Indiana University has won a $9.2 million federal grant to lead two high-speed global networks intended to boost scientific
collaborations between U.S., European and Asian researchers.
Russell Kershaw is the new dean of its Clark H. Byrum School
of Business.
Military contracts have helped shore up sagging sales at University Loft Co., the furniture maker federal agents raided two
weeks ago. Still, University
Loft’s work force is almost 50 percent off its recent peak.
The Indiana Department of Education has awarded Marian University a $500,000 contract to operate a Turnaround
Leadership Academy, designed to train school leaders who can lead rapid improvements at struggling schools.
The Higher Education Opportunity Act requires schools to fight illegal distribution of copyrighted material and educate campus
communities about the issue. Schools that don’t comply risk losing their eligibility for federal student aid.
The board on Friday approved a $20.6 million construction contact for the First Street Towers project.
The firm was selected over another Indiana firm, a Texas firm and two Washington, D.C., firms to redesign the university’s
magazine.
IU says MaryEllen Bishop of Carmel has been elected to an alumni seat on the Indiana University Board of Trustees.
What started with a casual meeting between two Indiana University students in a business class in 2008 has grown into an operation
with projected revenue of $2 million this year. Despite long odds and little capital, Evan Burns and Adrian France launched
a weekly print newspaper at IU last September.
After 10-month search, Purdue University officials broaden quest for new permanent dean for Krannert School of Management.
School officials hope to have position filled by spring.
WGU Indiana is a branch of Western Governors University, a private, not-for-profit university designed for working adults
trying to earn bachelor’s or master’s degrees.
ITT Educational Services Inc., Apollo Group Inc.’s University of Phoenix, Career Education Corp. and other for-profit educators
are under increasing federal scrutiny over their recruitment practices and the level of student loan defaults.
The state is building a massive data system with a tough-love intent of rewarding good educators and schools and hammering
poor performers.
A sweeping proposal calls for schools to provide recruits a written summary of their schools’ policies on everything from
medical-insurance limits to athlete-transfer rates and scholarship renewals, all within a week of contact.
Enrollment during the period rose 17 percent, to more than 57,000 students as of Monday, the first day of the summer semester.
The Bulldogs are one of a handful of "mid-major" teams that have carved out a spot on the national map with a simple
strategy: You win by being yourself.
Marian University has renamed its school of business after Clark H. Byrum, president of Indianapolis-based The Key Corp.,
who made a significant gift to the university this month.
Top school administrators said a planned 0.7-percent increase in operational spending will be the smallest in several decades.
The new home for the Eugene and Marilyn Glick Eye Institute that’s rising from the ground at IUPUI must do a lot
of things well.
The administration is gearing up to produce tougher regulations that may reduce the amount of federal financial aid flowing
to for-profit colleges such as locally-based ITT Educational.
