Fort Wayne Indiana-Purdue campus facing cuts after enrollment decline

A report released this month projects that IPFW could see a $2 million to $3 million revenue shortfall next year on its $110 million operating budget. That follows a January recommendation that the joint campus be split into separate schools and comes as enrollment has declined 11 percent since 2011 to 12,719 students last fall.

The report compiled by an IPFW task force proposes restructuring 13 academic departments. Nine of those are in the College of Arts and Sciences — anthropology, geosciences, history, international languages, philosophy, physics, political science, sociology and women’s studies, The (Fort Wayne) Journal Gazette reported.

The task force recommended that IPFW focus on health science and engineering programs.