Nasser Paydar is scheduled to be installed as the fifth chancellor of IUPUI on Tuesday afternoon. Purdue University President Mitch Daniels will speak, and Indianapolis Mayor Greg Ballard is also scheduled to attend.
Education Management Corp., the parent company of the schools, will pay Indiana, four other states and the federal government $95.5 million over a period of years to settle whistleblower lawsuits.
Indiana University applicants have to apply separately for each campus. Trustees worry getting rejected by the Bloomington campus could discourage applicants from applying to a regional campus.
With its $300 million Grand Challenges program, Indiana University has joined a growing number of American universities committing major funding to tackling urgent, real-world problems.
Public U.S. colleges are growing more ambitious in the philanthropy race with multi-billion campaigns. An Indiana philanthropy expert says doing so could give lawmakers an excuse to further cut appropriations for higher education.
More than a half-century after top universities began admitting women to their MBA programs, business schools are finally catching up to law and medical schools in gender parity.
Grad rates for the 2008-09 freshman class were up 2 percentage points over rates for the 2007-08 freshmen class, to a record 86 percent. The four-year numbers went up one point, reaching an all-time high of 83 percent.
The book, “Breaking Cardinal Rules: Basketball and the Escort Queen,” has spurred a grand jury investigation into allegations that strippers and prostitutes were used to entertain University of Louisville basketball players and recruits.
City leaders want to make the 60-acre tract of land just north of the Indiana University School of Medicine campus a mix of all of the best the city has to offer and catch the eyes of more creative and highly sought-after workers.
The attorney for Katina Powell says his client is unlikely to cooperate with authorities and the NCAA unless she receives immunity for her allegations that a former University of Louisville men's basketball staffer hired her to conduct sex parties for recruits and players.
Andre McGee, a University of Missouri-Kansas City assistant basketball coach, has resigned in the wake of what he called "false allegations" that he arranged sex parties for recruits while he was a coach at Louisville.
The lawsuit seeks class-action status, claiming the career prospects of all University of Louisville students have been hurt by Katina Powell’s book, which alleges she supplied strippers and prostitutes for basketball recruits.
Louisville men’s basketball coach Rick Pitino vowed that he “will not resign” as investigations continue into allegations that one of his former staffers hired dancers to strip and have sex with recruits and players.
The renovated Mollenkopf Athletic Center would house a locker room, players' lounge, meeting rooms, a sports performance training area, a sports medicine facility and coaches' offices.
The Purdue Research Foundation and a partner firm are planning a pilot program with 100 to 300 students, who could get tuition funding in exchange for a cut of their future incomes.
Roderick Perry, senior associate director of athletics for Wright State University, will assume his new role with IUPUI on Jan. 1. He succeeds Michael Moore, who held the job for 19 years.
The Obama administration on Monday placed additional restrictions on how ITT Educational Services Inc. uses federal student loans, moving the Carmel-based operator of for-profit colleges one step closer to losing access to federal funds.
ESPN’s “Outside the Lines” which aired an interview with Katina Powell on Tuesday, said it received confirmation of her story from five former Louisville basketball players and recruits.
The lawsuit asks the court to clarify 1970s-era rules that prevent borrowers from getting rid of education debt in bankruptcy, except in cases in which repaying it would constitute an “undue hardship.”
The state-of-the-art Centaur Regional Equine Diagnostic and Surgical Center will provide health services to horses and serve as a working laboratory to support the College of Veterinary Medicine.
