Ivy Tech Bloomington guest student numbers
Fall 2013: 496
Fall 2014: 733
Percent change: 48%
Spring 2014: 923
Spring 2015: 1,156
Percent change: 25%
Summer 2013: 1,394
Summer 2014: 1,732
Percent change: 24%
Source: Sam DeWeese, vice chancellor, Ivy Tech Bloomington
Ivy Tech Bloomington’s efforts to recruit guest students have been paying off. Not only have their numbers been increasing during the past few years, this semester, Bloomington has more than any other campus.
Ten days into the spring 2015 semester, 2,528 guest students were enrolled across all of the community college’s 35 campuses. More than 1,000 of those were enrolled at the Bloomington campus.
“I certainly think it’s our proximity to Indiana University,” said Sam DeWeese, vice chancellor for the Bloomington campus.
Guest students are people who take classes at Ivy Tech but are not pursuing a degree there. In many cases, they are students who are enrolled at a four-year institution, but take a class or two during their summer break to help them graduate on time.
It would make sense, then, that the Ivy Tech campuses near the state’s large, four-year institutions would have the most guest students. That’s true for this semester, but the Bloomington campus has more than twice the number of guest students as the Indianapolis and Lafayette campuses.
The Lafayette campus, which is near Purdue University, has the second-largest number of guest students for the spring semester with 415. The Indianapolis campus, which is near Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis, had 414. DeWeese was at a loss to explain why the Bloomington campus had so many more guest students.
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