ANDERSON Ivy Tech Community College plans to build a new Central Indiana campus along I-69 in Anderson.

School and city officials announced this week that the $20 million campus would be built on a 40-acre strip of farmland near the exit for Ind. 9 into the city.

Ivy Tech-Anderson Vice Chancellor James Willey said construction on the 85,000-square-foot campus could begin in the spring. School officials say enrollment at the Anderson campus is up 23 percent in the past five years, to 2,600.

Willey says the current Ivy Tech campus in Anderson will remain in use, with its emphasis shifting to health services programs. The city is buying the land for the new campus and giving it to Ivy Tech.

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