While supporters of big-time college athletics say basketball championships increase sports revenue, stimulate fundraising and encourage student applications, data compiled by Bloomberg News show that not all of that is true, and there’s no guarantee of a lasting effect.
The Children’s Museum of Indianapolis has landed retired astronaut David Wolf as its first “Extraordinary Scientist-in-Residence,” calling on the native Hoosier to help develop programs sparking kids’ interest in science, technology, engineering and math.
Any expansion of Indiana's already ambitious school voucher program may have to wait after senators pushed for more information Wednesday to determine the effects of the fledgling program.
A Senate committee unanimously passed legislation that’s meant to bolster the state’s economy with a new council charged with aligning work-force training efforts. House Bill 1002 – which already passed the House – now moves to the full Senate for consideration.
Purdue University is planning to trim its federal lobbying costs and downsize its Washington, D.C., office by cutting ties with an outside lobbying firm.
Administrators expect the job cuts to save $2.2 million. Other savings will come through a 2-percent tuition increase next fall, a pay freeze and cuts in activities, utilities and services.
Butler University, Creighton and Xavier will join the so-called Catholic 7 schools in the new basketball conference, the schools announced Wednesday. The conference agreed to play its men’s basketball tournament at Madison Square Garden for the next three years.
A proposal to expand Indiana's private school voucher program was denounced during a Statehouse rally on Tuesday as a step that would take millions of dollars away from the state's public schools.
Andrew R. Klein will replace retiring dean, Gary Roberts, at the Indiana University Robert H. McKinney School of Law in Indianapolis in July.
Purdue University President Mitch Daniels on Monday eliminated merit raises for administrators earning more than $50,000 annually over the next two years in the first in a series of cost-cutting moves to cover the estimated $40 million cost of freezing tuition rates through 2015.
The fate of a proposal to expand Indiana's private school voucher program by making kindergartners and some other students immediately eligible could come down to something that no one seems to know — how much it will cost.
Several people who worked in former Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels' administration have landed jobs with Ivy Tech Community College, but a school spokesman says there's no mystery about the hires.
A proposed boost in the state's higher education funding is an encouraging step after more than $150 million was cut during the recession, Indiana University's president said Thursday.
A federal investigation and a shareholder lawsuit are the latest headwinds to threaten ITT Educational Services Inc., which is trying to reverse a precipitous decline in enrollment.
Twenty-five years ago, Butler University President Geoffrey Bannister had an idea to elevate the college by making the lowly men’s Bulldog basketball team a national power, then use it as a marketing tool to engage alumni, increase annual giving to the school, and recruit more and better students and instructors.
Legislative Republicans have defeated a Democratic proposal aimed at preventing a repeat of Purdue University's hiring of Mitch Daniels as its new president while he was still governor.
The Senate Appropriations Committee is examining the state of higher education funding as it continues Indiana's budget deliberations.
Public and private school advocates displayed rare unity Wednesday in support of preschool for Indiana children but split over an effort to give children school vouchers once they complete preschool.
Since moving to its current site in 2008, the campus has seen enrollment grow from about 450 students to 1,200.
A study by Chicago-based IFF found that 49 percent of K-12 students in Marion County are in schools that earned an A or B last year from the Indiana Department of Education.
