Marian University will spend more than $32 million to build a new building for its college of osteopathic medicine and expects the school to add $44 million a year to the Indianapolis-area economy.
Purdue's Center for the Environment and the Chinese Academy of Sciences will use their partnership to focus on the impact of population growth and urbanization in the two nations.
College students are selecting majors that will lead straight to a job after graduation and not into a field riddled with layoffs and unemployment, local college leaders said.
The State Budget Committee has approved Indiana State University's plans to turn the former Terre Haute federal building into a business school.
University will spend nearly $70 million to construct health and life science research facilities, including a drug-discovery lab, in West Lafayette.
Kelley School of Business Dean Dan Smith said a $100,000 donation from two IU alumni will provide a hands-on learning opportunity
for students.
Officials are expecting up to 500 total professors and staff members who are at least 60 to leave their jobs.
Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels says he doesn't want to see trustees of the state's public colleges and universities asking
for more money at the Statehouse.
Ivy Tech counted 111,452 students statewide, up about 4 percent from a year ago, but down from the nearly 120,000 students
the college had for the spring semester.
The grant provides close to $1 million a year for five years to support cooperative research activities between the Low Energy
Neutron Source facility at IU Bloomington and the National Center for Neutron Research in Maryland.
In the last 10 years, Indiana’s major research universities—Indiana and Purdue—have nearly doubled their
science-based research budgets, to a total of $895 million. Yet Indiana’s public universities still run in the middle
of the pack nationally.
Marian University pulled in a whopping $54.2 million in pledges for the fiscal year ended June 30, largely related to its
effort to launch Indiana’s first college of osteopathic medicine. The year before, the Catholic institution raised $14.4
million, an in-house record.
There is clearly something important about the totality
of what is learned in college, but, if you want to apply all those upper-level classes in your major, you’d better study
hard or pick the right field.
Marian University in Indianapolis has named the founding dean of an Atlanta-area medical school to head up the school for
osteopathic doctors it plans to open in 2012.
Indiana University says the statewide fall enrollment at its eight campuses should set a new record with
about 109,000 students
in the IU system.
More than 21,000 Indiana high school students earned college credits through Ivy Tech Community College
last year, marking
a growing trend officials say saved parents more than $10 million in tuition bills.
A university committee said an early-retirement offer could reduce salary and benefit costs, and eliminate the need for layoffs.
Indiana's top school official says more students are graduating high school and many schools have closed the achievement
gap between white students and their black peers despite lean funding.
Replogle is one of the world’s largest globe manufacturers and dates to the 1930s. The company as of 2004 had 225 employees
and sales of $18 million.
Indiana University's Center on Philanthropy says its program is the only one in the country that focuses on philanthropy,
as opposed to the more technical not-for-profit management offered by other universities.
