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1969 – present (state system founded 1963)
Founded: Indiana created its vocational-technical system in 1963 as Indiana Vocational Technical College. Fort Wayne instruction began in the summer of 1969 in leased space in the former Concordia Lutheran High School building at 1711 Maumee Ave — the building Concordia had left in 1964 — with two programs: Drafting Technology and Secretarial Sciences.
Course: The system became Ivy Tech State College on June 1, 1995, and Indiana's community college system, Ivy Tech Community College of Indiana, on July 1, 2005.
Fate: Operating. Fort Wayne's campus today is the North Campus at 3800 N. Anthony Blvd — expanded onto the former Fort Wayne Developmental Center land after that institution closed in 2007 — together with the Coliseum Campus.
Sources:
- Inside Ivy Tech, the college's own publication — the 1969 Fort Wayne start at 1711 Maumee Ave; the first two programs.
- Indiana Commission for Higher Education (2015); State Board of Accounts audit — the 1995 and 2005 name and status changes.