Higher Ed

Corinthian Colleges leases space for local campus

March 13, 2010
 IBJ Staff
The new campus, which will operate as Everest College, will be the second Indiana campus for Corinthian
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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, 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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Fast-growing Ivy Tech feeling pain of funding cuts

January 26, 2010
Scott Olson
Hoosiers enrolling at fast-growing Ivy Tech Community College might find it increasingly difficult to get the classes they want at the times they prefer. Blame burgeoning enrollment and $10 million in funding cuts.
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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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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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Lumina awards $831,000 to state chamber, commission

November 23, 2009
The Indiana Chamber of Commerce and the Indiana Commission for Higher Education announced Monday afternoon that the Lumina Foundation for Education has awarded them $831,000 to help fund an initiative designed to increase the number of college graduates.
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State's college graduation rates bedevil education experts

October 31, 2009
J.K. Wall
Just over half of students at state-supported, four-year institutions in Indiana graduate within six years—a tremendous waste of resources by both students and taxpayers. The number of citizens with bachelor’s degrees is one of the surest indicators of economic success in a 21st century economy driven less by workers’ hands and more by their heads.
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State education officials urge greater emphasis on two-year degrees

August 28, 2009
J.K. Wall
Only one in 12 Hoosiers has an associate’s degree. That’s a big problem because nearly half of all jobs expected to be offered in the next decade and beyond will be middle-skill jobs—which require at least some post-secondary credential, like an associate’s degree, but not a four-year bachelor’s degree.
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HICKS: As classes begin, students have fresh opportunity

August 24, 2009
Mike Hicks
Classes start this week at Ball State University, and other colleges and universities across the country. For many, it is a bittersweet moment, as parents say goodbye to their now young adults, handing them over to professors and scarily youthful resident hall assistants for safekeeping.
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New higher-ed chief takes aim at dropout rates

August 3, 2009
J.K. Wall
Teresa Lubbers became Indiana commissioner for higher education on July 7 after serving 17 years as a Republican state senator from Indianapolis. She says every Hoosier needs some college-level training. Lubbers got a running start on her new job, having served as chairwoman of the senate education committee for years. She also worked frequently at the commission’s downtown offices during May and June—after her predecessor had left but before the Legislature returned for a special session to pass a budget. Her new staff dubbed her SenComm.
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Franklin College sues like-named competitor over marketing push

July 6, 2009
J.K. Wall
Franklin College filed a lawsuit today alleging trademark infringement against Ohio-based Franklin University, which will open a campus in Castleton this fall. The liberal arts college south of Indianapolis said the newcomer's marketing blitz has been too close to Franklin College’s own branding.

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Despite what you might think, lawyers are compartatively scarce in IndianaRestricted Content

June 29, 2009
Scott Olson
Only North and South Dakota, Tennessee and Wisconsin have smaller proportions of lawyers within their working populations. Experts point to the state's shrinking base of corporate HQs, the exodus of law school graduates, and a less litigious climate overall.
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KATTERJOHN: Leaders in education primed for successRestricted Content

June 22, 2009
Chris Katterjohn
There's reason to believe serious progress is coming, due to the people in leadership positions for the state in three key areas: the Department of Education, the Commission for Higher Education and Ivy Tech Community College.
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KINDELSPERGER: Historical advantages of endowments dive with marketRestricted Content

June 22, 2009
Kris Kindelsperger
Life has changed in higher education and changed very rapidly. The value of most endowments, just like our portfolios and 401(k)s, has plummeted. Today, institutions with the strongest bottom lines are likely to be those with strong management and business plans that work in today's economy.
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Some laid-off workers qualify for lucrative benefitsRestricted Content

June 15, 2009
Kathleen  McLaughlin
A little-known federal program provides support for retraining to workers whose employers were hurt by foreign trade. The Trade Adjustment Assistance Act also offers income replacement and health insurance benefits.
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Grads, career-changers surge into teachingRestricted Content

June 8, 2009
J.K. Wall
Folks from all sorts of professions are trying on teaching, to survive the recession or to give back to the community. Or both.
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More high schoolers enrolling in collegeRestricted Content

January 26, 2009
J.K. Wall
Fall Creek Academy is among a growing number of high schools that enroll their students to take classes at colleges, earning credit toward both a high school and a college degree.
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College-affordability debate focusing on wrong issuesRestricted Content

January 5, 2009
Mike Hicks
College affordability has gained a lot of attention over the past few years, but I am not sure that the simple focus on costs is the right way to think about the problem.
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IU striving to keep tuition affordableRestricted Content

December 29, 2008
Your Dec. 8 editorial, "State flunking affordability test," quotes liberally from the National Center for Public Policy and Higher Education's recent report, which concludes that 49 of 50 states—including Indiana—deserve an "F" for their affordability efforts. Unfortunately, this grade is based on an analysis that dramatically overstates college costs in Indiana—or at least those costs incurred by Hoosiers attending Indiana University.
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College Summit's goal is more skilled workersRestricted Content

March 10, 2008
Tracy Donhardt
Business leaders and educators agree on what's needed to improve Indiana's economic health and enhance its place in the global economy: a larger pool of skilled workers. Toward that end, a group of notfor-profits is expanding a program to get more low-income Indianapolis students to further their education after high school.
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  1. If you consider the distance to greenwood park mall from this loaction there are a number of new restraunts that have opened in the area- Fireside, Sammy's Pizza, DaDa's Pizza all close to the mall area and going north west, but still closer than greenwood park mall- poloclub steakhouse, bert and den's, The AllAmerican Clubhouse Sports Bar and Grill, just to name a few off the top of my head. Independents, that fit a niche for what they do. Just wanted all the facts out there.

  2. Hope F1 holds off on coming back til refueling ban is lifted. People ,no matter what the national stripe, like some form of competition in their racing. Love the "G" of F1 but this weekends race needed some "racing". One car behind another for 49 laps is not time or money well spent. Maybe F1 will do a NASCAR and make a mid season change. You bring that product to the US market and good luck. Indy is not world class but what road race Mecca are you gonna find at Uncle Sam's. Daytona??!! Unless NYC has plans for a Monza on the Island, Indy will have to do for now. My F1 monkey needs his fix and I dont care where I get it.

  3. I remember watching Bart Conner as a kid.

  4. Don't forget Bayh passing the "beer baron" law that allowed these exclusive distribution deals.

    This was before all of the countries major beer producers were foreign owned.

    Time to repeal the law.

  5. That development is called "McFarland Farms" and it's an early 90s three bedroom single home community. But it has 4 or 5 hotels and a nice apartment complex within a stones throw from this location. This place would do very good business with proximity to the hotels and the Southport Rd. I-65 exit.

    Still not my kind of place to hang out, but I think the local church is gonna have to eat it on this one.

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