AUG. 19-25, 2022
Reporters Susan Orr and Taylor Wooten take a deep dive into the recently announced plans to split IUPUI into an urban campus for Indiana University and an independent satellite location for Purdue University. Local business and tech-industry leaders say they see the effort as a chance to boost the available workforce for local companies, downtown’s roster of research institutions and the region’s economy as a whole. Also in this week’s issue, Peter Blanchard gives us a sense of what to expect from the state committee studying marijuana and potentially ways to regulate it for legal use. And Dave Lindquist examines a new approach to philanthropy taking hold in central Indiana that focuses on collaborating with the communities that foundations seek to help.