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.
School officials expect the 1,300-square-foot Center for Capital Markets and Investing to become a major hub at the college
by creating an atmosphere that closely simulates Wall Street.
The plan raises pay an average of 3 percent for most of the school’s 17,000 employees.
New student-lending rules proposed by the Obama administration could wipe out as much as two-thirds of profits at Carmel-based
ITT Educational Services Inc., some analysts believe.
The federal space agency opened an academy for science, engineering, mathematics and aeronautics at the small private college.
The Music for All Summer Symposium will bring about 1,600 students and teachers to campus June 18-25, 2011. Ball State is
to host the camp at least through 2015.
Resurgent Marion County districts are showing up affluent districts in improving student performance.
Almost four times as many fans showed up at the Indianapolis Colts’ training camp at Anderson University than did last year
in Terre Haute.
Thomas Snyder is set to lead the nation’s largest singly accredited statewide community college through at least 2014. His
annual salary of $300,000 remains unchanged.
The Indianapolis-based university is home to one of 15 of the NASA academies and the first in Indiana.
Shares in ITT Educational Services Inc., based in Carmel, declined 13 percent Monday morning, to $56.02 each, after being downgraded
