The goal of the education MBA programs is to equip school leaders with business-type skills to lead well-funded schools to compete better internationally and to help the impoverished students in urban and rural schools catch up with their suburban peers.
The university's existing Evansville campus serves students for two years. The new site would allow students to finish their medical education in Evansville.
The head of IU's board of trustees says faculty need to accept that college standards are changing and adapt to stay ahead of the shift.
University and foundation leaders throughout the state are trying to find ways to target donors 35 and younger, through online tools that could be critical to future fundraising strategies.
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.
The university is interested in receiving funding to move utilities out of bottom floors to mitigate water issues during a flood. Other options would be to retrofit buildings and create better refuge from disasters.
The new president is seeking to build lasting gains from the school’s 15 minutes of hoops glory.
The U.S. Consumer Financial Protection Bureau is investigating at least two for-profit colleges, including ITT Educational Services Inc., over potentially abusive practices in marketing and originating student loans.
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.
Despite ongoing research, the energy form is still not economical in many cases.
Veterans could receive scholarships and college credits for their military experience if they pursue K-12 teaching in Indiana under a bipartisan proposal.
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.
The sheer size puts Indiana University’s Kelley School of Business in a small group of schools with such massive networks. The school has alumni in all 50 states, Washington, D.C., and 106 different countries.
More than 81,000 followers subscribe to @IUBloomington to keep track of a mix of news and entertainment.
Purdue University plans to expand undergraduate and graduate enrollment in computer science by more than a quarter to meet growing demand among employers.
After suffering a 7-percent dip in enrollment, Anderson University, a Christian liberal arts college, plans to cut 4 percent of its workforce.
The controversy about former Gov. Mitch Daniels’ emails criticizing the late historian Howard Zinn will continue this month as professors, students and staff members gather at universities around the nation to read Zinn’s writings.
Unlike Indiana University, Purdue doesn’t plan to take sides in the fight over a proposed state constitutional amendment that would ban same-sex marriages.
Indiana University has joined a campaign fighting a proposed state constitutional amendment that would ban same-sex marriages.
