Trine, HU to start Ft. Wayne classes

FORT WAYNE, Ind. (WANE) - As part of the Parkview Hospital Randallia campus evolves into a life sciences consortium, two of the schools involved announced Monday that they plan to begin classes in August.

The Life Science Education and Research Consortium of Northeast Indiana will be a combined effort involving five partner organizations: Huntington University, Trine University, Fort Wayne Community Schools, Ivy Tech Community College-Northeast and the University of Saint Francis.

While the other partners are anticipating a 2013 launch, Huntington and Trine will begin their first programs in August, according to a news release Trine put out Monday.

Huntington will start its Master of Arts in counseling and its adult bachelor’s degree programs in human resource management and not-for-profit leadership on Aug. 27. The adult RN to BSN degree program will begin Aug. 28. A TESOL/ESL certificate program will launch later this year. By the fall of 2013, the university also hopes to open a master’s and doctoral-level program in occupational therapy.

Trine will offer new programming that affords students opportunities to pursue bachelor’s degrees in healthcare management, emergency management, biomedical engineering and engineering technology and master’s degrees in leadership in biomedical regulatory affairs, leadership in non-profit management and leadership in healthcare systems studies. The university also plans to launch a doctoral program in physical therapy, its first doctorate program, and a biomechanics and movement sciences research center.

The Huntington and Trine programs will be housed in the main hospital building.

“We are pleased to see the aggressive manner with which Huntington and Trine are moving forward with this initiative and to see that classes will begin in August,” said Steven Brody, project coordinator for the consortium.

“We are excited, not only to be a part of the consortium, but to give people opportunities to earn meaningful degrees that will enhance their futures and the economic vitality of the community,” said Trine president Earl D. Brooks II, Ph.D. “Universities play a vital role in training quality professionals who will take leadership roles in the healthcare, biomedical and engineering industries. Their leadership will lead to greater regional industrial diversity, job growth and socioeconomic improvements in the area.”