IUPUI master plan to include location for a new School of Social Work building

      Aug. 28, 2008 -  As the Indiana University School of Social Work charts a new strategic plan to guide the school in the coming years, Dean Michael Patchner has announced a site for a new building for the school will be part of a master plan for the IUPUI campus.

     Addressing faculty and staff at a recent strategic planning retreat Aug. 22, Patchner announced “something significant just recently happened this summer.”

      “I am pleased to announce that the master planners are putting a foot-print down – I don’t know where it will be – for a new School of Social Work,” Patchner said. The news drew a cheer from the 90 some people present at the retreat.

     The university began work on master plans for the future of the IUPUI and Bloomington campuses earlier this year.

     Space limitations have forced the School to locate staff and faculty in other buildings on the IUPUI campus as well as in Carmel, Patchner explained.

     There are still major hurdles to face before a new building will become a reality, the dean stressed. “But if we weren’t on this master plan, there would be absolutely no hope,” until another master plan is undertaken years from now, Patchner said.

     “But we crossed that threshold,” the dean said.

Dean Micahel Patchner at the strategic planning retreat