For-profit school operator ITT Educational Services Inc. told investors late last month that it had worked out a tentative deal with an outside party that would provide $100 million in loans to its students.
Prestige rising along with greater workload, national study shows.
Dr. Craig Brater, 66, has worked at the Indianapolis-based school for 26 years, including the past 12 as dean. The school is the second largest medical school in the nation and the only one in Indiana.
B. Kaye Walter had served as chancellor of academic affairs for the central Indiana region of Ivy Tech until her sudden departure this spring. Ivy Tech is replacing Walter with Kathleen Lee.
Neil Theobald, chief financial officer at Indiana University, will officially take the helm of the Philadelphia institution Jan. 1.
Carl C. Dalstrom says he will leave the student-loan guarantor on June 30, 2013. He has led the locally based not-for-profit since July 2000.
Purdue University is considering offering its aviation management classes through a school in Qatar that has partnered with several other U.S. universities.
Questions remain whether Indiana’s governor will be covered by the state’s “revolving door” law when he becomes president of Purdue University. State ethics rules require a one year cool-down period for public officials after leaving office, preventing them from working as lobbyists.
Indiana University senior vice president Neil Theobald is the sole finalist to be the next president of Temple University in Philadelphia. Theobald is chief financial officer at IU, overseeing a budget of about $3.1 billion.
Nearly a year after promising to impose harsher sanctions on the most egregious rule-breakers, NCAA leaders endorsed a proposal Thursday that would make schools subject to the same crippling penalties just handed to Penn State.
The Project School in Indianapolis has lost a court battle to remain open after a judge denied an injunction challenging Mayor Greg Ballard's decision to revoke the school’s charter.
For-profit colleges put revenues above education, and charge students high tuition and loan rates that could leave them in debt for years, a Senate Democratic report said Monday. Stock in for-profit colleges tumbled after the report.
An Indiana college is revving up an intense new automotive program designed to increase graduation rates and help students earn technical certificates in less time.
Some advocacy groups argue that an overreliance on part-time faculty can weaken the academic experience for students on campus.
The jobs are part of a $5 million expansion in which the company will add 20,200 square feet of space to its offices in Muncie. When finished next summer, the 75,000-square-foot facility will house 900 employees.
Student Development Co. helps college students run Textbook Painting businesses, to learn the ins and outs of entrepreneurship. Thirty students in seven states are participating this summer, including 10 student entrepreneurs in Indiana.
Reform-minded Superintendent of Public Instruction draws contributions from across the country.
ITT Educational Services Inc.'s stock took a licking Thursday after its quarterly earnings report badly missed expectations of Wall Street analysts.
Research and development comes under pressure in an age of austerity.
A state lawmaker plans to sponsor a bill seeking to close a loophole that bars the children of some military families from taking part in Indiana's school voucher program.
