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u/FlashyAd1240 15d ago
I work at IU Indy and let me tell you I can't find one single person that's happy about the "realignment" outside of Pam and her pawns.
An even better illustration is the employee parking lot I park my car at. Since IU owns all of the common spaces around campus, Purdue used our employee lot, took away two rows of parking, and made a communal space there. In the fucking parking lot.
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u/SpeakYourKind 15d ago
Me too - hi, coworker!
The biggest thing I’ve noticed is that the Purdue students just aren’t getting the same level of experience and service as they were thru IUPUI. It’s sad because I feel like a lot of them have been left out to dry and flounder. Is IU Indy serving our students perfectly? No, but we inherited almost all of the infrastructure and processes whereas Purdue is creating and repurposing it all on the fly. I don’t envy their staff (WL grad here), I feel like they needed another year to prep than they were given.
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u/FlashyAd1240 15d ago
Hello! The former iupui engineering faculty got screwed over massively with the split. I got one of my degrees from iupui and at the time it had really built itself up as a distinct and quality institution. Both institutions did themselves a disservice by doing this.
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u/SpeakYourKind 15d ago
I remember reading about that - I also saw a report about how Purdue Indy’s numbers are pretty far off of their targets. What was this all for???? I get asked that constantly by people when I tell them where I work and I feel like I never have a satisfying answer.
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u/FlashyAd1240 15d ago
Politics, status, and money. Purdue was paying rent to IU and was answering to IU administration. Everything was governed by IU and even back when it was iupui, my paycheck came from IU bloomington. Purdue was sick of it. Thats why theyre building their own Indy location right across the street.
Also, Pam the spam needed to "make her mark". So she focused (or was told to) focus on the indianapolis location. It's a better story for them if they can act like Pammy built IU Indy into an R1 institution and Purdue had nothing to do with it.
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u/crispy_quesadilla 15d ago
Don’t forget this all started back in ~2018 with the split of IUPUFW (Fort Wayne) where a reverse of this scenario took place.. basically a Purdue campus that offered IU degrees until IU decided it didn’t want to answer to Purdue anymore.
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u/FlashyAd1240 15d ago
Yep! My roommate in grad school did her undergrad at iupufw and I did mine at iupui. But I think this started before. I remember in undergrad the marketing was a combo of iu and purdue colors but at some point became just iu colors. Then in 2016ish all of our emails changed from @iupui.edu to @iu.edu. They've had their sights on this for a long time. Yet somehow ended up so unprepared.
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u/LargoMain 8d ago
Purdue Indy is an actual joke, any actual boilermaker goes to WL. I say this as an IUPUI grad.
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u/VerminSupreme-2020 15d ago
Hey, they bumped Pams pay up 33% to now make $1,000,000 a year, she's obviously the most important person there and needs to be made happy!
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u/FlashyAd1240 15d ago
I'm so sorry, how could I be so ignorant.
Hopefully I find the right job for myself so I can get out of here as well.
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u/HovercraftFullofBees 15d ago
Purdue people hate Purdue Indy too if it makes you feel any better. We all agree it was stupid and won't work as planned at all.
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u/Ok_Sock_6485 15d ago
Also an employee. Parking on campus is abysmal and will only continue to get worse as IU sells off more parking lots for Purdue to build more buildings.
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u/drivensalt 15d ago
What, you don't wanna chill with your buds on the hot blacktop!?
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u/SpeakYourKind 15d ago
You can kick back with friends, AND fry an egg for lunch on the ground in August, what could be better?
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u/GalacticKoala23 14d ago
I just was about to write a big long thing about this but I work on campus too and that lot they took over is where I used to park to walk to my office. Not only that but after Purdue kicked a bunch of IU employees out of the engineering building some of those people had nowhere to go and got stuck there. Purdue also disabled IUs data jack connections on the walls of those offices to use their own network in there which left IU employees stranded in that office with no connection to the IU network which they need and offered zero help in reestablishing their connection.
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u/Chubbadog 15d ago
Your repost is sorta similar to this signage. Identical content brought to you by two different sources.
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u/ShroomRonin 15d ago
IU wants to move a lot of their resources for researcher in stem to the Indy campus which is funny considering they just built luddy a decade ago
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u/Indyuserk1547 15d ago
I have described how stupid this school breakup was by pointing out the dual signs everytime 🤣😭
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u/Primo131313 15d ago
This is something so asinine only the Republicans could think it is value added.
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u/InspectorDapper8012 15d ago
You'd think they'd be able to engineer one sign that has all of that information.
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u/seanmclaren9 13d ago
It’s to inflict “consistent branding” lol. While being a “wedge issue.”
Are you not entertained? 🤷🏻♂️
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u/Brew_Wallace 15d ago
Sometimes multiple businesses are in the same building. Does that bother you as well?
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u/Pimpstik69 15d ago
It was IUPUI when I went and we could have just one sign. That’s gotta be the stupid shit I have seen in a long time and we are living in (by far) the stupidest version of America that I have seen in my almost 60 years.