The trustees of financially strapped Ivy Tech Community College have approved raising tuition by $5 per credit hour each semester for the next two years amid efforts to close a $68 million budget shortfall.
The lawsuit brought by Pennsylvania Gov. Tom Corbett failed to show a violation of federal antitrust law, U.S. District Judge Yvette Kane said in her decision throwing out the case.
IU President Michael McRobbie told trustees meeting in Indianapolis that the 1.75-percent hike was the lowest tuition increase possible while ensuring world-class educational opportunities for students
Marian University in Indianapolis has announced it has reached its self-imposed limit of 162 students for the incoming class of its new college of osteopathic medicine. It will be the first medical school to open in Indiana in more than 100 years.
The second year of a 25-percent tuition discount still hasn't boosted summer semester enrollment at Indiana University's main campus.
Mounting budget woes and the need to deal with a $68 million deficit could force Ivy Tech Community College to close up to a quarter of its school sites around Indiana, school officials said.
The proposed increase will make Ball State's in-state tuition nearly $9,200 for 2013-14 and about $9,300 the following year.
The NCAA is overhauling its event bidding format, and in June will bid out 500 championship events to be played over the next four years.
The student lender wants to separate its education loan management and consumer bank businesses into two publicly traded entities. The firm is a major employer in Indiana, with more than 2,600 employees at offices in Indianapolis, Fishers and Muncie.
The $360 million initiative will be formally launched on Thursday by Gov. Mike Pence, executives of five major life sciences companies and officials of the state’s research universities.
The former chairwoman of the Indiana Democratic Party is running against MaryEllen Kiley Bishop, a former chairwoman of the IU Alumni Association. Both women are Indianapolis attorneys.
Michael Harris, who resigned from IU-Kokomo on Sept. 19, claimed he was the victim of a smear campaign by school administrators.
The Freedom From Religion Foundation has filed a formal objection with university officials over an elective honors class called “Boundaries of Science,” which the foundation maintains teaches religion rather than science.
The school is nearly three-fourths of the way to reaching its goal of $40 million in savings or new revenue.
An Indiana appeals court ruling regarding the death of a Wabash College freshman may force national fraternities to take more responsibility for misconduct at chapter houses.
Ball State University has closed the books on its January decision to pull its sponsorship of seven academically struggling Indiana charter schools.
Dr. Jay Hess was picked to become the 10th dean in the school of medicine’s 110-year history and the first dean in the past five to come from outside IU.
BSU’s Jo Ann Gora was the fifth-highest-paid public college president in the United States during the 2011-12 academic year, according to a new survey released Monday.
Idalene Kesner will be the first woman to lead the school, and one of only a small handful of female business school deans in the United States.
On June 20, a California federal court will determine if an antitrust lawsuit brought by former UCLA basketball player Ed O’Bannon—who argues he should’ve been paid for the use of his likeness on game broadcasts and in EA Sports video games—can become a class action.
