Hours after former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice presented the Commission on College Basketball’s sweeping recommendations for reforming a sport weighed down by corruption, NCAA leaders set in motion the process for turning those ideas into reality.
The Commission on College Basketball didn’t say whether college athletes should be able to cash in on their names, images and likenesses, but Condoleezza Rice's remarks to the Indianapolis-based NCAA suggested she thinks it is good idea.
The Commission on College Basketball, led by former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, sharply directed the Indianapolis-based NCAA to take control of the sport, calling for sweeping reforms. It called the environment surrounding college basketball “a toxic mix of perverse incentives to cheat.”
Dr. Jay Hess is one of three finalists to become president at Oregon Health & Science University in Portland, according to The Oregonian.
On Wednesday morning, the commission headed by former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice will present its proposed reforms to university presidents of the NCAA Board of Governors and the Division I Board of Directors at the NCAA headquarters in Indianapolis.
Real-world opportunities can range from colleges funding internship and experiential learning programs to businesses giving young professionals room to flex their muscles and earn their wings, according to experts in Indiana workforce issues.
As part of a plea agreement, 26-year-old Carmel resident Cavya Chandra admitted to forging documents from 2008 to 2014 in order to gain admittance to three universities—Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, Cornell University in Ithaca, New York, and IUPUI.
Purdue board chairman Mike Berghoff said the former Indiana governor is enhancing the university's reputation nationally.
Tom Sugar, who founded Indianapolis-based Complete College America with the late Stan Jones, hopes to “build seamless pathways” for students between community colleges and four-year institutions.
The Center for Ray Bradbury Studies, which is devoted to the study of the science fiction-fantasy author's works, won a $50,000 grant this month from the National Endowment for the Humanities to begin planning the giant archive's conservation.
Purdue University President Mitch Daniels plans to make his pitch to Indiana college students Friday afternoon to try to keep them in the state after graduation.
Purdue University said the tuition freeze and other steps have helped reduce student debt.
The university will hire six more economists and change the name of the research center as the result of two new gifts totaling $9 million.
The New Mexico lab, launched during World War II, is the nation’s leading nuclear-weapons research facility and employs 11,200 workers.
The school’s downtown campus will get $30 million in work, including a $17.2 million Downtown North Building to be constructed on the site of the former home of the Muncie Star Press.
Five 20-something-year-old entrepreneurs affiliated with Purdue University are pioneering technology involving rockets, satellites and hot air balloons that has gained far-reaching interest from an eclectic set of potential clients ranging from New Zealand sheep herders to oceanic pirate hunters.
Purdue Global is based in Indianapolis but has 15 campuses, with about 30,000 students and more than 2,000 faculty members.
The four-level, 600-spot garage is set be built on the eastern edge of the Muncie campus.
The NCAA is being pushed to put rules in place that would ban former offenders from competing in college athletics and sanction schools that fail to weed out potential predators. That would mean stepping into complicated territory.
Nine other universities—including three in Indiana—stand to make money off Loyola University’s unexpected march to college basketball’s Final Four
