August 7, 2012
Carl C. Dalstrom says he will leave the student-loan guarantor on June 30, 2013. He has led the locally based not-for-profit
since July 2000.
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August 6, 2012
Associated PressPurdue University is considering offering its aviation management classes through a school in Qatar that has partnered with
several other U.S. universities.
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August 4, 2012
Associated PressQuestions remain whether Indiana's governor will be covered by the state's "revolving door" law when he becomes president
of Purdue University. State ethics rules require a one year cool-down period for public officials after leaving office, preventing
them from working as lobbyists.
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August 3, 2012
Associated PressIndiana University senior vice president Neil Theobald is the sole finalist to be the next president of Temple University
in Philadelphia. Theobald is chief financial officer at IU, overseeing a budget of about $3.1 billion.
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August 2, 2012
Associated PressNearly a year after promising to impose harsher sanctions on the most egregious rule-breakers, NCAA leaders endorsed a proposal
Thursday that would make schools subject to the same crippling penalties just handed to Penn State.
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July 30, 2012
Bloomberg News, Associated PressFor-profit colleges put revenues above education, and charge students high tuition and loan rates that could leave them in
debt for years, a Senate Democratic report said Monday. Stock in for-profit colleges tumbled after the report.
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July 29, 2012
Associated PressAn Indiana college is revving up an intense new automotive program designed to increase graduation rates and help students
earn technical certificates in less time.
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July 28, 2012
Ellen KobeStudent Development Co. helps college students run Textbook Painting businesses, to learn the ins and outs of entrepreneurship.
Thirty students in seven states are participating this summer, including 10 student entrepreneurs in Indiana.
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July 26, 2012
J.K. WallITT Educational Services Inc.'s stock took a licking Thursday after its quarterly earnings report badly missed expectations
of Wall Street analysts.
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July 23, 2012
Cory SchoutenThe National Collegiate Athletic Association's swift and severe punishment of Penn State University over a sexual abuse scandal
is a bold departure from its normal operating procedure.
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July 23, 2012
Bloomberg News, Associated PressThe NCAA on Monday morning slammed Penn State with an unprecedented series of penalties, including a $60 million fine and
the loss of all coach Joe Paterno's victories from 1998-2011, in the wake of the Jerry Sandusky child sex abuse scandal.
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July 23, 2012
Associated PressBall State University's trustees have approved plans for a $4.6 million planetarium that school officials say will become
the largest in Indiana.
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July 20, 2012
Associated PressPurdue University's trustees have approved an acting president to lead the school until Gov. Mitch Daniels becomes its
president in January.
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July 20, 2012
Associated PressPurdue University officials are working on plans for an $89 million project to build a new classroom and library building
that would take the place of an old power plant on the West Lafayette campus.
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July 16, 2012
Chris O'MalleyIvy Tech Community College will begin offering accounting, business, criminal justice and information technology classes at
the former airline campus on the northern edge of Indianapolis International Airport.
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July 16, 2012
Lilly Endowment Inc. has awarded the University of Indianapolis a $2 million grant to help it begin cataloging four decades
of city history as part of the university’s planned Institute for Civic Leadership & Mayoral Archives.
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July 11, 2012
Associated PressPurdue University says donations to the school rose by 32 percent during the past year for its second-best fundraising year
on record.
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June 27, 2012
Associated PressIndiana Gov. Mitch Daniels will receive a big pay raise when he leaves office in January and takes over as president of Purdue
University, possibly earning more than five times as much salary.
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June 23, 2012
J.K. WallColleagues of Gov. Mitch Daniels say Hoosiers should expect him to bring a familiar approach to his upcoming role at Purdue
University: Do more with less, reward performance, find creative ways to tap new pools of money, and use warm folksy charm.
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June 22, 2012
Associated PressThe governor said Friday he was checking whether he could press members of the General Assembly on the university's behalf
after he becomes Purdue's president in January, because of state ethics rules that require a one-year "cool down"
for public officials after leaving office.
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June 22, 2012
Kathleen McLaughlinA long-discussed School of Philanthropy at IUPUI is one step away from becoming a reality. The Indiana University Board of
Trustees was expected to vote Friday on whether to create the school, which would be the first of its kind.
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June 22, 2012
Associated PressIndiana University says its plans to offer a financial literacy program to give students the tools to complete college without
excessive debt.
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June 21, 2012
Associated PressIndiana Gov. Mitch Daniels says he'll live in the president's house once he takes over at Purdue University but will
go back and forth to his Carmel home.
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June 21, 2012
Associated PressAs expected, Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels will become the next president of Purdue University when he leaves office in January.
Purdue officials introduced Daniels as the school's new leader Thursday following a vote by the board of trustees.
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June 19, 2012
IBJ Staff and Associated PressA board of trustees dominated by Daniels' own appointees will select him as the university's 12th president Thursday,
sources told IBJ and other news outlets. The appointment will add a dramatic new chapter to his diverse career.
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Can IBJ please stop referring to this property as "Kessler Mansion"? What a ridiculous title for the biggest, bloated, blight in our city. It's not a mansion. At best, it's an ideal site to shoot low-budget porn. Ahhh! Another business use!
Its stories like these that prove that a Ball State diploma is worth less than the paper that its printed on. A real institution of higher learning would have taken care of this long ago. No way should this crap be taught in a SCIENCE class.
It is such a shame that King Ballard has made Indianapolis into Chicago south with all of the rampant corruption.
How many of these 1,259 bills were actually heard and voted on on the floor vs how many were shot down in committee?
When a an arrogant young guy with essentially no experience and no qualifications for the job, was dropped into an Administrator position out of nowhere by his "mentor" in the Mayor's office things seemed fishy. Sometimes things are what they seem.