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1930 – present
Founded: June 1930, by John A. Kalbfleisch — an educator at International Business College from 1906 to 1927 and its president in his last two years there. The college was incorporated January 10, 1931, and classes began in 1931 in the 200 block of East Washington Boulevard, in a former mortuary. First-year enrollment is given as 179 by the college's magazine and as 8 by one directory account; the two figures stand as reported.
Course: Kalbfleisch's bachelor's degrees in electrical, structural, civil and radio engineering could be completed in 24 months. He died February 9, 1936, aged 55. The college rechartered as a nonprofit in August 1948, bought Concordia College's 20-acre campus (dated 1953 by the college — see the Concordia College entry for the differing 1958 account), offered four-year degrees from 1960, held Higher Learning Commission accreditation from 1962, and took the name Indiana Institute of Technology in 1963. A later law school closed June 30, 2017.
Fate: Operating, on the old Concordia campus in the city's near east side.
Sources:
- Indiana Tech Magazine (Summer 2020) — Kalbfleisch; the 1930 founding; 179 first-year students; the campus purchase.
- Indiana Institute of Technology (Wikipedia) — the 1931 incorporation; nonprofit recharter, 1948; the 1963 name; the law school closing, 2017.