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Ball State University creates a College of Health
Ball State University is creating a new College of Health that will move into a new building on its Muncie campus.
Ball State’s Board of Trustees on Wednesday approved the College of Health by a unanimous vote.
Current university programs that will relocate to the new college include nursing, social work, speech pathology and audiology, kinesiology, clinical psychology, and nutrition and dietetics.
Mitch Whaley is the dean of the College of Applied Sciences and Technology. He says the new college is in line with what other schools are doing around the state and the country.
Whaley says a study of Indiana’s health occupations show a growth of about 25 percent over the next several years.
Ball State President Paul Ferguson says the College of Health will inhabit a new $62.5 million Health Professions building already slated to be built on campus.
Ball State last created a new college in 1996 when it approved the College of Communications, Information, and Media.
University officials say the new health college will be ready to be officially inaugurated in the fall of 2016.
