The college’s Davis-Reid Alumni Gym and its fitness center will be receiving renovations and upgrades to modernize the facilities.

The new library is being built in response to needing to convert the old library into student housing to support continued enrollment growth.

The school plans to directly allocate $300,000 of the grant award to help fund the academic journeys of students who are pursuing STEM fields.

The initiative seeks to improve childcare and the quality of life for children and families in the region. Joining Indiana State University in the initiative are Ivy Tech Terre Haute and Lilly Endowment’s College and Community Collaboration.

Funding for the renovations came last year from a Title V Developing Hispanic Serving Institutions grant from the U.S. Department of Education.

Rolled out in 2022, the first iteration of the schools’ agreement was limited to only students pursuing engineering. It now encompasses almost all academic programs with a few exceptions.

The school added 4,000 square feet of training space after receiving a grant from Indiana University Health in the amount of $1.2 million.

The $50,000 Sparking Early Literacy Growth grant will give the June Harless Center the opportunity to collaborate with the Marshall University Communications Disorders program to study the benefits of having both a teacher and a speech-language pathologist in pre-K classrooms.

The agreement will allow students who earn an associate degree in nursing from Laurel College to enter into the RN to Master of Science in Nursing program at West Virginia Wesleyan College.

The new scholarship will give students who earned an associate degree from the Kentucky Community and Technical College System and transfer students the ability to earn a bachelor degree from Kentucky State University for free.