Hoops success helps Butler avoid enrollment decline
Butler University has seen applications spike 43 percent over the last two years even though its 2009 strategic plan warned against a coming enrollment decline. The big difference? March Madness.
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Butler University has seen applications spike 43 percent over the last two years even though its 2009 strategic plan warned against a coming enrollment decline. The big difference? March Madness.
The private college announced Wednesday that it now has more than 5,500 students, including both graduates and undergraduates. The school welcomes 1,100 new students this fall, including its second-largest freshman class of 830.
Purchase agreements in the nine-county Indianapolis area tracked by F.C. Tucker Co totaled 2,219 in July, a 9.7-percent increase over the same month last year. Overall year-to-date sale prices for the nine-county area increased by 2.5 percent, to $154,975.
A controversial downtown Indianapolis apartment building that never opened due to severe design deficiencies is a step closer to being ready for tenants after city officials granted the project’s new owner a zoning variance.
Christian Theological Seminary in Indianapolis has received initial funding for its new Center for Pastoral Excellence through an $8 million grant from the Lilly Endowment.
The Indianapolis Museum of Contemporary Art has removed the "interim" tag from the title of its executive director.
An ordinance that would require new and rebuilt streets in Indianapolis to be designed and constructed with multiple users in mind has been passed by the City-County Council.
Indianapolis-based Calumet plans to acquire a refinery in Great Falls, Mont., that produces gasoline, middle distillates and asphalt for markets in Montana, Idaho, and Alberta, Canada.
Farm issues play a central role in the duties of Indiana's lieutenant governor, who also serves as the state's agriculture secretary.
Indiana pension funds took a temporary hit last year and may not rebound as much as public workers would like, based on long-term economic trends outlined for lawmakers Tuesday.
At a fundraiser for the president at his Westport, Conn., estate recently, Harvey Weinstein spoke in a softly lit room shimmering with pink dahlias, gold Oscars, silvery celebrities and black American Express cards.
It has long seemed to me that there is far more rationality in sports, and in commentaries on sports, than there is in politics and in commentaries on politics.
I was hesitant to weigh in on the Chick-fil-A controversy, but I decided not doing so would be chicken. (Sorry—couldn’t resist.)
In an economic climate that can at best be deemed uncertain, and at worst catatonic, it is critical that the public and private sectors encourage and aid small-business entrepreneurs.
Government, perhaps even more than most private-sector industries and business models, is reliant upon human capital to thrive. Even as the tenor of most modern discourse on government has to do with its size, the people behind it are the single most important element in successful public policy.
I like Michael Bloomberg, the mayor of New York City. He says what he thinks and thinks about what he says.
Everyone loves to say that all politics is local, and it’s largely true that people get the most riled up about things they see or that affect them on a daily basis.
The disagreement between Mayor Ballard and City-County Council Democrats over the use of tax increment financing sounds like a wonky tax policy debate, but behind this conflict are far more fundamental questions of how we use our city’s resources to prepare for its future.