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| • University Place Conference Center and Hotel at IUPUI has won a 2002 Pinnacle Award for excellence from Successful Meetings, the nation’s oldest publication in the meeting field. University Place was the only conference center in Indiana to receive the award, and the center was featured in the magazine’s 18th annual Pinnacle Awards Directory last month. Each year, 160,000 people attend 1,600 meetings at the facility. http://www.universityplace.iupui.edu
• New Albany, home of IU Southeast, was the largest city in Indiana when Indianapolis was still a swampland and forest. Indiana: A Guide to the Hoosier State describes the city as resembling “a huge spider web with sections angling off in every direction.” The city was named for the capital of New York, the home state of New Albany’s early investors, Joel, Nathaniel and Abner Scribner
• IU entered into an agreement with Richmond’s Earlham College to give area adults an opportunity to pursue college-level study. The agreement was altered in 1967 when IU, Purdue, Ball State and Earlham jointly offered classes in Richmond. Two years later, citizens raised $1 million for an instructional facility and, in 1970, requested IU to take responsibility for the campus. The IU Board of Trustees voted on July 1, 1971, to make the affiliation official. IU East was authorized to grant four-year degrees in 1986.
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