Indiana Looks To Lure Adults Back To College

INDIANAPOLIS (AP) — Indiana's Commission for Higher Education is working to create a database on former college students who never graduated in hopes of finding ways to get them back in school.

Officials say Indiana has some 737,000 adults with some college, but no degree. The Indianapolis Star reports the state commission is gathering information such as how many college credits those people have earned and how financial aid eligibility they have left.

The commission's plan is to contact those adults by January 2016 and to eventually have 200,000 of them earn degrees.

The Indiana-Purdue Fort Wayne campus tried to encourage such students to return by offering half-off tuition for this semester to about 3,000 people. IPFW says about 100 students enrolled with the comeback program.