A major provider of services to children with developmental disabilities and emotional challenges plans to cease operations in late May, resulting in the loss of 134 jobs. It hopes to reopen later this year as a center for adults, with as many as 200 employees.
The Rev. Boniface Hardin, a Roman Catholic priest who co-founded Martin University to serve adult learners in Indianapolis, has died. He was 78.
A person familiar with the basketball coaching search at the University of Illinois says the Illini are interested in talking to Ohio University's John Groce after being turned down by Brad Stevens of Butler University.
It has been seven months since a committee tasked with finding the next Purdue University president began its hunt.
Indiana school superintendents will have to disclose more about their pay under a new state law.
An idea being kicked around the halls of IUPUI would split off the schools of medicine, nursing, dentistry, optometry, health sciences and social work into a separate administrative unit, based in Indianapolis.
Key parts of State Superintendent of Public Instruction Tony Bennett’s education reforms will be put under a miscroscope this summer by a special commission of state legislators.
A state official says Purdue University's presidential search committee didn't follow Indiana law when it held private meetings in Indianapolis without sufficient public notice.
Notre Dame's Mendoza College of Business scored highest in Bloomberg Businessweek's annual survey of top undergraduate business schools. Indiana, Purdue and Butler universities also ranked among the top 50.
The number of Indiana high schools considered "dropout factories" fell by half between 2002 and 2010, from 30 to 15, according to a report released Monday.
Franklin is planning to raise $120,000 by renting the performing arts center and middle school auditorium this year — six times what the district made in rental fees four years ago.
The governor included the measure as part of his final legislative agenda saying that he was concerned that college degrees were becoming too expensive.
A cash-strapped Indiana school district that angered parents by turning its buses over to a not-for-profit that began charging for children to ride will likely end that practice soon.
Student-reporting programs at Franklin College, Butler University aid cash-strapped newspapers statewide.
The successor to France Cordova, who is stepping down this summer when her contract expires, will have to tip-toe between two almost contradictory demands: Cut costs for students yet spend more to ramp up Purdue’s research enterprise.
Indianapolis Mayor Greg Ballard has appointed Jason Kloth as deputy mayor of education, a new cabinet-level position that reflects Ballard’s recent shift toward taking a more active role in education.
David Karandos, a broker who advised the Indiana State Teachers Association Insurance Trust before it collapsed in 2009, has reached a settlement. Karandos agreed to a 75-day suspension from working in the securities industry and may pay up to $50,000 in restitution.
Eugene White, superintendent of Indianapolis Public Schools, is now a finalist to lead a school system in Mobile County in Alabama, and he is interviewing for another superintendent’s post in South Carolina.
Indiana lawmakers signed off on minor school changes at the close of the 2012 session while reining in broader efforts sought by state schools Superintendent Tony Bennett.
A spokesman for the university said it has not entered into “formal talks” with anyone about switching conferences. Butler has been an inaugural member of the Horizon League since its founding as the Midwestern City Conference in 1979.
