April 24, 2012
Associated PressManchester College in northern Indiana is changing its name to Manchester University this summer. The school is expected to
open its new School of Pharmacy in Fort Wayne in August.
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April 23, 2012
Associated PressRose-Hulman Institute of Technology's trustees have named Vice President and Chief Administrative Officer Robert Coons
the school's interim president following the death of late President Matt Branam.
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April 21, 2012
Greg AndrewsJudge Tanya Walton Pratt late last month granted ITT’s motion for attorney’s fees and sanctions against Mississippi
attorney Timothy Matusheski, as well as two law firms that worked with him on the case—Motley Rice LLC in Los Angeles
and Plews Shadley Racher & Braun LLP in Indianapolis.
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April 20, 2012
Matt Branam, 58, died Friday morning after being transported from his office to a hospital. The 1979 graduate of the school
returned in 2009 to serve as president.
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April 20, 2012
Associated PressBall State University's president is blaming "incredibly unsympathetic" state legislators for the school's
low ranking on faculty salaries.
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April 20, 2012
Associated PressIndiana Tech officials expect the law school to have 100 students when it opens in the fall of 2013 and grow to about 360
students when it's in full operation. It will be the fifth one in the state.
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April 19, 2012
Associated PressThe $38 million Lyles-Porter Hall will house numerous health programs. Purdue also is planning a $25 million Drug Discovery
Building that will bring together pharmaceutical researchers from throughout the school.
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April 19, 2012
Bloomberg NewsFor-profit U.S. colleges, including Carmel-based ITT Educational Services Inc., would be barred from spending federal taxpayer
money on advertising, marketing and recruiting under a Senate bill targeting the education-based businesses.
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April 9, 2012
J.K. WallAfter the recession forced a freeze in its professors' pay, IU’s flagship Bloomington campus boosted faculty salaries
roughly 6 percent this year, vaulting its top professors’ pay past Purdue's professors.
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April 8, 2012
Associated PressGeorgetown University Associate Provost and Dean Robert L. Manuel will become president of the University of Indianapolis
in July, succeeding Beverley J. Pitts, who is retiring after seven years at the school.
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April 6, 2012
Illinois-based Tricoci University of Beauty Culture has acquired Honors Beauty College in Fishers and plans to expand into
the Indianapolis area with as many as seven campus locations over the next four years.
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March 28, 2012
Associated PressThe resolution looks to increase on-time graduation rates at both two- and four-year campuses and double the number of college
graduates produced in the state by 2025. The plan also aims to have 60 percent of Indiana adults with college degrees by 2025.
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March 28, 2012
Scott OlsonThe facility at IUPUI will include nearly 34,000 square feet of research and classroom space and is the first phase of a planned
two-stage project to improve the university's research facilities.
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March 25, 2012
Associated PressA person familiar with the basketball coaching search at the University of Illinois says the Illini are interested in talking
to Ohio University's John Groce after being turned down by Brad Stevens of Butler University.
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March 21, 2012
Associated PressA state official says Purdue University's presidential search committee didn't follow Indiana law when it held private
meetings in Indianapolis without sufficient public notice.
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March 21, 2012
Notre Dame's Mendoza College of Business scored highest in Bloomberg Businessweek's annual survey of top
undergraduate business schools. Indiana, Purdue and Butler universities also ranked among the top 50.
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March 12, 2012
A spokesman for the university said it has not entered into "formal talks" with anyone about switching conferences. Butler
has been an inaugural member of the Horizon League since its founding as the Midwestern City Conference in 1979.
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March 9, 2012
Kathleen McLaughlinThe School of Public and Environmental Affairs won’t be eliminated from IUPUI any time soon. Faculty members at SPEA
have turned down a proposal to merge with the Center on Philanthropy.
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February 25, 2012
IBJ StaffEventually, the system will heat and cool 5.5 million square feet of buildings and save $2 million a year in operating costs.
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February 20, 2012
George E. Miller III, a former astrophysicist at the NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, is the Indianapolis school's third
president.
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February 18, 2012
J.K. WallFor the past four years, Ivy Tech Community College has soaked up 60,000 extra students displaced by the recession even though
the funding for new staff and facilities has not kept pace. But now Ivy Tech President Tom Snyder says the sponge is waterlogged.
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February 16, 2012
Bloomberg NewsFor-profit college operators such as Carmel-based ITT Educational Services Inc.would lose a financial incentive to enroll
soldiers and veterans under U.S. Senate and House bills aimed at curbing what sponsors call aggressive marketing of subpar
programs.
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February 11, 2012
James Gladden / Special to IBJThe innovation that led to the execution of Super Bowl XLVI was truly remarkable. On so many dimensions (crowd sizes in Super
Bowl Village, scarves, the Legacy project, volunteers, murals and Super Service to name a few), Indianapolis demonstrated
that it is a first-class city. It demonstrated once again, and on a level never before seen, that Indianapolis is a best practice
for those studying hallmark event execution.
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February 11, 2012
The new law would prevent the I-Light data network from straying beyond its stated mission of serving the state’s colleges
and universities.
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February 3, 2012
Scott OlsonThe New York Giants are practicing at the private university on the south side of the city, giving it the type of attention
that money can't buy.
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Laura-the festivals and tastings are free. What does is strengthen the sense of community with activities. What are those empty lots doing for the Village? it's sad you can't see the good that this progress can do for the area. No one is requiring anyone to shop there. I guess you'd rather see a Dollar store move in or no, we'd rather see the property stand empty b/c change is out of the question.
Read down to the part about Brizzi. Someone needs to subpoena his "purchases" of Red RockPictures and Cellstar and his corresponding bank records, I mean c'mon, I'd like to see his alcohol usage records, too. http://diana-vice.blogspot.com/2011_01_01_archive.html
Wonder if my neighborhood can advertise our "retention" pond and act like it is a beach too?
a new record at the '11 salebration until they realized that it was a futile effort to get their crapwagon moter and crapwagon car up speed. And then they just quietly slunk off into the night and never spoke of it again. Nothing to see here folks.
millions for putting a company's bumper sticker on one of its Lolas. But you gotta take what you can get.