The Indiana Commission for higher education held a press conference Tuesday to let the more than 1,000 students and 600 employees know what they can do in the wake of the closure.
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“These are valuable people who have a lot to offer to our communities and we want to help them in every way that we can”, said Dr. David Wright, President of Indiana Wesleyan University. Once there, students will find such programs as criminal justice, electrical engineering technology and information technology compatible with its ITT counterparts, as well as many other programs that can absorb transferable credits.
ITT Technical Institute has shut down all its schools, and the move has left thousands of students unable to move forward in their pursuit of a diploma.
ITT Tech said that the closures were due to unwanted and unwarranted government interference.
A credit transfer is a second option for students.
WGU Indiana Chancellor Allison Barber tells Inside INdiana Business the group is looking to help students “as a community of higher ed leaders”.
Five area colleges are now stepping up.
Now, WATC is offering assistance for students like Wheeler.
To help out members of the armed services that were affected, Lieutenant Governor Eric Holcomb says they called on the Department of Veteran Affairs to reinstate used GI benefits.
BridgeValley Community and Technical College, Mountwest Community and Technical College and Huntington Junior College will be on site to discuss options with students for continuing their education, according to a news release from the system. “Nonetheless, given the hardship that the ITT closing has placed on so many students in Alabama and across the country, we welcome the opportunity to review transcripts and course descriptions on request for any possible transfer of credit to our programs”, the school said.
Six of Indiana’s US representatives filed legislation Tuesday to help veterans regain their GI Bill education benefits after the closure of ITT Technical Institute.
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Thursday, Sept. 15, from 4:30-8 p.m. ET at the Downtown Campus of Jefferson Community College (JCTC), Health Science Hall, 110 W. Chestnut, Louisville.
