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Students in Educational Limbo After Sudden Harrison College Closure

College students in three states and five Indiana communities are scrambling to get their education on track and their money back, NBC affiliate station WTHR reported.

Without warning, Indianapolis-based Harrison College closed campuses in Anderson, Columbus, Evansville, Fort Wayne and Terre Haute, as well as in Ohio and North Carolina.

Answers are hard to come by. No one answered the phone at the downtown Indianapolis campus on Monday. Students, stunned and angry, met with college representatives in search of information and direction.

Nikki Moore left feeling heartbroken. 3 F479233 0 Fa7 4 B5 C A523 C462764 Baf98

“I was lied to by people who promised me a future,” she said. “It was pretty much stripped away from me.”

Heather England was beginning her second semester.

“I’m 38,” England explained. “I just started now going back to school and now I am stuck.”