Colleges and Universities

Ex-higher ed chief Jones unveils college completion group

March 2, 2010
J.K. Wall
With funding of $12 million over four years, Stan Jones wants to influence states to focus on getting college students to graduate.
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IU president plans aggressive building campaign

February 24, 2010
J.K. Wall
In a speech Tuesday, President Michael McRobbie said IU is gunning to construct at least 12 buildings on its Bloomington and Indianapolis campuses in spite of the economy and falling state funding.
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IU fund-raising campaign meant to expand IUPUI, life sciences

February 23, 2010
Associated Press
Indiana University's president says IU this fall will launch a $1.1 billion fund-raising campaign aimed at expanding the IUPUI campus' life science programs.
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IU, Purdue try to preserve research despite budget cuts

February 23, 2010
J.K. Wall
The president of each school will update budget-cutting progress in state-of-the-university speeches Tuesday.
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HICKS: Tenure is protectionism in a tweed jacketRestricted Content

February 20, 2010
Mike Hicks
Academic tenure, with its promise of lifelong employment based upon five to seven years of work experience, is silly and makes those of us who have pursued a career in teaching and research look disingenuous.
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New president of Harrison College takes over for father

February 6, 2010
 IBJ Staff
Jason Konesco, 38, came to what was then called Indiana Business College in 1999 after working for Brightpoint Inc.
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Harrison College names new president

February 5, 2010
J.K. Wall
Son of long-time president set to lead Indianapolis for-profit, adult-centered school during historic growth phase.
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Ivy Tech names new business school dean

January 26, 2010
Ivy Tech Community College's new dean of the School of Business for its East Central Region will oversee all business programs at its Anderson, Marion and Muncie campuses.
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Purdue tops Indiana colleges in MBA-school rankings

January 25, 2010
Purdue University's Krannert School of Management MBA program ranked 54th worldwide and ninth among U.S. public institutions. The program at Indiana University's Kelley School of Business ranked 57th and 10th, respectively.
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Rising pay for coaches puts pressure on athletic departments

January 23, 2010
Anthony Schoettle
A group of academics recently grilled the NCAA about what it plans to do to secure the future of more than three-fourths of its largest members, whose athletic departments are hemorrhaging cash at a surprising rate.
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Purdue to slice benefits for staff, techology costs

January 22, 2010
Associated Press
University will cut employee benefits, retirement contributions and information technology services to partially close a $67 million budget deficit for the West Lafayette campus
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Orbis Education lands $8 million in venture capital

January 19, 2010
Peter Schnitzler
The locally based maker of nursing-education software will use the infusion to accelerate growth.
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Recession takes toll on university president pay

January 18, 2010
 IBJ Staff and Associated Press
A survey released Monday by the Chronicle of Higher Education showed compensation packages of chief executives at public universities leveling off in 2008-2009, rising a relatively modest 2.3 percent. How did Indiana college presidents fare?
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State links university funding to lifting graduation ratesRestricted Content

January 16, 2010
J.K. Wall
The Indiana Commission for Higher Education late last month slashed college budgets based on key performance measures.
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MedTech College bought by private equity firm

January 7, 2010
MedTech, whose flagship campus is located on the city's northeast side, provides degrees in biotechnology and nursing, as well as in other health-care related programs.
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IUPUI dedicates engineering lab funded by Carrier Corp.

January 2, 2010
 IBJ Staff
Over the past four years, Carrier has donated $71,000 for the purchase of equipment and software that will allow mechanical engineering students at IUPUI to do more advanced work.
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College cuts will favor some schools over others

December 23, 2009
Associated Press
The Indiana Commission for Higher Education said state colleges and universities need to find new ways to be efficient—without new tuition hikes—to cope with spending cuts ordered by Gov. Mitch Daniels.
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PAYNE: How we can improve our 'talent dividend'

December 19, 2009
Brian Payne
We Hoosiers are starting to treat education with a sense of urgency and as something worth achieving. This response to our city’s, state’s and country’s education crisis is reassuring, because the stakes couldn’t be higher.
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Obama reforms not necessarily dire for Sallie Mae in IndianaRestricted Content

December 12, 2009
J.K. Wall
The plan to nationalize the federal student loan program threatens to force Sallie Mae to hack its network of 26 offices down to five. Yet the company's Indiana operations have several advantages that could help weather the cuts.
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University of Indianapolis names new business dean

December 9, 2009
 IBJ Staff
Sheela Yadav, a supply chain and engineering management expert, has been interim dean since July 2008.
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Indiana University extends president's contract

December 4, 2009
Associated Press
IU trustees have approved a contract extension for school president Michael McRobbie.
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State colleges face $150M in cuts as tax revenues fall

December 4, 2009
 IBJ Staff and Associated Press
Indiana Gov. Daniels calls for cuts with announcement that tax collections for November were $144 million below forecast.
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Indiana University launches $10M seed fund

December 4, 2009
Peter Schnitzler
The Innovate Indiana Fund will invest $5 million over the next five years to commercialize IU technologies and another $5 million to help IU-affiliated startups get off the ground.
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Ivy Tech offers fast degree for at-risk students

December 4, 2009
Associated Press
Ivy Tech Community College is offering at-risk students a chance to earn an associate's degree in just 10 months instead of two years.
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Ivy Tech names new academic programs chief

December 3, 2009
 IBJ Staff
Mary Ostrye, 52, will have oversight of 150 different academic programs at Ivy Tech's 23 campuses around the state.
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  1. So by that same logic, colleges, NASCAR and a multitude of other organizations must be hiding things because those were also cited by Anthony as events that he cannot get data for. Where are those orgs crowing about their ratings? Again, you pretend that it is only the IRL that Anthony can't get info about.

    Does it sound like Da Nang in '72 around your house? Remember, you are not paranoid if they are really out to get you.

  2. So since the Daytona 500, Super Bowl and MLB have invited potus's to attend, I guess they are in poor condition?

    Security intrustions would be minimal at worst. I was there when the sitting vpotus (Quayle) attended the 500. He was helicoptered in, sat for part of the race in the turn 2 suites and then left with minimal issues. Granted security would be tighter, this would be no worse than him giving a public speech or taking a walk back to the white house like he has done.

    Helicopter him into the infield near the pagoda. whisk him up to the suites in the tower. all is good. The height of the tower and the dark tinting would make it near impossible for a gunman to take aim. other than clearing out the pagoda plaza for a little while, no issues.

  3. take a look at flagstars sign and tell me that is what you want. You can do cool, without destroying the historic fabric of downtown.

  4. Bravo


  5. >

    So you'd perfer an oversized gov't? Without getting into a mud fight about who is right & wrong, it's easy to explain a Liberal mindset: bring all privatized programs under the gov't and make sure it's available to everyone (as if it can't be done without the gov't absorbing it.

    The other thing to go with that is a large gov't is like an umbrella, giving everyone shelter when they need it. But it has to be big enough such that any holes which develop in the umbrella can be protected. If it keeps growing & growing, the greater the chances people should (ought to, but not necessarily will) everyone will be covered.

    There's an excellent example of outsourcing which most people won't think of it: Sallie Mae (nee USA Group). They were ahead of the curve.
    They saw an opportunity for a business and went for it. Obama wants to absorb many companies such as this one into the gov't. Why? Can the federal gov't do it better? I'm not looking at it from the # of jobs lost, I'm looking at how the entire system works.


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    One of the stories which was in the press dealt with people near the Illinois border, where people would cross over, drop their kids off at day care, return to Indiana to work. They whined it would screw up their schedules to be out of sync for 6 months. Regardless of the names for time zones, the way I had to express it to clients was, "we're on New York time" or, "We're on Chicago time." Back then they were out of synch six months, weren't they?



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