Idaho State wants ICOM??

[Mr.Smile12]

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'Everything is on the table:' Idaho State looks at the practicality of buying a medical school • Idaho Capital Sun

Idaho State University is looking at the feasibility of buying a private Meridian medical school: the Idaho College of Osteopathic Medicine.

idahocapitalsun.com

Notable quote:
ICOM is now owned by Rice University, a private university based in Houston, and TPG, an international private equity company.

 

[wysdoc]

After reading this article and seeing that
a) ICOM has not offered itself for sale, and
b) There has been no actual offer to buy it nor funds from Idaho State approved to do so,

This article seems very premature!

 

[TUWEST_509]

ISU and ICOM have pretty close ties. This wouldn’t be a surprise. ISUs president and vice president both sit on ICOMs board of trustees. ICOMs president also has close connections with ISU and seems to be very open to the idea. ICOM being partially owned by a private equity firm makes it very likely that they would be willing to sell for the right price. It all comes down to if Idahos state legislature would be willing to cough up the funds. They just recently signed off on an 8.4 million dollar expansion of ISUs heath sciences program so I guess we’ll see in the coming months if this goes anywhere.

 

[Goro]

If ISU can buy ICOM, it would definitely come off of my Bad Boy list!