Purdue launches ‘affordability grant’ to help tackle college costs
Purdue University is rolling out a grant program to help lower- and middle-class Indiana students afford college.
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Indiana State names Central Missouri provost as next president
Deborah Curtis, an ISU alum, will become the first woman president of the 152-year-old university.
Firm that makes plagiarism-detection software gets boost from Indy entrepreneur
Ray Henderson, who operates the boutique advisory firm Lessons Learned Ventures LLC, said he has joined the board of VeriCite as chairman with plans to “build the business in Indiana.”
Marian to unveil $150M fundraising campaign led by Klipsch gift
The Indianapolis-based university has big ambitions for boosting the national reputation of its teacher-training program—and it already is more than halfway to its fundraising goal.
ITT failure a calamity, but former execs say not fraud
The SEC broadly charges that two former ITT Educational Services executives concealed from investors the “extraordinary failure” of two off-balance-sheet student loan programs ITT helped set up in 2009 after the financial crisis shut down the market for traditional private education loans.
Study: Most student loan fraud claims involve for-profits
More than 7,300 claims of fraud came from students who attended the now-defunct Carmel-based ITT Technical Institute chain.
Study gives college sports D+ grade for race, gender hiring
Leadership positions at 130 Football Bowl Subdivision schools continue to be dominated by white men, according to a diversity report released Wednesday.
College athletes continue to earn degrees at record rates
Increases were at least partly attributed to academic progress among black players in each sport.
Holcomb’s agenda for 2018 targets workforce issues, education, opioids
Gov. Eric Holcomb said there would be “no more stove-pipe approach,” referring to criticisms by some legislative leaders that the workforce development system is convoluted and divided into isolated silos.
IU experts expect Indiana’s economy to outpace nation’s in 2018
In their annual Business Outlook forecast, Indiana University Kelley School of Business economists say employment gains will fuel economic growth in 2018.
Tobias gift of $5M to establish IU global development center
Indiana University will create a research laboratory focused on international development—including missions such as reducing poverty and inequality and addressing climate change—based on a $5 million gift from Deborah and Randall Tobias.
NCAA president urges change to basketball to restore trust
Basketball is critically important to the NCAA because it gets most of its annual revenue—roughly $800 million—from television rights fees for its men’s basketball tournament.
Indiana University ups bicentennial fundraising goal to $3B
The university said the campaign involving all its campuses has already raised more than $2 billion in donations with more than two years to go before the drive's planned completion.
Education Department might only partly forgive some student loans
The Department of Education is considering only partially forgiving federal loans for students defrauded by for-profit colleges, according to department officials, abandoning the Obama administration's policy of erasing that debt.
IU’s first couple act as ‘stewards’ of presidential home
IU President Michael McRobbie and his wife, Laurie Burns McRobbie, don’t live at Bryan House but it’s still a busy place.
Thirteen Ball State fraternities to go alcohol-free until 2018
Interfraternity Council President Trevor Holland said the decision was made with the university for the safety of their members and the community.
Education agency blasted amid student loan scam crackdown
Federal and state agencies are cracking down nationally for the first time on scams that gouge student loan borrowers, but critics say the U.S. Department of Education isn't helping.
IU to add 5 basketball statues inside Assembly Hall
The athletic department announced Tuesday it will add five statues to the remodeled Assembly Hall this week as a tribute to the Hoosiers' five national championships and its tradition-laden program.
UIndy building spree continues with $20M dormitory project
As enrollment swells, the south-side university is working with a local developer to construct two four-story buildings with capacity for 300 students.
Pitino out at Louisville as expected amid federal probe
The University of Louisville's Athletic Association, or ULAA, officially fired coach Rick Pitino on Monday, nearly three weeks after the school acknowledged that the program is being investigated as part of a federal corruption probe.