A report from a charter school sponsor trade group recommends closing charters that rank in the bottom 15 percent of their state's standardized test scores. Under that standard, 10 of Ball State's 38 charter schools would be closed.
Purdue wants a football team that can get to the Rose Bowl, and decided Danny Hope was not the coach to take it there. Replacement names already percolating include Northern Illinois’ Dave Doeren, Illinois State’s Brock Spack and Ball State’s Pete Lembo.
Ball State University is weighing plans for a sorority village that would house the growing number of women who want to be part of the school's Greek community.
Ball State University's year-old campaign to recruit students from New Jersey will bring just a handful of Garden State freshmen to the Muncie campus this year, but officials say they are looking long-term.
Ball State University's trustees have approved plans for a $4.6 million planetarium that school officials say will become the largest in Indiana.
A new law denying state grants for college education to prison inmates has cost the jobs of more than 70 Ball State University employees.
Ball State University trustees have approved a 3.5-percent increase in salary funding for faculty and professional staff.
Ball State University plans to build a $25 million hotel in a building that will also have student-housing space, conference rooms and two restaurants.
Ball State University's president is blaming "incredibly unsympathetic" state legislators for the school's low ranking on faculty salaries.
After the recession forced a freeze in its professors’ pay, IU’s flagship Bloomington campus boosted faculty salaries roughly 6 percent this year, vaulting its top professors’ pay past Purdue’s professors.
The governor included the measure as part of his final legislative agenda saying that he was concerned that college degrees were becoming too expensive.
Eventually, the system will heat and cool 5.5 million square feet of buildings and save $2 million a year in operating costs.
In Actors Theatre of Indiana’s production, the apostles aren’t blank slates to write on but, rather, people who have experienced life.
New program is making progress in volatile countries.
Twenty-seven percent of Hoosiers support a law allowing employees to join unionized workplaces without being forced to pay union dues. But 24 percent oppose it and 48 percent are still undecided, according to a new survey.
In 1993, only 3.8 percent of Hoosier adults had full-blown diabetes, compared with 9.8 percent today.
A university spokeswoman said she had been misinformed when she earlier reported that officials had not been purchasing the domain names.
Fall Creek and Fountain Square academies could be forced to close in May after Ball State University declined their applications this week.
Ball State University said Tuesday it will offer $500 scholarships to students on track to graduate within four years and take other steps that could save some students as much as $10,000 over the course of their college careers.
Nearly four of five students received A’s in Indiana University education classes in 2010-2011, but education deans at IU and other universities say grading is approached differently than in other schools, such as math.
