Indiana State University on Friday announced the largest individual donation in the school’s 157-year history after the board of trustees approved the naming of the Bailey College of Engineering and Technology on the Terre Haute campus.
Purdue said the company has committed to provide funding to establish the Accenture Smart Factory on the West Lafayette campus as well as the Accenture Smart Manufacturing Scholars Program.
Eleven Fifty co-founder Scott Jones said the school is negotiating with bidders to take over operations.
Purdue University has rehired Dan Hasler to coordinate the school’s expansion in Indianapolis following an August decision to split IUPUI into separate Indiana University and Purdue operations.
The future of affirmative action in higher education is on the table as the Supreme Court wades into the admissions programs at the nation’s oldest public and private universities.
The tax referendum—which would be on the May 2023 ballot—would increase the median homeowner’s bill by $6 per month, IPS officials said.
In a significant expansion of their longstanding collaboration, the partners hope to develop new models for delivering therapies to patients and provide full tuition to between 75 and 100 students each year for 10 years.
The mantra of energy experts has been that we need to electrify everything. But installing all of that stuff—the solar panels, the heat pumps, the transmission lines—will require something that the United States doesn’t have: lots and lots of electricians.
Two candidates are unopposed in separate races. A third seat attracted only two candidates. And three incumbent board members chose not to seek re-election after a single term.
Purdue, which now has about 5,000 students at IUPUI’s campus, hopes to expand Indianapolis enrollment by at least 1,000 once Purdue begins operating its programs here under its own name.
VisionThree’s $80 million effort aims to place virtual-reality career labs in every high school, community college and university in Indiana by 2025.
Gov. Eric Holcomb, Indiana Secretary of Commerce Brad Chambers and Purdue University President Mitch Daniels are scheduled to join executives from SkyWater Technology to make the announcement.
Dismissing proposals to restrict gun ownership, Indiana Gov. Eric Holcomb said the solution is to “focus on the individual problems” and to continue providing grants to schools for security upgrades.
The district says the project initially would place solar panel arrays on 20 schools and eventually save tens of millions of dollars in energy costs.
Combining 80 hours of classroom instruction with 80 hours of hands-on training, Catapult addresses entry-level skills that could lead to job opportunities along assembly lines, supply chains and in machine operations.
Advocates for sex education in schools say the subject has been politicized by conservatives and lumped into the loud debate about what students are learning about race and what books they have access to in school.
In 2015, Stephanie Drewry launched a children’s cooking school in her home, with the vision of eventually opening a brick-and-mortar location. Two years later, she opened Sprouts Cooking School in Carmel. A second location is on the way.
Herron Classical Schools said the former Salvation Army of Indiana Divisional Headquarters building next to the Children’s Museum of Indianapolis will become the permanent home of Herron Preparatory Academy.
Local tech-industry executives say an expansion of an existing investor tax-credit program, plus an increased emphasis on high-school computer education, would go a long way to help support the state’s tech sector.
Adrian Matejka, who grew up in Indianapolis, is the Ruth Lilly Professor of Poetry at Indiana University Bloomington.
