Leaders from Purdue University’s Office of Industry Partnerships, Purdue Global and Vandenberg Space Force Base held a ribbon-cutting ceremony celebrating the establishment of a Purdue Global education office within Vandenberg’s education center. This represents the first time Purdue Global has opened an extension office on a military base, specifically designed to serve military-affiliated students and the surrounding community.
The Purdue Board of Trustees has approved naming the School of Industrial Engineering for alumnus John A. Edwardson in recognition of $25 million in total gift commitments to support students, faculty, and programming. The school will be known as the Edwardson School of Industrial Engineering.