work will be taken at the regional campus with other university students, and the students will wear uniforms only when they are taking specific nursing courses in the hospitals. Co-operating hospitals in the program will be Parkview Memorial and Lutheran. The new faculty in nursing will be found elsewhere in this in this bulletin.
Four-Year Programs … When?
5. A word is in order about the expansion of programs after the 1963-64 academic year. As you probably have seen in the news, Purdue and the other state supported institutions of higher learning have gone on record as approving the eventual development of four-year bachelor's degree programs at the regional campuses. It is, however, patently impossible for Purdue to duplicate some 100 degree programs away from the Lafayette campus within the immediate future. Some programs will never be offered anywhere but on the Lafayette campus, and others will be established at the regional campuses in a response to increasing numbers--in other words, old-fashioned supply and demand. Right now it is impossible to say which programs in Fort Wayne will be the first to expand into a junior and, finally, a senior year. In the meantime, you, your employees and your family can expect the regional campus to provide two years of work in all the bachelor's degree programs, continuation of six associate degree programs and the addition of several programs of this type, and more certificate programs of a purely vocational nature.
NEW FACULTY AND STAFF
Expecting a substantial increase in enrollment and instituting new academic and vocational programs, Purdue has appointed 16 new faculty and staff members for the new regional campus in Fort Wayne. Some are already on the job, and others will arrive in September, You will want to note the names of two new staff members because you are likely to have occasion to contact them in regard to the training services they can provide. Lee Bushong has joined the Purdue staff as assistant professor of industrial education. Among his other responsibilities, he will assist you with such matters as in-plant training and counseling you and your employees about obtaining the maximum benefits from Purdue's regular courses and programs. Many of you already know Lee because he has been the industrial coordinator for the Fort Wayne Community Schools for the last four years. A graduate of Ball State Teachers College, he received his master's degree from Purdue. Lowell V. LeClair has been named assistant professor of education. In addition to teaching and supervision of practice teaching for elementary teachers, Lowell will be in charge of continuing education for adults. He will be the man to contact about arranging conferences and workshops in the new building, and he and Lee will work together in the development of new non-credit service courses for business and industry. A graduate of the University of Michigan where he also obtained a master's degree, Lowell is a candidate for the doctorate from Michigan State University. Here are the impressive credentials of the other new faculty members at the Purdue regional campus:
MARJORIE E. CRILL, Assistant Professor of Nursing B.S., Indiana, 1963; M.S. Indiana, 1964
H. WILLIAM DAVIES, Assistant Professor of Biological Science B.S., Kansas State Teachers College, 1956; M.S., Kansas State Teachers College, 1958; Doctoral candidate, Michigan State
PATRICIA DEITZ, Assistant Professor of Modern Language Ph.B., Dickinson, 1946; M.A., Ohio State, 1962; M.A., State University of Iowa, 1948; Ph.D., Iowa, 1952
CATHERINE DUBA, Instructor in Modern Language B.A., Aquinas, 1963; M.A., Michigan, 1964; Doctoral candidate, Michigan
JOHN H. HALBERT, Admissions Officer B.A., Michigan, 1951; M.A., Michigan, 1955; Doctoral candidate, Mich. State
RONALD HALSEY, Associate Professor of Electrical Engineering Technology B.S.E.E., Purdue, 1955; M.S.E.E., Purdue, 1958
JURGEN J. LICHTI, Instructor in Physics B.A., Upland, 1950; M.S., Purdue, 1964
BRIAN E. LITTLEFIELD, Assistant Professor of Physics B.S., Maine, University of, 1953; Ph.D., Mass. Inst. of Tech., 1961
DORIS MACK, Assistant Professor of Nursing B.S., Western Reserve, 1943; M.S., Columbia, 1946
DOROTHY A. OECHSLER, Associate Professor of Nursing B.S., Ohio State 1945; B.S., Ohio State, 1946; M.S., Wayne State, 1960
DONALD J. SCHMIDT, Assistant Professor of Mechanical Engineering Technology B.S.M.E., Purdue, 1960; M.S., Purdue, 1961
ROBERT TOLAN, Instructor in Speech B.A., Missouri, 1960; M.A., Bowling Green, 1961; Doctoral candidate, Purdue
ERNEST P. WECKESSER, Assistant Professor of Speech B.S., Bowling Green, 1955; M.A., Bowling Green, 1961; Ph.D., Michigan State, 1963
EDGAR M. WILFORD, Instructor in Mathematics B.A., Harvard, 1952; M.A., University of California, 1963
A NOTE ABOUT ADMISSION AND REGISTRATION THIS FALL
A student who has never attended Purdue must be admitted to the University to take a course for credit. A student who has no present or future degree objective may be admitted as a temporary student to take courses for personal benefit. A student who intends to seek a degree, even though he is attending part time, should be admitted as a regular student, and this requires an application submitted through the high school, transcripts and testing. Early application is advisable. New students should contact Mr. John Halbert, admissions officer, for counseling. Registration will occur in the afternoon and evening of September 14-16. Classes will start September 17, and a late registration fee will be charged that day and during the first week of classes. A former Purdue student who has not enrolled in the spring semester or summer session must fill out a re-entry form prior to registration.
For additional information, you may clip this form and send it to Purdue Center, 220 East Jefferson Street, Fort Wayne, Indiana. ☐ I would like a call from Prof. Lee Bushong regarding: ☐ in-plant training, ☐ a special course in (subject) for my employees at the regional campus or ☐ utilization of regular courses for company training. ☐ I would like a call from Prof. Lowell LeClair regarding arrangements for A conference or workshop at the new regional campus. ☐ Evening schedules … how many? ___ ☐ Day schedules … how many? ___ ☐ Fort Wayne catalog. ☐ Practical Industrial Electronics ☐ Nursing ☐ Business Data Processing ☐ Scientific Data Processing Name ___ Company ___ Street ___ City ___ State ___
