Page 1 of 2 12 LastLast
Results 1 to 10 of 12

Thread: Goodbye IPFW....Hello PUFW

  1. #1
    Join Date
    Oct 2004
    Posts
    27,256

    Default Goodbye IPFW....Hello PUFW

    IPFW will soon be no more.

    The Purdue Board of Trustees on Friday approved a resolution to change the name of IPFW to Purdue University Fort Wayne (PUFW).
    The naming will take effect with the July 1, 2018 realignment of the university, pending the approval of the state's Higher Learning Commission. According to a press release, the campus will be commonly known as "Purdue Fort Wayne."

    In its meeting Friday at IPFW, Purdue trustees said the name was selected in part after feedback from an online survey conducted in February. The survey suggested two new names for the school, Purdue University Fort Wayne and Purdue University Northeast.
    http://www.news-sentinel.com/news/lo...e&profile=1008
    NDSU to the FBS always. In all ways.

  2. #2
    AKBison's Avatar
    AKBison is offline Senior Member Gets their mail at the West Parking Lot
    Join Date
    Mar 2005
    Posts
    2,327

    Default Re: Goodbye IPFW....Hello PUFW

    Dumb..just let them be Fort Wayne

  3. #3
    LikeMothers's Avatar
    LikeMothers is offline Senior Member Gets their mail at the West Parking Lot
    Join Date
    Dec 2008
    Location
    Hopkins
    Posts
    1,899

    Default Re: Goodbye IPFW....Hello PUFW


  4. #4
    Join Date
    Sep 2007
    Location
    Quahog, RI
    Posts
    18,970

    Default Re: Goodbye IPFW....Hello PUFW

    Good lord.....
    NDSU Athletics: oderint dum metuant


  5. #5
    Join Date
    Sep 2004
    Posts
    29,661

    Smile Re: Goodbye IPFW....Hello PUFW

    Whoever made this marketing decision deserves to be caned, tar and feathered, and then fired. Here's the first thing that comes to mind



    It's about as smart as this

    .


    17X National Champions: 65, 68, 69, 83, 85, 86, 88, 90, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 17, 18, 19, 21

    Join the Green and the Gold Collective to take Bison football to the next level. Starts at $10 a month

    The Green and The Gold Collective is excited to announce our #DriveToFive membership campaign. The goal of this campaign is to get to 500 monthly members. Reaching this goal will help us provide financial support to NDSU student athletes, including every returning member of the football team that saw action on the field last year!

    https://thegreenandthegold.com

  6. #6
    Join Date
    Feb 2008
    Location
    West Fargo
    Posts
    12,632

    Default Re: Goodbye IPFW....Hello PUFW

    Better than PUFU I guess.

    New mascot could have been "The Munching Doritos".

  7. #7
    Join Date
    Sep 2004
    Posts
    29,661

    Default Re: Goodbye IPFW....Hello PUFW

    Quote Originally Posted by IzzyFlexion View Post
    Better than PUFU I guess.

    New mascot could have been "The Munching Doritos".
    Or a mastodon ripping a raunchy fart after eating a crate of Doritos and the crate itself.
    .


    17X National Champions: 65, 68, 69, 83, 85, 86, 88, 90, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 17, 18, 19, 21

    Join the Green and the Gold Collective to take Bison football to the next level. Starts at $10 a month

    The Green and The Gold Collective is excited to announce our #DriveToFive membership campaign. The goal of this campaign is to get to 500 monthly members. Reaching this goal will help us provide financial support to NDSU student athletes, including every returning member of the football team that saw action on the field last year!

    https://thegreenandthegold.com

  8. #8
    Join Date
    Sep 2004
    Posts
    29,661

    Default Re: Goodbye IPFW....Hello PUFW

    Breaking news. PUFW athletics is getting a new statue to proudly display in front of their basketball facility

    .


    17X National Champions: 65, 68, 69, 83, 85, 86, 88, 90, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 17, 18, 19, 21

    Join the Green and the Gold Collective to take Bison football to the next level. Starts at $10 a month

    The Green and The Gold Collective is excited to announce our #DriveToFive membership campaign. The goal of this campaign is to get to 500 monthly members. Reaching this goal will help us provide financial support to NDSU student athletes, including every returning member of the football team that saw action on the field last year!

    https://thegreenandthegold.com

  9. #9
    Join Date
    Jun 2006
    Location
    Wahpeton
    Posts
    14,208

    Default Re: Goodbye IPFW....Hello PUFW

    The situation with the IU/PU campuses is pretty odd. Effectively, Indiana University is UND to Purdue University's NDSU. IU is the liberal arts/health science school and PU is the land grant.

    Both main campuses are also the flagships of their own university systems. In the case of the cites of Indianapolis and Fort Wayne, both university systems set up their own satellite campuses there at different times. It didn't take all that long to realize that having two completely separate, state-run, satellite campuses in the same city was pretty stupid, so the campuses were merged together. That created the Indiana University/Purdue University name.

    In the case of IUPUI, Indiana University runs the campus, but some internal schools are affiliated with Purdue. If you get an engineering or science degree from IUPUI, your diploma says Purdue; most everything else it says Indiana U. IUPUI is easily big enough to be it's own school, but it houses IU's med school, so I doubt IU will give it up without a fight.

    In the case of IPFW, Purdue runs the campus and programs were affiliated with one school or another on a major by major basis. Some of that is now changing, which has led to the new name. Instead of a unified campus, they are going to break off the health science programs and IU will run those directly. Purdue will run the rest(a full university) as it's own campus. So the IPFW name doesn't work anymore. There have been efforts to give the school independence from both systems, but that doesn't look like it's going to happen anytime soon.

    For comparison, SD does a little of the same thing in Sioux Falls. Many of the public SD schools want a presence in SF for obvious reasons, but the state doesn't want a ton of duplication. So they created the University Center campus with SDSU, USD, DSU, BHSU & NSU all offering degrees there(though mostly USD & DSU).

  10. #10
    AKBison's Avatar
    AKBison is offline Senior Member Gets their mail at the West Parking Lot
    Join Date
    Mar 2005
    Posts
    2,327

    Default Re: Goodbye IPFW....Hello PUFW

    Quote Originally Posted by Hammersmith View Post
    The situation with the IU/PU campuses is pretty odd. Effectively, Indiana University is UND to Purdue University's NDSU. IU is the liberal arts/health science school and PU is the land grant.

    Both main campuses are also the flagships of their own university systems. In the case of the cites of Indianapolis and Fort Wayne, both university systems set up their own satellite campuses there at different times. It didn't take all that long to realize that having two completely separate, state-run, satellite campuses in the same city was pretty stupid, so the campuses were merged together. That created the Indiana University/Purdue University name.

    In the case of IUPUI, Indiana University runs the campus, but some internal schools are affiliated with Purdue. If you get an engineering or science degree from IUPUI, your diploma says Purdue; most everything else it says Indiana U. IUPUI is easily big enough to be it's own school, but it houses IU's med school, so I doubt IU will give it up without a fight.

    In the case of IPFW, Purdue runs the campus and programs were affiliated with one school or another on a major by major basis. Some of that is now changing, which has led to the new name. Instead of a unified campus, they are going to break off the health science programs and IU will run those directly. Purdue will run the rest(a full university) as it's own campus. So the IPFW name doesn't work anymore. There have been efforts to give the school independence from both systems, but that doesn't look like it's going to happen anytime soon.

    For comparison, SD does a little of the same thing in Sioux Falls. Many of the public SD schools want a presence in SF for obvious reasons, but the state doesn't want a ton of duplication. So they created the University Center campus with SDSU, USD, DSU, BHSU & NSU all offering degrees there(though mostly USD & DSU).
    Academia types are completely lost in the world of reality and common sense.

    Purdue-Fort Wayne University...athletically known as Fort Wayne
    Indiana University-Indianapolis....athletically known as Indianapolis

Posting Permissions

  • You may not post new threads
  • You may not post replies
  • You may not post attachments
  • You may not edit your posts
  •