EVANSVILLE - Indiana House Speaker Brian Bosma on Tuesday offered the most detailed explanation to date on why Ivy Tech Community College Southwest was excluded from the state’s appropriation on the new multi-institution medical campus planned for Downtown Evansville.
The General Assembly approved $25.2 million for programs to be offered at the campus by the Indiana University School of Medicine-Evansville and the University of Southern Indiana. The University of Evansville, a private institution, is funding programs on its own.
But Ivy Tech’s request for $22.9 million was snubbed by legislators. Bosma, who was the guest at Tuesday’s Noon Rotary luncheon, was asked point-blank: Why?
“I think there was concern first of all expressed about investment in another immediate building,” Bosma told the club, referring to Ivy Tech’s First Avenue campus. That facility was expanded and renovated in 2006 for $38.2 million.
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