Trine and Ivy Tech: the campuses that arrived with their donors

2008–2026

Trine University Fort Wayne: When Trine University announced its Fort Wayne campus in June 2022 — a roughly 110,000-square-foot, 40 million dollar College of Health Professions facility developed in partnership with Parkview Health, opened in the fall of 2024 — the pledges arrived with the announcement: 5 million dollars from the James Foundation, 3 million dollars from the Steel Dynamics Foundation, 3 million dollars from the Surack Family Foundation, and 2.5 million dollars from Trine trustee Larry Reiners and his wife Judy; Keith Busse, Steel Dynamics' co-founder, added a personal commitment of 200,000 dollars that December. More than 20 million dollars was raised toward the project within its first six months — the fastest documented assembly of major gifts for a single Fort Wayne building in this record.

Ivy Tech: Ivy Tech's Fort Wayne campus holds the older landmark: in 2008 the Steel Dynamics Foundation gave 1.2 million dollars — then the largest corporate gift of the campus's capital campaign — and the building it named, the Steel Dynamics Keith E. Busse Technology Center, opened in January 2010 as the first named building on the campus. In October 2026 Google granted 3 million dollars to the Ivy Tech Foundation for fiber-optic technician training at the Fort Wayne, Bloomington and Valparaiso campuses jointly — a statewide gift with Fort Wayne as a named site, printed here with that scope stated. Parkview Health's documented support of the campus includes a 500,000 dollar capital-campaign grant and the 2025 donation of the Francine's Friends mobile mammography coach from the Parkview Packnett Family Cancer Institute, an in-kind gift whose value the record does not state.

Sources:

1. Trine University news releases (November–December 2022) — the Fort Wayne campus pledges and the Busse commitment.
2. The Post & Mail — the Steel Dynamics Foundation's 1.2 million dollar gift to Ivy Tech and the naming of the Busse Technology Center.
3. Ivy Tech Community College announcements (October 2026) — the Google grant; Parkview Health records — the capital grant and the mammography coach donation.