Purdue’s admissions deadline may be pushed back

As the academic semester winds down for the quiet period next week, the University Senate held its last meeting of the academic year Monday afternoon to discuss how FAFSA errors are affecting Purdue admissions.
While senators look back on what they accomplished this year, Provost Patrick Wolfe said he looks to the recruiting the next generation of Boilermakers. But with FAFSA errors affecting the country, the provost said it’s likely the deadline for students to accept their enrollment back even further than other schools around the country.
“You probably have read in the newspapers that the FAFSA … has been subject to continuing errors and delays and that has caused every university across the country to push back their admissions deadline,” Wolfe said.
According to NerdWallet, “The U.S. Education Department miscalculated financial need in almost 15% of the 1.5 million Free Application for Federal Student Aid (FAFSA) forms it processed before March 21.”
Wolfe said universities typically have the deadline on May 1, but most will be pushed back to May 15. However, according to Wolfe, Purdue may push back all the way to June 1.
SWANA
In a vote of 60 to four, the University Senate passed a resolution in support of a Southwest Asian and North African Cultural Center.
The motion didn’t begin in the University Senate though, it began with the combined work to produce a joint resolution from Purdue Student Government and the Purdue Graduate Student Government, a resolution that were passed nearly a year ago on Mar. 23, 2023.
“Since we met a month ago, the United States government has now recognized a new category in the ongoing census efforts (to recognize) a new group called MENA for Middle Eastern and North African (people),” Sen. Brian Dilkes said in the meeting. “It’s good to see our students ahead of the U.S. government in terms of how to represent and forward our students' excellence and identities.”
The university resolution calls for the use of a separate category in demographic questionnaires for SWANA students, who are typically directed to fill in the white or Caucasian classification box, according to the University Senate resolution.
Having moved through PSG, PGSG and the University Senate, it now falls onto the board of trustees to approve the creation of the cultural center.
PL 133 implementation at Purdue
In February, the Exponent reported the University Senate condemned Indiana Senate Bill 202 in a vote 81-5. After SB 202 was passed in the Indiana House of Representatives and later signed into law in March, Purdue has been forced to implement the bill, which is now Public Law 113.
Prior to the passing of the law, a question was formulated to senators asking “Should S.B. 202 be signed into law, what concrete recommendations do you and your constituents have for implementation at Purdue University?”
Incoming Senate Chair Susan South went over several of the recommendations, some calling for clear definitions of intellectual diversity, a highly scrutinized term in the S.B. 202.
Intellectual diversity, as was defined in the bill, is “multiple, divergent and varied scholarly perspectives on an extensive range of public policy issues.”
Other recommendations included a formal document to “deem campus members have not met the diversity policies of the university,” and making sure student and employee complaints are vetted by faculty members in a manner similar to the grade appeals process.
“I would like the Board to acknowledge that no one will be called into question for teaching accepted science and mathematics,” one suggestion read. “Period.”
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