Purdue raising S. Indiana profile

They see 40 acres bulldozed and a big building go up. They notice its sign. They assume Purdue University has come to Southern Indiana. Eager to be Boilermakers, they call Andy Schaffer. Then Schaffer must point out, yet again: This exciting new presence is not everything that everyone could want. This is not Purdue University Southeast, as Schaffer puts it. This is not Purdue's local debut. It is the new Purdue University College of Technology, located on Charlestown Road in New Albany. But the Purdue program actually began long before, in the little-known reaches of its local collegiate arch-rival, Indiana University Southeast. The new campus will greatly help Purdue do and mean more for our area. "It will make a big statement in Southern Indiana," said Jane Milton, president of the Falls Cities Purdue alumni club. The... [read full story]