So, BSU Is Not Suitable for a Med School or a Law School...

BSU is the only Indiana campus that had a full service hospital on it, other than IUPUI, yet, BSU was never granted a medical school, nor did the BOT strive for one, even though we had the existing infrastructure to support it. Ohio has eight medical schools, Illinois has eight, and Michigan has seven. Indiana has one, two if you count the newly opened Marian University School of Osteopathy (a different medical practice). Why did Indiana funnel all education of medical professionals through IU?

Indiana only has three law schools, four if you count IU-Bloomington and IU-Indy as separate programs (share a core curriculum). Ohio has nine law schools, Illinois has nine law schools and Michigan has five law schools. Once again, if you have to pursue a JD at a public school in Indiana, the only option is IU. Why funnel all aspiring lawyers through one university?

My point is, BSU was awarded the public architecture program. The only other Indiana program is Notre Dame, a salty endeavor for a student. BSU was awarded the program to help diversify the campus from a teachers college. Why not medicine (we have a hospital)? Why not law?

The cost to BSU is many, many alumni that make a considerably large income in either of these professions that potentially would, or could, donate to this university. The one curricular program that we had an exclusive on, has now been granted to the university that has an exclusive on two lucrative curricular programs that could have also benefited Ball State University.

Our lobbyists in the State House must really suck.

Exactly. BSU had the infrastructure (Ball Memorial) to create a medical school. The state could have generated more medical professionals by creating a program in Muncie, but it appears that rather than leverage that resource, the legislature kept a single school, and approved IU Health System to acquire health systems to provide multiple sites for a single state program, one that only benefits one higher ed institution in the state.

Total BS, and we've done nothing to protect our one professional program. So, Indiana only needs one public law school, but two public architecture schools? That makes sense?

Ohh, and to make things feel even worse the American Bar Association granted Indiana Institute of Technology (private) in Fort Wayne, accreditation for a law school...


law.indianatech.edu/about/accreditation/

law.indianatech.edu/about/

I don't know about med schools but I do know there are way too many law schools right now.

I lobbied the Indiana Legislature for decades on behalf of the integrated steel industry in NW Indiana and saw it all unfold. It is a long story and it really pissed me off but to sum it all up it was ABSOLUTELY reflective of the lobbying power of Indiana University!

It was also reflective of the higher number of IU grads or friends of the university serving as legislators or lobbyists.[

This is even all tied to the creation of the higher education board in the first place.
It is a core part of why I dislike IU and loved beating them in FB.

Let me also say that IU and Purdue would be real happy if BSU never existed or went away.

It is also exactly correct that over the long term the higher income grads do make a profound impact relative to financial support.

The two Big 10 institutions truly view themselves in a class of their own. Did you ever wonder how IUPUI and IUPUFW really came about?

Like major college athletic conference realignment - it is ALL ABOUT THE MONEY!

When hell freezes over.  Indiana isn't very interested in funding education, IU likes its stranglehold on Med schools, and doctors, health care industry both really don't want more doctors. 

Maybe Physician Assistants?