Several new and growing training programs in central Indiana are designed to bring the next desperately needed generation of HVAC technicians up to speed.
Union leaders want promises from the Big Three automakers that their wave of new electric vehicle battery plants will fall under the UAW’s contract and that workers at those plants will make UAW assembly wages of $32 an hour.
After spending two decades in Washington, D.C., working for politicians, interest groups and one of the world’s largest telecommunications companies, Vanessa Green Sinders was ready to settle down, and Indiana was a natural fit.
The center is now searching for more low-income young people to
take advantage of free training as office administrators, certified nursing assistants and, within the next year, manufacturing trades workers.
Purdue, the IEDC and Belgium-based Imec announced Wednesday that they have entered into a five-year memorandum of understanding to advance Indiana’s semiconductor industry, with each party providing “significant investment” to the partnership.
The expansion will bring Eli Lilly and Co.’s total investment in the project to $3.7 billion, the most the company has ever spent on a single manufacturing site.
Hoosiers with disabilities and adult Indiana residents receiving benefits from the Temporary Assistance for Needy Families program could benefit under a new bill that would help connect underskilled employees to companies.
The former Indiana Fever star—now a business owner, mentor, arts patron, community leader and philanthropist—is opening her third Tea’s Me and partnering with the MLK Center Indy on a neighborhood basketball gym.
Cook Medical, the Indianapolis Airport Authority and Merchants Bank of Indiana are among 16 organizations honored as part of IBJ’s inaugural HR Impact awards. Their focus on education and training is especially important for the state.
Potential business owners of all ages are flocking to consultants and college-based business programs in hopes of learning how to successfully launch their own startup.
For the 14 Indiana companies that made Forbes’ 2022 list of America’s Best Employers for Diversity, efforts go far beyond diversifying the composition of the executive leadership team or the board of directors.
The state Senate voted 48-0 on Thursday in favor of allowing nursing schools to increase enrollment and hire more part-time instructors if they have a high percentage of graduates passing the national nursing licensing exam.
Ivy Tech will use the money to pay faculty and recruit staff, buy educational equipment and fund support services for students, the two organizations said in a joint announcement.
The bill, which allows nursing schools to increase enrollment and hire more part-time instructors, is widely supported by Indiana hospital systems, nursing schools and the long-term-care industry.
The IU board of trustees announced in April that Whitten—then the president of Kennesaw State University in Georgia—would take over as president on July 1.
Courtney Roberts previously spent 14 years with Eli Lilly and Co., most recently as the director of social impact for the company’s global health philanthropic partnerships.
Virginia Business named Stephen Moret its 2019 Business Person of the Year and credited him with resuscitating the state’s business-recruitment arm on the way to landing Amazon’s second headquarters, the largest economic development project in U.S. history.
With landscaped islands of greenspace, trees, benches, decorative walkways, and the refurbished Joseph Fountain and “Bears of Blue River” statue, downtown Shelbyville already is starting to draw more curious pedestrians—and more customers, retailers say.
