Vincennes University forms 7 colleges

VINCENNES, Ind. – Vincennes University announced the creation of seven colleges to administer its statewide academic programs on Monday.

“This change recognizes our growth through the years and our breadth of enrollment, faculty, and academic programs, as well as the addition of baccalaureate programs to our mission,” VU President Dick Helton said. “The introduction of colleges as part of our academic structure reflects both the evolution of VU in past decades as well as our ambitious plans for continued growth in the future.”

With VU serving 17,000 unduplicated students annually who enroll in more than 200 majors, including baccalaureate programs, Helton said it was time that VU’s organizational structure advances to match the wide-ranging university that has evolved since our founding in 1801.

Although the plan better aligns VU with current academic organizational structures at peer universities, Helton said the change will not increase costs or staffing, allowing VU to remain the most affordable residential university in Indiana.

Under the new structure, VU academic programs will be administered by the College of Extended Studies, College of Health Sciences and Human Performance, College of Humanities, College of Technology, College of Science and Mathematics, College of Social Science and Performing Arts, and College of Business and Convergent Technologies.