Ivy Tech wins $784,000 to re-enroll former students
The money is part of an effort by Indianapolis-based Lumina Foundation to boost the number of Americans with college-level degrees.
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Alliance aims to boost adult learning in Hancock County
Three separate colleges will hold classes in Hancock County—if a business-led education alliance can finance the space. The Hancock Community Education Alliance has lined up a vacant retail building on State Road 9 in hopes that Ball State, Purdue and Vincennes universities can offer classes next spring.
Indiana college students seek degrees that offer jobs
College students are selecting majors that will lead straight to a job after graduation and not into a field riddled with layoffs and unemployment, local college leaders said.
Dean of IU’s Indianapolis law school hopes to end campus confusion
Just about everyone thinks the Indianapolis law school is a branch of the one in Bloomington. It isn't, and Gary Roberts
says
confusion reigns as a result.
Ivy Tech gets $4.7M energy grant to retrain 1,500 workers
Federal money will help create programs at community college and Purdue University to offer skills in smart-grid technologies.
At Butler and Duke, ‘student-athlete’ means something
As is the case at Duke, Butler graduates about 90 percent of its players. As is the case at Duke, there’s more than mere lip
service paid to the classroom at Butler.
Governor approves new teacher licensing rules
Daniels signed the new rules Tuesday, three months after a state panel approved them amid criticism from college educators.
Ex-higher ed chief Jones unveils college completion group
With funding of $12 million over four years, Stan Jones wants to influence states to focus on getting college students to
graduate.
State links university funding to lifting graduation rates
The
Indiana Commission for Higher Education late last month slashed college budgets based on key performance
measures.
PAYNE: How we can improve our ‘talent dividend’
We Hoosiers are starting to treat education with a sense of urgency and as something
worth achieving. This response to our city’s, state’s and country’s education crisis is reassuring, because the
stakes couldn’t be higher.