Ball State leader: Raising faculty pay a hard sell
Ball State University's president is blaming "incredibly unsympathetic" state legislators for the school's low ranking on faculty salaries.
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Indiana Tech law school plan receives go-ahead
Indiana Tech officials expect the law school to have 100 students when it opens in the fall of 2013 and grow to about 360 students when it's in full operation. It will be the fifth one in the state.
IPS reform advocates seek school board shakeup
Some proponents of the Mind Trust plan to restructure Indianapolis Public Schools are looking to advance its key principles the old-fashioned way: by electing pro-reform members to the IPS board.
Judge slaps down attorneys behind ITT fraud lawsuit
Judge Tanya Walton Pratt late last month granted ITT’s motion for attorney’s fees and sanctions against Mississippi attorney Timothy Matusheski, as well as two law firms that worked with him on the case—Motley Rice LLC in Los Angeles and Plews Shadley Racher & Braun LLP in Indianapolis.
Angel Learning’s founder thinking big again
IT professor Ali Jafari, who netted Indiana University $23 million on its $130,000 investment in his Angel Learning when it sold three years ago, recently launched CourseNetworking, which allows learners across the globe to connect and chat around shared interests and class subjects.
Supporters defend Indiana voucher law in court briefs
Striking down Indiana's school voucher program because some schools are affiliated with churches would amount to unnecessary government interference into religion, the law's supporters argue in court documents.
Purdue set to start building life sciences park
The $38 million Lyles-Porter Hall will house numerous health programs. Purdue also is planning a $25 million Drug Discovery Building that will bring together pharmaceutical researchers from throughout the school.
Colleges could be banned from using tax funds for marketing
For-profit U.S. colleges, including Carmel-based ITT Educational Services Inc., would be barred from spending federal taxpayer money on advertising, marketing and recruiting under a Senate bill targeting the education-based businesses.
IPS issues rebuttal to Mind Trust’s reform plan
In an hour-long defense of Indianapolis Public Schools, Superintendent Eugene White outlined plans to streamline administrative staff, create more choices for parents, direct more resources to the district’s most challenged schools and give more autonomy to its highest performing schools.
New statewide exam to test students’ critical thinking
The test will replace the ISTEP exam currently taken by Indiana students in grades 3 through 11 and end-of-course assessments taken at the end of algebra 1 and English 10 classes.
IU professors top Purdue’s in pay after freeze ends
After the recession forced a freeze in its professors’ pay, IU’s flagship Bloomington campus boosted faculty salaries roughly 6 percent this year, vaulting its top professors’ pay past Purdue’s professors.
University of Indianapolis selects new president
Georgetown University Associate Provost and Dean Robert L. Manuel will become president of the University of Indianapolis in July, succeeding Beverley J. Pitts, who is retiring after seven years at the school.
Political, legal fights emerge over school vouchers
For all the arguments in favor of school vouchers, there are opponents who say vouchers erode public schools by taking away money, violate the separation of church and state by giving public dollars to religious-based private schools, and aren't a proven way to improve test scores.
Private schools raking in cash thanks to 2011 reform law
A generally overlooked part of the 2011 education reform package makes it clear donors to private schools can target their gifts to specific schools, a move that seems to have unleashed the tax credit’s full potential by helping private schools line up more donations.
Chicago university buys Fishers beauty college
Illinois-based Tricoci University of Beauty Culture has acquired Honors Beauty College in Fishers and plans to expand into the Indianapolis area with as many as seven campus locations over the next four years.
Town, gown and techies team up in Bloomington
Technology Partnership aims to boost sector, recruit employers and talent.
Young Indy-area tech entrepreneurs enjoy deep support
MyJibe co-founder Mike Langellier is among a new generation of tech entrepreneurs in the Indianapolis area that benefits from a host of support their predecessors never enjoyed.
Indiana to get $9.3 million for struggling public schools
Schools taking part in the federal funding must implement one of four intervention models to get their programs back on track and to boost students’ academic performance.
White wins no new job offers, will remain IPS chief
IPS superintendent Eugene White had been among the finalists for the top jobs at schools systems in Mobile, Ala., and in Greenville, S.C. But both districts chose this week to appoint internal candidates to lead their school systems.
IHSAA to make 11-stop tour to debate class system
Indiana High School Athletic Association Commissioner Bobby Cox and state Sen. Mike Delph have announced an 11-stop statewide tour to discuss Indiana's class basketball system.