Michael A. Carroll Award winner: Daniels still aiming higher, no matter the role
Thinking big and inspiring others to do so as well has been Mitch Daniels’ hallmark through five decades in business, public service and higher education.
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Purdue names reimagined business school after Mitch Daniels
Purdue Board of Trustees Chair Mike Berghoff said the university will invest a minimum of $100 million to relaunch the school under the new name. A $200 million fundraising campaign will also be implemented.
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Purdue, IU agree to split IUPUI campus, with both planning growth, stronger Indianapolis identities
The move is intended to drive growth in enrollment, research and particularly prestige, in part by eliminating the school’s tongue-twisting name. Purdue intends to grow its presence in Indianapolis as well.
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Pacers communications exec Danny Lopez to run for Indiana House
Lopez is running on the Republican ticket for House District 39, which includes portions of Carmel and Westfield.
Mitch Daniels decides not to run for U.S. Senate
The announcement ended speculation that he would jump into the race after sitting Sen. Mike Braun decided to run for governor.
Beverly Gard: Beltway-based group is wrong about Mitch Daniels
The Indiana U.S. Senate race is almost two years away, and already, an outside D.C.-based group is trying to pick our Republican candidate.
Super PAC takes aim at Mitch Daniels over possible Senate bid
Prominent national conservative organization Club for Growth hopes to keep two-term Indiana governor and former Purdue University President Mitch Daniels out of a new race for U.S. Senate with a blistering new ad.
Purdue sees big Indianapolis expansion potential from IUPUI revamp
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.
Breaking down the IUPUI changes announced Friday
For 52 years, IUPUI has existed as a sort of marriage between Indiana University and Purdue University. As they shift that relationship, here’s what we know about what will change and what will stay the same.
Mitch Daniels stepping down as president of Purdue University
Daniels will be replaced by the university’s dean of engineering and executive vice president for strategic initiatives, the university announced.
Nate Feltman: Daniels’ action-oriented approach endures through foundation
The work of one of the foundation’s fellows has brought the Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library to Indiana.
Mitch Daniels foundation, Elevate Ventures partner on entrepreneurial effort
The new partnership is designed to give Hoosiers that graduate from the two-year fellowship an opportunity to gain guidance and potentially access capital to propel their ideas into the commercial realm.
Mitch Daniels: Beware of the pandemic of second-guessing
I’m worried about preventing a sickness, one we’ve been through before—much more recently than the last pandemic flu.
Mitch Daniels: Kids can’t write. Parents, this is your chance to help.
Even in a course fully subscribed by students from our Honors College, a class full of future doctors, business executives, computer engineers and the like, the quality of written expression was almost uniformly—sorry to choose this word—pathetic.
Mitch Daniels: Scraps of good news amid coronavirus concerns
Across the economy, private and not-for-profit enterprises are going to discover which works of theirs, and which expenditures, are really essential.
Mitch Daniels: There’s plenty that’s fishy about fight against salmon
Ultimately, the worst damage of anti-science lies in its opportunity costs. Because they are not yet apparent to ordinary citizens, such costs do not generate an outcry commensurate with the harms they impose.
MITCH DANIELS: The values learned on the farm are important for all
Successive revolutions in mechanization, horticulture and biotechnology have been an enormous blessing, enabling a tiny percentage of Americans—today fewer than 2%—to feed the rest of us and much of the world.
Mitch Daniels: A big idea—An energy-water corridor on the border
A consortium of more than two dozen scientists and engineers proposes an “energy-water corridor” along the nearly 2,000 miles of the U.S.-Mexico border. It is that rarest of modern phenomena: an ecumenical concept with unifying potential, an idea that even sworn enemies can love.
Daniels defends daughter’s tailgate-village contract with Purdue
Purdue University President Mitch Daniels says he "bent over triple-backwards" to avoid the appearance of favoritism in the school's agreement to let his daughter's company showcase its tiny homes.
Under Daniels, Purdue unleashes surge of startups
Before Mitch Daniels took the helm, the university used its intellectual property to create about eight startups annually. The school has been averaging nearly three times that each year since.
How long can Purdue’s tuition freeze last?
President Mitch Daniels said he didn’t think the school could keep tuition costs down as long as it has and he’s disappointed other colleges haven’t followed suit.
Daniels calls Trump’s immigration order ‘bad idea,’ urges him to revoke it
The Purdue University president said in a written statement that "if the idea is to strengthen the protection of Americans against terrorism, there are many far better ways to achieve it.”