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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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.