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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December 6, 2010
IBJ StaffAlgeania Freeman will retire Dec. 31 after three years at the school, officials said late Monday morning. Former NCAA executive
Charlotte Westerhaus will serve as acting president while the predominantly black university conducts a nationwide search
for a new leader.
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August 21, 2010
IBJ StaffThe federal space agency opened an academy for science, engineering, mathematics and aeronautics at the small private college.
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August 16, 2010
Associated PressThe Indianapolis-based university is home to one of 15 of the NASA academies and the first in Indiana.
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January 26, 2009
Martin University needs to raise $1.26 million to restore its campus from December flooding caused by a burst pipein
addition to $1 million the predominantly black school was already trying to raise in order to
shore up its fragile finances.
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November 3, 2008
Kathleen McLaughlinSeven Martin University trustees have resigned this year, and at least two say President Algeania Freeman's methods were
a factor.
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October 27, 2008
Scott OlsonMartin University students upset over the firing of a popular professor are staging protests over the direction the school
has taken under new President Algeania Freeman. Freeman in January replaced the Rev. Boniface Hardin, a Benedictine monk who
founded the inner-city school 30 years ago. She since has roiled many faculty members and students by letting go employees-many
times without reason, they contend-as part of a strategy to cut costs. IBJ reported their concerns in July. But the Oct. 20...
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July 21, 2008
Tracy DonhardtIn less than four months, new Martin University President Algeania Freeman said, she hit her two main objectives for the state's
only predominantly black university: cut costs and increase fund raising. But her whirlwind of activity
has not come without controversy.
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November 6, 2006
Chris O'MalleyIn an 80-grit patch of the city fluent in poverty and despair, the Rev. Father Boniface Hardin lectures a visitor on how businesspeople
need to learn the language and culture of countries where they operate. If not out of deference, then do it for practical
reasons, he says, painting a picture of foreign business partners who "bow their heads and say, 'This guy is one big sucker
and we can rip him off,' in their language." What at first sounds...
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"And the success of the Indiana GOP to not allow an expansion of Medicaid had nothing to do with Indiana hospitals' financial woes? Fixed that for you; editorial bias rebalanced. Seriously, there are so many things wrong with Obamacare that the only way one can view it as a success is to assume that it was designed to fail our way into a government single payor healthcare system. The system is complex, creates huge regulatory burdens and overhead and yet still does not have adequate means to control escalating health care costs. But then when you elect a 10th grade math drop out with no quantitative reasoning skills to be President of one of the world's most important economies in troubled times, you can't really be surprised by blatant stupidity.
No NIMBYs here to chase off a decent development. We don't need tons of parking and we'd happily play the role of host to a downtown Whole Foods.
Whatever you do, don't change a single thing about Broad Ripple. I want it to look just like it did in the late '70s, with 30% of the north side of Broad Ripple Avenue burned out and plenty of places to park. That's right Broad Ripple, NEVER CHANGE. Let the world pass you by, don't improve your empty, abandoned lots full of weeds. Someday someone will want to film a zombie movie here.
Hollywood could step in and make a movie about the history about this forlorn series. It could be a full celebrity cast of characters. WOW. http://www.advanceindiana.blogspot.com/2013/02/indiana-taxpayers-forced-to-pay-for.html
This shouldn't come as a shock to many. Austin is a great city, and Indy needs to take some notes. Austin invests in decent transit options, has a highly educated workforce, embraces a creative class, and --despite being the state capital-- is not micromanaged by rural and suburban legislators. Want Indy to grow? Invest in the city (i.e. spend money). Raise taxes a bit, and use the money to improve education. And keep the state legislature out of Indy the other 9 months of the year.