The IUP Alumni Association’s Board of Directors has authorized a donation to help the university with its proposed college of osteopathic medicine.
(IUP Alumni Board of Directors. Photo provided by IUP)
The $500,000 donation will go towards the project to make the osteopathic medicine school a reality in Indiana. If it opens, it will become the fourth college of its kind in Pennsylvania and the first at a public university. Alumni Association Board President Leslie Purser said in a statement that not only will the school address the urgent need for rural health care in Pennsylvania and in the United States, it will “reinforce IUP’s reputation for academic excellence, and its role in educating leaders for the commonwealth, the nation and the world.”
IUP’s Council of Trustees endorsed the exploration of the possibility of adding the college. Some of the factors in the decision included the critical need for rural health care and increasing the number of trained physicians.
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