Indiana University Southeast
public regional campus of Indiana University
Indiana University Southeast (locally known as IU Southeast or IUS) is a public university in New Albany, Indiana. It is a regional campus of Indiana University.
History
The Indiana University Falls City Area Center was established by Floyd McMurray in 1941 as an extension center of Indiana University in New Albany, Indiana, and Jeffersonville, Indiana. Classes were initially held in classrooms at New Albany High School and Hazelwood Junior High School in New Albany, and at Jeffersonville High School in Jeffersonville. In 1945, IU Southeast moved into its own building in Jeffersonville, named the Indiana University Jeffersonville Extension Center.
As an extension center, IU Southeast's purpose was to permit freshmen and sophomore students to take classes near their residence before transferring to the Indiana University Bloomington main campus. The Indiana University Jeffersonville Extension Center was renamed Indiana University Southeast during 1968. Also, IU Southeast granted its first degrees in 1968.
IU Southeast moved to its current 177-acre (0.72 km2) campus in New Albany, Indiana during 1973.
Campus
IU Southeast is located 15 minutes north of downtown Louisville, Kentucky, in suburban New Albany, Indiana, at the edge of southern Indiana's picturesque "knobs," which is a region of rolling hills that run parallel to the Ohio River.
This brief starts where responsible research should: with the source description of “Indiana University Southeast” as public regional campus of Indiana University. Everything that follows is an evidence route, not borrowed authority.
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The subject matters to the history & society register because the source frames it as public regional campus of Indiana University. Its deeper value depends on whether names, dates, institutions and citations support that framing.
Contemporary correspondence, administrative files and participant testimony can test how later narratives organized the event or institution. The source revision retrieved here is dated Jun 15, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q6023656. VIAF identifies the subject as 139556231. The Library of Congress control number is n80126364. Authority coordinates are 38.345, -85.819. 3 of 5 selected statements include explicit references; 1 carry qualifiers and 0 use preferred rank. The first chronological checks are 1941, 1945, 1968 and 1973.
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