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Indiana University—
Purdue University
Fort Wayne
(IPFW)
Motto One university. Two great names.
Established 1964 via the merger of previously established institutions
Type public coeducational
Endowment $25,000,000[1]
Chancellor Michael Wartell
Faculty 380[3][4]
Students 13,675
Location Fort Wayne, Indiana, United States
Campus suburban: 662 acres (2.68 km2)[2] (2.60 km²)
Athletics 16 Division I NCAA teams
Colors blue and white
Nickname Mastodons
Mascot Don the Mastodon
Affiliations Purdue University System
Indiana University System
Website www.ipfw.edu

Indiana University–Purdue University Fort Wayne is the largest university in northeast Indiana, offering nearly 200 IU and Purdue degrees and certificates. Since 1968, IPFW has conferred nearly 8,500 master’s degrees, 25,000 bachelor’s degrees, more than 19,000 associate degrees, and nearly 2,000 certificates. There are more than 43,000 alumni.

During the 2009–10 academic year, more than 13,000 students of diverse ages, races, and nationalities pursued their education on the 682-acre, park-like campus. More than 8,500 students attended full time. The student body included more than 900 African American students, more than 440 Hispanic students, nearly 300 Asian students, and more than 50 American Indian/Alaskan Native students. Students attended the university from 42 states and 67 countries.

IPFW’s standards in teaching and research provide value for students’ career preparation and professional development. The campus has nearly 400 full-time faculty members, with approximately 70 professors, 115 associate processors, and approximately 130 assistant professors. It also has more than 60 instructors and lecturers and about 400 associate faculty. More than 80 percent of the full-time faculty earned the highest degree in their respective field. [1]

Contents

Governance

IPFW is governed in various ways via the Purdue University Board of Trustees, the Indiana University Board of Trustees, and the IPFW Faculty Senate. Purdue serves as the fiscal agent for IPFW’s budget and substantially represents IPFW during budgetary negotiations with the State of Indiana. The Indiana-Purdue Foundation most the portion of the land that constitutes IPFW and has entered into a 99-year lease with the county for additional land for $1. The IPFW Faculty Senate represents the faculty in the university’s shared governance model. The desire was so strong for an expansion of IPFW during the 1980s that the Faculty Senate and Indiana-Purdue Foundation explored the full independence from both Purdue and IU, not entirely unlike the University of Southern Indiana’s independence from Indiana State University in 1985. Since then, relations with Purdue have improved, as has the level of funding from the State of Indiana. Any moves toward independence now are largely a matter for history, as the current path of cooperative autonomy is pursued. [2]

Academics

Either Purdue or IU awards IPFW’s degrees on a program-by-program basis. IPFW’s colleges, schools, and divisions are not each identified specifically as IU units or as Purdue units. Through an agreement between the IU and Purdue trustees, most of IPFW’s university services are administratively operated through Purdue’s processes. This is in contrast to IPFW’s sibling university, Indiana University–Purdue University Indianapolis, where IUPUI is a core campus of the Indiana University System, where IUPUI’s university services are administratively operated through the Indiana University System, and where IUPUI’s schools and academic divisions are each strongly identified by name as IU or Purdue aligned. Some students fulfill their freshman, sophomore, or even junior courses at IPFW before transferring to the main campuses in Bloomington or West Lafayette to complete their degrees in majors not offered at the regional campus. For instance, aeronautical and astronautical engineering is not an offering at IPFW, but many mechanical engineering courses apply through the sophomore year.

Colleges, Schools, and Divisions

IPFW is academically organized into four colleges, two schools, and three divisions [3]:[7]

  • College of Arts and Sciences
    • contains the Departments of . . . Anthropology • Biology • Chemistry • Communication • Communication Sciences and Disorders • English and Linguistics • Geosciences • History • Mathematical Sciences • International Language and Culture Studies • Philosophy • Physics • Political Science • Psychology • Sociology
  • Richard T. Doermer School of Business and Management Sciences
    • contains the Departments of . . . Accounting and Finance • Economics • Management and Marketing
  • School of Education
    • contains the Departments of . . . Educational Studies • Professional Studies
  • College of Engineering, Technology, and Computer Science
    • contains the Departments of . . . Computer and Electrical Engineering Technology & Information Systems and Technology • Computer Science • Engineering • Manufacturing & Construction Engineering Technology & Interior Design • Organizational Leadership and Supervision
  • College of Health and Human Services
    • contains the Departments of . . . Consumer and Family Sciences • Dental Education • Human Services • Nursing
  • College of Visual and Performing Arts
    • contains the Departments of . . . Fine Arts • Music • Theatre • Visual Communication and Design
  • Division of Continuing Studies
  • Division of Labor Studies
  • Division of Public and Environmental Affairs

IPFW also hosts the Indiana University School of Medicine–Fort Wayne and the Fort Wayne Center for Medical Education; both are units of the Indiana University School of Medicine.

Accreditations

IPFW as a whole has been accredited by The Higher Learning Commission of the North Central Association of Colleges and Schools continuously since 1969. The Accreditation Board for Engineering and Technology has continuously accredited IPFW’s following bachelor’s degrees since the date listed: computer engineering, 2004; computer science, 2002; construction technology, 1981; electrical engineering, 1991; electrical engineering technology, 1976; mechanical engineering, 1991; industrial engineering technology, 1981; and mechanical engineering technology, 1975. ABET has continuously accredited IPFW’s following associate degrees since the date listed: architectural technology, 1981; civil engineering technology, 1981; electrical engineering technology, 1976; industrial engineering technology, 1981; and mechanical engineering technology, 1972. The Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business International accredits the bachelor’s and master’s academic programs within IPFW’s Richard T. Doermer School of Business and Management Sciences. The American Chemical Society has approved the Bachelor of Science in Chemistry (B.S.C.) degree conferred through IPFW’s Department of Chemistry. The American Dental Association has accredited IPFW’s dental assisting, dental hygiene, and dental laboratory technology programs. The American Music Therapy Association has approved the music therapy degree conferred through IPFW’s Department of Music. The National Association of Schools of Music has accredited IPFW’s Department of Music. The National Association of Schools of Public Administration and Affairs has accredited IPFW’s master’s degree in public affairs. The National Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education has continuously accredited IPFW’s (and the IU Fort Wayne Extension Center’s) bachelor’s degrees in education since 1954. Also, NCATE has accredited IPFW’s master’s degrees in education [4].

History

History at a glance
IPFW began as co-located extension campuses

via the move to the joint campus in 1964, encompassing the:
• Indiana University Fort Wayne Extension Established 1917
• Purdue University Fort Wayne Extension Established 1947
and expanded through the 1976 merger with:
• Fort Wayne Art Insititute Renamed 1966
Fort Wayne Art School Established 1897
Type private

In 1917, Indiana University started offering courses in downtown Fort Wayne to 142 students in 12 courses. At a separate downtown location, Purdue University permanently established the Purdue University Center in 1941 to provide a site in Fort Wayne for students to begin their undergraduate studies prior to transferring to the West Lafayette main campus to complete their degree [5].

Under the direction of Purdue University President Frederick Hovde, Indiana University President Herman Wells, IU trustee John Hastings, and Purdue trustee Alfred Kettler Sr., the Indiana University and Purdue University extension centers began merging in 1958 via the formation of the Indiana-Purdue Foundation. To serve the extension centers’ now combined mission in Fort Wayne, the Indiana-Purdue Foundation acquired a 99-year lease on existing farmland owned by Allen County—the Indiana county containing Fort Wayne—and land used by the Fort Wayne State School, to form a total of 114 acres at the then-suburban northeast edge of Fort Wayne on the eastern bank of the St. Joseph River. Indiana University–Purdue University Fort Wayne opened on September 17, 1964, following nearly two years of construction that began on October 18, 1962. The first all-inclusive building on campus was known as the Education Building, but it has since been renamed Kettler Hall in honor of the combined university’s chief advocate. Kettler’s vision and passion during the 1950s made IPFW possible. IPFW awarded its first four-year degree in 1968 after awarding two-year degrees through the IU and Purdue Fort Wayne extension centers prior to the formation of the joint IPFW campus [5].

In the spirit of Indiana University’s 1967 acquisition of the Herron School of Art in Indianapolis, which helped form IUPUI two years later, the Indiana General Assembly approved a similar merger of the Fort Wayne Art Institute with IPFW in 1976. The Fort Wayne Art Institute was founded in 1897 as the Fort Wayne Art School. Until 1991 the Fort Wayne Art Institute and resulting academic unit within IPFW maintained a small campus in downtown Fort Wayne. In 1998 this academic unit was renamed the School of Fine and Performing Arts. During the latter 1990s, the School of Fine and Performing Arts and its primary classroom building was renamed the School of Visual and Performing Arts and Visual and Performing Arts Building, respectively. In the mid-2000s, the Purdue University board of trustees granted the school “college” status, and it became the College of Visual and Performing Arts. In 1988, a coalition of the then-Lincoln National Corporation under the direction of Ian Rolland, the M.E. Raker Foundation, the Olive B. Cole Foundation, and the Foellinger Foundation purchased an additional 152 acres on the west bank of the St. Joseph River. This tract was the remaining portion of the McKay family homestead [6].

In 2007, the State of Indiana completed the process of closing the Fort Wayne State Developmental Center. A portion of the grounds had been transferred to IPFW years earlier for construction of the Northeast Indiana Innovation Center. The remaining property and buildings of the 142-acre developmental center was transferred later in 2007, with the land split between IPFW (40 acres) and Ivy Tech Community College–Northeast (45 acres) [6].

Chancellors

At the separate IU and Purdue University extension centers, the most senior executive title was “dean and director.” Frank Schockley (1917), Floyd Neff (1917–1951), and Ralph Broyles (1951–1970) were the dean-directors of the IU Fort Wayne Extension Center. Broyles then served as the only chancellor of the IU regional campus from 1970 to 1974. Conwell Poling (1942–1947), Richard Bateman (1947–1960), Robert Ewigleben (1960–1965), D. Richard Smith (1965–1970), Lawrence Nelson (1970, interim), and Roger Manges (1970–1975) comprised the sequence of dean-directors of the Purdue University Fort Wayne Extension Center. Through an agreement between Purdue University and IU that took effect July 1974, Donald Schwartz was named the single chancellor of all of IPFW. Donald Schwartz (1974–1978), Frances Borkowski (summer 1978, acting), Dwight Henderson (1978–1979, acting), Joseph Giusti (1979–1984), Edward Nicholson, Jr. (1984–1986, acting), Thomas Wallace (1986–1988), Joanne Lantz (1988–1994), and Michael A. Wartell (1994–present) have all led IPFW as the chancellor. This sequence of leadership can be segmented to five major phases to IPFW’s history and progress [6].

  • The phase of separate IU and Purdue—Under Dean-Directors Neff and Broyles, the IU Extension Center expanded into an institution that granted associate degrees and presaged what was to come. Under Broyles’ leadership coupled with Kettler’s vision for a physically collocated IPFW, the IPFW site became a reality during the 1960s. Kettler Hall (then the Education Building), Neff Hall, Helmke Library, and the Walb Student Union were built during this phase. This ended the first phase: the crescendo to the formation of the unified IPFW in 1974.
  • The plateau phase—The expansive, creative vision of the prior phase was largely replaced by a period of adjusting the finer points of what had been previously accomplished. This second phase was a plateau period, due to turnover of multiple chancellors, acting chancellors, and extended chancellor search periods through 1986. The Classroom-Medical Building and Gates Sports Center (then the Multipurpose Building) were built during this phase’s strongest period of leadership: the Giusti administration.
  • The Wallace Administration—The arrival of Thomas Wallace was a burst of energy for IPFW. It began a densely condensed phase of history that defined a refreshed and re-energized vision for IPFW, as it has been fulfilled today—the academic structure of its schools, the school colors, adjustments to the relationship to the parent university systems, and the current building-construction phase—all of which have their origin during the Wallace administration. Wallace permitted the then-popular ideas of how either to make IPFW more autonomous or to pursue complete independence from what was then perceived as a stifling, underfunded relationship with the parent university systems. Plans for privately funded residence halls were drawn up under Wallace despite the vigorous objections from then-Purdue University President Steven C. Beering. Similarly, Wallace did not curtail various explorations of how to make IPFW an independent public university, much like the example set when the Indiana State University campus in Evansville became the University of Southern Indiana in 1985. Although Wallace had created a vision for IPFW, the timing of the relationship with Beering was not the right combination of circumstances to execute that vision. Wallace left IPFW upon being selected as president of Illinois State University in June 1988, where he executed a substantially similar vision as to what he had developed at IPFW. By the close of the Wallace administration, the major accomplishment was the re-establishment of blue and white as IPFW’s official school colors, which is itself a notable act of autonomy because IPFW is the only member of either the Purdue system or the IU system to have neither red nor crimson nor gold nor old gold as one of its school colors. The major accomplishments of the Wallace administration that were finalized shortly after Wallace’s departure were the reorganization of IPFW’s disparate collection of departments and divisions into a cohesive set of schools and the establishment an MBA degree. This demarcates the third phase of IPFW’s history.
  • The Lantz Administration—The fourth phase was a period of renewing strong relationships with the parent university systems through Chancellor Lantz’s efforts. Following the energetic years of the Wallace administration, Purdue was interested in establishing both a better relationship with IPFW as well as a firmer control over IPFW. Lantz negotiated a four-way agreement between Purdue, the IU system, the IPFW faculty, and the Indiana-Purdue Foundation, which controls IPFW’s land. Under this agreement that is subject to quinquennial reviews by the IU system, Purdue is to administer IPFW’s operations, except the medical programs and any IU academic programs. Brokering this agreement and finalizing the Wallace administration’s partially completed academic reorganization were the major accomplishments of the Lantz administration in advancing IPFW, the institution. During the Lantz administration, the Visual Arts Building, Parking Garage 1, Williams Theatre, and the Engineering, Technology, and Computer Science Building (then the Engineering and Technology Building) were constructed.
  • The Wartell Administration—The Lantz administration bonding phase after the Wallace administration inspirational phase made the current fifth phase of evolution possible, where an expansive vision similar to Wallace’s has been combined with a Lantz-like emphasis on mutually beneficial relationships with the parent university systems. The Wartell administration has developed and administered two successful five-year strategic plans. This administration’s most noteworthy accomplishments include expanding the number of degree and certificate options at the undergraduate and graduate levels; overseeing the addition of more than 100 acres to the campus property; making IPFW the first regional campus in Indiana to construct student housing; instituting the Centers of Excellence; securing a number of endowed or named professorships and top-level student scholarships; and arranging numerous public/private partnerships with organizations such as Parkview Health Systems, the Fort Wayne Center for Learning, the Northeast Indiana Innovation Center, and PBS39 WFWA-DT. Under Wartell, IPFW’s longest-serving chancellor, IPFW has commenced on its most aggressive building construction efforts in its history. His leadership is responsible for the construction of Parking Garage 2, the Science Building, the PLEX indoor soccer building and the Hefner Soccer Fields (12 outdoor soccer fields), the Willis Family Bridge between the main campus and the residential campus, IPFW Student Housing of the Waterfield Campus (stages I–III), the Rhinehart Music Center, the Holiday Inn at IPFW and the Coliseum, the Ron Venderly Family Bridge spanning the St. Joseph River between the Main Campus and West Campus, the Medical Education Center, and the forthcoming Student Services Complex. Also under Wartell’s leadership, IPFW’s endowment and level of public and private funding has significantly increased to previously unprecedented levels. The endowment has risen from $3 million to $35 million since he took office, and more than $60 million dollars has been raised from external sources. The Wartell administration also ushered its 16 men’s and women’s sports into NCAA Division I athletic competition, as well as membership in The Summit League conference. Men’s volleyball has demonstrated some notable success at the national level.

Campus

The John and Ruth Rhinehart Music Center, completed in 2007, features the 1,600-seat Auer Performance Hall.

Primary Campus Structures (Acquired or Constructed)

  • Child Care Center (1956)
  • Physical Plant Building (1963)
  • Education Building (Kettler Hall) (1963)
  • Biggs Hall (1965)
  • Craig Hall (1965)
  • Dolnick Center (1965)
  • Dunham Hall Gates Hall (1965)
  • Ginsberg Center (1965)
  • Handley Hall (1965)
  • Neff Hall (1970)
  • Helmke Library (1970)
  • Walb Student Union (1971)
  • Classroom-Medical Building (1981)
  • Gates Sports Center (1981)
  • Life Sciences Resource Center (1986)
  • Warehouse/Printing Services Building (1990)
  • Fine Arts Building (1991)
  • Parking Garage 1 (1991)
  • Williams Theatre (1992)
  • Engineering, Technology, and Computer Science Building (1992)
  • Science Building (1997)
  • Parking Garage 2 (1997)
  • Soccer Support Facility (2002)
  • Willis Family Bridge (2003)
  • Hobson Center (2004)
  • IPFW Student Housing on the Waterfield Campus (Phases I, II, III) (2004–projected completion in 2010)
  • Northeast Indiana Innovation Center (2005)
  • PBS39 WFWA-DT (2005)
  • Rhinehart Music Center (2007)
  • Holiday Inn at IPFW and the Coliseum (2008)
  • Medical Education Center (2009)
  • Ron Venderly Family Bridge (2009)
  • Student Services Complex (projected completion in 2011)

For a virtual campus tour, visit http://virtualtour.ipfw.edu. For a campus map, visit www.ipfw.edu/maps.

Student Housing

Waterfield Student Housing.

Beginning with fall semester 2004, the university introduced a new variety of student housing to northeast Indiana—IPFW Student Housing on the Waterfield Campus. Rather than traditionally cramped dorm rooms, apartment-style housing opened with seven buildings, featuring furnished rooms, full kitchens, private bedrooms, and even free wireless Internet access. Phase II of the student housing initiative continued with two more buildings in August 2007, with total student housing occupancy approaching nearly 750 residents. Phase III of the project, set to open for fall semester 2010, will add 448 beds divided between four new residence buildings, bringing total occupancy to more than 1,200 students when the additions are finished. Another student community center, comparable to the existing Cole Commons, will be added as well as a maintenance facility [7].

Boundaries

As can be seen in from an aerial vantage, IPFW's campus is composed of four parts:

  • the main academic campus, bounded by East Coliseum Boulevard (Indiana State Road 930) to the south, Crescent Avenue (Indiana State Road 37) to the east, Saint Joseph River to the west, and the Canterbury Green Apartment complex and golf course to the north;
  • the residential campus, bounded by Crescent Avenue to the west, Coliseum Boulevard and Trier Road to the south, and Hobson Road to the East;
  • the research-incubator campus, bounded by St. Joe Road to the west, Stellhorn Road (Indiana State Road 37) to the south, Dean Drive to the north, and Sirlin Drive to the east;[1]
  • the former McKay-family farm, the portion of campus on the western bank of the Saint Joseph River, which is bounded by East Coliseum Boulevard to the south, Saint Joseph River to the east, and development to the north and west. The "Plex" indoor soccer facility and the Holiday Inn hotel that are on this portion of the IPFW campus.

Grounds and Landmarks

Architecturally, IPFW buildings generally feature brick in various shades of brown or tan as a variation on Purdue West Lafayette’s red brick. This is in contrast to IPFW’s sibling university, Indiana University–Purdue University Indianapolis, where IUPUI’s buildings generally feature the Indiana limestone that IU Bloomington’s buildings feature. Recent administrative efforts to improve campus accessibility, traffic flow, and grounds beautification have paid off to make IPFW more a campus of pedestrians and less a commuter campus focused on just a few buildings on one end of the campus. With the Willis Family Bridge over Crescent Avenue and the Ron Venderly Family Bridge spanning the St. Joseph River, IPFW’s residential campus, from east to west, has been made easier to navigate. The grounds at IPFW are manicured and landscaped as a pastoral multiple-hundred-acre park due in part to Virginia Ayers, an avid long-time exerciser on campus who willed her estate to IPFW upon her death. The campus landscape features the following highlights [8]:

  • the Geogarden geological tour (northwest of Kettler Hall)
  • the student-designed Set in Stone (art collection between Helmke Library and Parking Garage 1)
  • the life-size bronze Mastodon statue (Alumni Plaza)
  • the student-designed Student Legacy 25th Anniversary Sculpture composed of 25 upright poles of multiple colors, celebrating campus diversity and dedicated during the university’s 25th anniversary (north of the Classroom-Medical Building)
  • Chessboard, a human-sized chess board with giant chess pieces available for students to borrow (west of Walb Student Union)
  • the wooded Aquarius Park, containing the Friends (of IPFW) Pavilion (west of Walb Student Union)
  • the Onwood Memorial Wildflower Garden adjacent to the Friends Pavilion
  • the Millennium Marker that serves as IPFW’s entrance sign along Coliseum Boulevard
  • the Peace Pole Sculpture that is inscribed with translations of “May peace prevail on earth” in a variety of languages (near the Friends Pavilion)
  • Matilda, a mastodon wall mural near the southeast entrance to Gates Sports Center
  • the graduate-designed Lascaux Stacked Plus One sculpture (north of Aquarius Park)
  • the Dirrim Quiet Spot along the eastern bank of the St. Joseph River (west of the Visual Arts Building)
  • the Connie and Dan Dickey Alumni Fountain, a “flat” fountain with jumping jets of water (near Alumni Plaza)
  • the SCAN (Stop Child Abuse Now) Children’s Garden (north of Williams Theatre)

Adjacent to IPFW’s campus are a collection of municipal, county, and state facilities that contribute to IPFW’s mission and function. To the southeast of the IPFW campus across Coliseum Boulevard, on the northwest corner of Johnny Appleseed Park is the Allen County War Memorial Coliseum, which for major indoor intercollegiate athletics events IPFW shares with Fort Wayne’s professional indoor athletic teams. To the south across Coliseum Boulevard, is Fort Wayne’s branch of the Ivy Tech Community College system. The Holiday Inn at IPFW opened on the western side of the St. Joseph River in November 2008. The hotel provides on-site classes for students enrolled in IPFW’s Hospitality Management Program. IPFW is now a 662-acre campus on both sides of the St. Joseph River with numerous educational buildings, student residence halls, a hotel, and various other athletic facilities and parking structures. The campus also hosts the Northeast Indiana Innovation Center and the studios for Fort Wayne’s public television station, PBS39 WFWA-DT. Prior to the construction of residential apartments on the residential campus, and still today, many IPFW students live in the adjacent Canterbury Green Apartments—one of the largest apartment complexes in the United States with a population of nearly 5,000 residents—immediately to the north of the main academic campus. The predecessor to WBNI, northeastern Indiana’s public radio station, was WIPU, whose broadcast tower was located next to Kettler Hall and whose studio was located within Kettler Hall. IPFW also sponsors College Access Television, a channel for college-produced programming. It is one of five cable access channels serving Fort Wayne and Allen County.

Athletics

Mascot and Monikers

IPFW Mastodons logo

In 1968 a large bone was discovered during the installation of a farm pond near Angola, Indiana, about 40 miles north of Fort Wayne. The farmer contacted professors in the Indiana University–Purdue University Fort Wayne geology department, who identified his discovery as the leg bone of a mastodon. Faculty and students from the geology department excavated the greater part of an adult mastodon, including the skull and tusks. The bones were cleaned, preserved, and placed on permanent display at IPFW. In 1970 members of the geology club, led by professors who oversaw the excavation, successfully lobbied the student government committee charged with choosing a name for the university mascot to select the mastodon. And thus, the IPFW Mastodons were born [9]. In addition to serving as a mascot, “mastodon” is used as the athletic moniker for team members and school-spirited references to the student body. The selection of the mastodon as mascot—as well as a tongue-in-cheek borrowing of the term “don” from its academic British English use—lends itself to be a suffix to refer to the athletics teams as well, such as Volleydons for the volleyball teams. In a related reference, the Mastodon STOMP pep band instills school spirit among the fans during home matches and games.

Intercollegiate Athletics

IPFW student-athletes compete as a National Collegiate Athletic Association Division I school in the The Summit League and in the Midwestern Intercollegiate Volleyball Association. The university participates in 16 men’s and women’s sports [10]:

  • men’s baseball
  • men’s basketball
  • men’s cross country
  • men’s golf
  • men’s soccer
  • men’s tennis
  • men’s volleyball
  • women’s basketball
  • women’s cross country
  • women’s golf
  • women’s soccer
  • women’s softball
  • women’s tennis
  • women’s track and field (indoor and outdoor)
  • women’s volleyball

Before joining NCAA Division I athletics, IPFW competed in the Great Lakes Valley Conference in some sports in the NCAA Division II, where in 1993, the men’s basketball team led by brothers Sean and Shane Gibson achieved the ranking of #4 in the country in NCAA Division II competition. Dane Fife was named the IPFW men’s basketball head coach during summer 2005. Fife, who remains the helm, was the youngest NCAA Division I head coach at the time of his appointment, at the age of 26.

IPFW’s men’s volleyball team has gained national exposure repeatedly. Men’s Volleyball Head Coach Arnie Ball, who has led the Volleydons for 30 years beginning with the 2009–10 school year, has amassed more than 460 wins as an NCAA Division I coach. His teams have made six NCAA Final Four appearances, finishing fourth in 1992 and 1994, third in 1991, 1999, and 2006, and second in 2007. Ball is the father of Lloy, a one-time Volleydon, who has achieved Olympic success, having served as the U.S. Olympic volleyball team captain in 1996, 2000, and 2004 and becoming a gold medalist in 2008. Fundraising for an Arnie Ball Endowed Scholarship is continuing, with a goal of providing full endowment support for men’s volleyball scholarships.

IPFW has no football team. Although IPFW has no arena or stadium of its own, the venue for IPFW’s men’s basketball and large-attendance indoor athletic events is the Allen County War Memorial Coliseum. IPFW hosted the 2000 NCAA Men’s Division I volleyball championship matches at Memorial Coliseum. Smaller-scale athletic events are played at the Gates Sports Center on campus.

Community Engagement

The university’s commitment to service makes it an economic, cultural, and societal leader in the region through examples such as fostering small business development, providing enlightenment from internationally known guest speakers, and enabling access to healthcare for underserved populations.

Centers of Excellence

IPFW’s 16 Centers of Excellence were established to satisfy the following university objectives [11]:

  • recognize and advance faculty expertise
  • engage undergraduate and graduate students in experiential learning opportunities through service and research
  • market those capabilities to the public, private, and nonprofit sectors
  • provide opportunities to integrate teaching, research, and service
  • encourage multidisciplinary collaboration
  • facilitate the administration of externally supported projects

Archaeological Survey—The Archaeological Survey serves as an umbrella for cultural resource management and research-based archaeological activities within IPFW’s geographic service area.

Behavioral Health and Family Studies Institute—The Behavioral Health and Family Studies Institute provides professional education, community training, consultation, and research related to behavioral health and family studies topics.

Center for the Built Environment—The Center for the Built Environment promotes sustainable, green building and creates collaborative projects with community partners.

Center for Industrial Innovation and Design—The Center for Industrial Innovation and Design is a cross-disciplinary collaboration between the College of Engineering, Technology and Computer Science; the College of Visual and Performing Arts; and the Northeast Indiana Innovation Center and assists local businesses with their industrial or design challenges.

Center for Reptile and Amphibian Conservation and Management (also Herp Center)—The Center for Reptile and Amphibian Conservation and Management promotes the understanding and conservation of reptiles and amphibians native to the Midwest and beyond through research, education, and outreach.

Center of Excellence in Systems Engineering—The Center of Excellence in Systems Engineering is a national model for industry-university collaboration in systems engineering education and research, serves as a focus for interindustry collaboration, and fosters the development of systems processes through the sponsorship of professional and technical symposia.

Community Research Institute—The Community Research Institute links the academic expertise at IPFW with the needs of the public and nonprofit sectors in northeast Indiana by providing research and analytical support in the areas of socio-economic data, urban planning, municipal finance, public policy, and economic development.

Institute for Decision Sciences and Theory—The Institute for Decision Sciences and Theory promotes research in decision theory, enhances faculty development, expands educational opportunities for IPFW students, attracts support for research by partnering with northeast Indiana industries, and serves the business community of northeast Indiana by supplying expertise for the development of decision-theory applications.

Institute for Holocaust and Genocide Studies—The Institute for Holocaust and Genocide Studies promotes public awareness of the Holocaust and other genocides; encourages and supports scholarship, research, and teaching about the Holocaust and genocide; and promotes public participation in efforts to confront contemporary genocide as it occurs.

Institute for Pension Plan Management—The Institute for Pension Plan Management supports and enhances the efforts of local, regional, and national retirement plan and employee benefits management providers in their efforts to meet the demands placed upon them as professionals and to assist in the preservation of sound quality retirement and benefits plan programs for American workers.

IPFW Human Rights Institute—The IPFW Human Rights Institute underscores the convergence between the American national purpose and respect for individual rights by pursuing projects that develop local applications of universal principles and promoting global awareness of human rights issues.

IPFW Wireless Technology Center—The IPFW Wireless Technology Center researches wireless communication concerns and furthers innovations in wireless communication technology given Fort Wayne’s importance as a hub for tactical wireless systems.

Mike Downs Center for Indiana Politics—The Mike Downs Center for Indiana Politics is the first non-partisan center in Indiana helping people to understand the importance of active participation in political and public processes.

Northeast Indiana Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math Education Resource Center (NISTEM)—The NISTEM Education Resource Center is a partnership with a cadre of regional stakeholders to support and encourage active engagement in science, technology, engineering, and math-related activities and educational pursuits for school-age children.

Scholar-Practitioner Center for the Advancement of Educational Leadership and Learning Organizations—The Scholar-Practitioner Center uses research to guide decision making and problem solving in the context of school corporations by examining policies for effectiveness and by authentically contributing to the educational field-base through scholarship.

Three Rivers Language Center—The Three Rivers Language Center preserves and revives endangered Native American languages of the lower Great Lakes area and elsewhere through documentation and education.

Omnibus Lecture Series

The Omnibus Lecture Series presents diverse ideas through educated, respected, and entertaining speakers to the university community and the residents of northeast Indiana. Omnibus has featured such notable presenters as Henry Winkler "The Fonz," Marlee Matlin, Cheech Marin, Betty Friedan, James Earl Jones, Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Ralph Nader, Joyce Carol Oates, Deepak Chopra, Gail Sheehy, Hal Holbrook, and Sandra Day O’Connor [12].

Northeast Indiana Area Health Education Center

The Northeast Indiana Area Health Education Center is a collaboration among the IPFW College of Health and Human Services, Indiana Area Health Education Center Program office, Indiana University School of Medicine–Fort Wayne, Allen County Health Disparity Coalition, the Dr. Jeff Towles Health Disparities Initiative, and other community healthcare providers and schools to serve 19 counties in northeast and east central Indiana. The center is in the Lafayette Medical Building in the heart of urban Fort Wayne, with room to provide health services, educational programs, and resource materials [14].

Lafayette Street Family Health Clinic

The Lafayette Street Family Health Clinic is a nurse-practitioner clinic that provides high-quality, comprehensive family planning services to low-income women and men, specializing in clients of all cultural and ethnic backgrounds. The clinic offers most birth control methods, pap smears for cervical cancer screening, pregnancy tests, clinical breast exams, emergency contraception, testing and treatment of Sexually Transmitted Infections (STIs), HIV counseling and testing, and education on reproductive health. The clinic also serves as a remote site for IPFW’s Dental Clinic, which offers reduced-cost services [15].

Tapestry: A Day for Women

Tapestry: A Day for Women provides a day of renewal and self-growth each spring through educational, motivational, and inspirational activities at the Allen County War Memorial Coliseum. Tapestry proceeds support the Tapestry Parkview Endowment Fund and the Tapestry gift account and provide scholarships to women studying health sciences at IPFW. Since its beginning in 2002, Tapestry has raised more than $300,000 and awarded $41,000 in scholarships. Tapestry has featured such notable keynote speakers as Dana Reeve, Linda Ellerbee, Patty Duke, Marie Osmond, and Clinton Kelly [13].

IPFW Dental Clinic

The on-campus IPFW Dental Clinic offers complete cleanings, fluoride treatments, and dental sealants, plus full-mouth, bite-wing, and panographic X-rays at a reduced cost for the community [16].

Public/Private Partnerships

Holiday Inn at IPFW and the Coliseum

The Holiday Inn at IPFW blends a tradition of excellence in hospitality with a contemporary design and modern-day amenities. The hotel represents a first-of-its-kind partnership. It operates on property leased from the Indiana-Purdue Foundation, and the establishment serves as a living laboratory for students enrolled in IPFW’s Hospitality Management Program [17].

The Communicator

IPFW’s award-winning student newspaper celebrated its 40th anniversary in 2009 [19].

College Access Television

College Access Television is operated by IPFW and is one of five cable access channels serving Fort Wayne and Allen County. CATV is available on Verizon and Comcast cable systems and serves as the higher education cable access channel and provides opportunities in higher education for area residents [20].

Northeast Indiana Innovation Center

IPFW leases a portion of its Northeast Campus, the corner of St. Joe and Stellhorn roads, to the Northeast Indiana Innovation Center. The Innovation Center leverages university resources to facilitate technology transfer, innovative business development, and economic growth in new ventures [18].

Public Television

IPFW leases a portion of its East Campus, the corner of Coliseum Boulevard and Crescent Avenue, to Fort Wayne’s public television station, PBS39 WFWA-DT [21].

Notable alumni

External links

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