At Thursday’s IUP Council of Trustees meeting, IUP President Dr. Michael Driscoll talked about enrollment numbers for the next school year.
It was reported in the enrollment management committee that new undergraduate student admission is showing an increase for the fall 2023 semester. So far, the university has received close to 12% more admission applications for first-time undergraduate students, the number of students admitted is 9% higher than last year at this time, and students have submitted nearly 21% more deposits than last year.
Driscoll talked about what he felt was the reason for this increase.
In other business, the trustees approved conferring an honorary degree on Bonnie Anderson. She graduated from IUP in 1980 with a bachelor’s degree in medical technology, and worked in hospital laboratories for four years before being recruited into diagnostic equipment sales. She spent 18 years in an executive leadership position at Beckman Coulter, she managed her own start-up molecular diagnostics company, Immunomics Operations. She talked about how she felt being given this honorary degree.
This marks the first honorary degree conferred since 2016, when IUP honored the then-secretary of the State Department of Corrections John Whetzel.
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