A survey released Monday by the Chronicle of Higher Education showed compensation packages of
chief executives at public universities leveling off in 2008-2009, rising a relatively modest 2.3 percent. How did Indiana
college presidents fare?
The
Indiana Commission for Higher Education late last month slashed college budgets based on key performance
measures.
Debating why Earlham and Taylor grads don’t take their places alongside peers from DePauw and Wabash.
MedTech, whose flagship campus is located on the city’s northeast side, provides degrees in biotechnology and nursing, as
well as in other health-care related programs.
Indiana University must cut $58.9 million from its budget over the remainder of the state’s two-year budget cycle.
Over the past four years, Carrier has donated $71,000 for the purchase of equipment and software that will
allow mechanical engineering students at IUPUI to do more advanced work.
The Irish slip from the top spot on the latest Forbes survey, gauging the value of college football programs. Michigan tumbles
from No. 4 to No. 11.
The Indiana Commission for Higher Education said state colleges and universities need to find new ways to be efficient—without
new tuition hikes—to cope with spending cuts ordered by Gov. Mitch Daniels.
The Indiana Commission for Higher Education says state colleges and universities should find new ways to be efficient—without
raising tuition—to meet spending cuts ordered by Gov. Mitch Daniels.
The Indiana Commission for Higher Education hopes to present recommendations for cutting state spending for colleges and universities
to Gov. Mitch Daniels by Tuesday or Wednesday.
Universities searching for ways to cut $150 million say they’re looking at all options, including eliminating some sports
or even academic majors.
We Hoosiers are starting to treat education with a sense of urgency and as something
worth achieving. This response to our city’s, state’s and country’s education crisis is reassuring, because the
stakes couldn’t be higher.
The university said Wednesday it will see about $1 billion in savings over the next decade as a result of the continuing university-wide
cost-containment effort.
The plan to nationalize the federal student loan program threatens to force Sallie Mae
to hack its network of 26 offices down to five. Yet the company’s Indiana operations have several advantages that could
help weather the cuts.
Sheela Yadav, a supply chain and engineering management expert, has been interim dean since July 2008.
IU trustees have approved a contract extension for school president Michael McRobbie.
Indiana Gov. Daniels calls for cuts with announcement that tax collections for November were $144 million below forecast.
Ivy Tech Community College is offering at-risk students a chance to earn an associate’s degree in just 10 months instead of
two years.
The Innovate Indiana Fund will invest $5 million over the next five years to commercialize IU technologies and another
$5 million to help IU-affiliated startups get off the ground.
Mary Ostrye, 52, will have oversight of 150 different academic programs at Ivy Tech’s 23 campuses around the state.
