Several public and private Indiana colleges are following the example set by Purdue University, which used surveys to learn how experiences in school have affected the quality of graduates’ lives today.
Purdue University is taking the next step toward a controversial program in which students could get financial help for school from so-called investors in exchange for some of their future earnings.
Indiana educators struggling over an impending change in requirements for high school teachers of dual-credit classes may be getting an extension as long as five years.
Students will choose between undergraduate degrees in industrial engineering and software engineering, specialties that are not as widely available in central Indiana.
The Indianapolis-based health insurer announced Tuesday that it will pay upfront the $2,500 annual cost of a business or health care degree from College for America, which provides online programs for adults.
Indiana’s public colleges and universities, spurred by pressure from state lawmakers, are pumping out more graduates than ever. But in spite of a 20-percent increase in degrees granted since 2010, the education level of Indiana’s younger adults has barely budged, for reasons that aren’t clear.
The statewide effort is designed to push more Indiana students to graduate from college on time by completing at least 15 credits each semester.
The shoppers, who were hired by the Carmel-based operator of for-profit colleges, generated the bulk of the material cited in the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau’s complaint.
State leaders want twice as many Hoosiers earning post-high-school credentials by 2025 as there are today. And the only realistic way for the state to get there is for Indianapolis-based Ivy Tech to double its enrollment and double its graduation rates.
Ivy Tech Community College is moving to an automated system to advise students about what classes they need each semester and eliminating their ability to enroll as “undecided.”
The Indianapolis-based Lumina Foundation’s overall goal is to raise the percentage of Americans with college degrees from 38 percent to 60 percent by 2025.
The Lilly Endowment will give nearly $63 million in grants to 39 Indiana colleges and universities to boost job prospects for their graduates, pushing the endowment’s anti-brain-drain campaign to $120 million over the past decade.
Big budgets used to rule in college rankings. But that could be changing. A new report from the Indiana Commission for Higher Education is the latest effort among several nationally to score universities on their bang for the buck.
Purdue finished second in international enrollment among public universities, with 9,509 students in the 2012-13 academic year. IU finished 13th, with 6,547.
Indiana University’s Kelley School of Business is expanding its certificate programs for executives, combining noncredit webinars, for-credit certificates, and graduate degrees into a single educational program, mostly for corporate clients.
Graduating college in four years isn’t always the ideal scenario.
The $5 million donation from the family of late Indianapolis businessman James F. DeVoe will help found a new school of business on the university’s Marion campus.
Thousands of Indiana’s rank-and-file factory workers have seen their earnings lose ground to that of white-collar workers. The gap has grown even as manufacturers expect their assembly-line workers to have more skills and more advanced education.
An Indiana University study has found that what people studied in college had a direct effect on their chances of employment during the Great Recession.
Indianapolis-based Lumina Foundation, one of the nation’s largest donors to education groups, has given $10 million to a venture capital firm to fund for-profit startups with ideas to meet the nation’s education challenges.
