Indiana lawmakers on Monday revisited a controversial provision in Senate Bill 199 that would require state officials to scrutinize and potentially eliminate certain low-wage college degree programs offered at Indiana’s public institutions.
Higher education continues to benefit from both quantity and amount when it comes to Indiana donations, according to data submitted to IBJ. Only two of the 13 gifts of $10 million or more did not go to universities and college.
The Indianapolis Recorder Newspaper, one of the longest-running Black publications in the United States, announced on Tuesday its partnership in presenting the HBCU All-Star Game Experience at Corteva Coliseum.
A week after Martin University announced it would “pause operations” at the end of the semester, the university terminated all staff and is encouraging students to transfer to other local colleges.
The move to cease operations comes after a tumultuous year for Martin University. The east-side college is Indiana’s only predominantly Black institution.
Some universities are seeing backslides that have punched big holes in tuition revenue, but overall the falloff is less severe than some industry groups had forecast.
The two colleges account for almost a third of Butler’s total enrollment.
When Horizon League Commissioner Julie Lach first heard the proposal for a new sports law program intended to prepare students for leadership roles in the sports industry, she not only thought it was fantastic, but also that it was a need.
The funding commitment from a DePauw alumnus will fund the construction of a new, 70,000-square-foot athletic stadium and sports performance center.
Backers of the program for students from low-income backgrounds say it can adapt to Indiana’s new emphasis on career and technical education, along with other shifts.
Fry analyzes federal data from 2011 to 2022, highlighting a sharp drop in college attendance among young men, shifting public views on the value of a degree, and rising wages for workers without one.
In raw numbers, 72,419 more girls than boys who graduated from Indiana high schools from 2009 to 2023 went on to higher education, according to the Indiana Commission for Higher Education’s College Going Dashboard.
Sean Huddleston was appointed the fifth president of the Predominantly Black Institution in 2019 and received a 10-year contract extension in 2022.
In contrast, Purdue University placed second overall. DePauw University also ranked in the top 20 nationally.
Students will actively participate in due diligence, deal sourcing, portfolio analysis and angel investor communication as a way to gain real-world exposure to early-stage investing, the university said.
The 27,000-square-foot, two-story building at 518-520 Indiana Ave. is being outfitted as a student center ahead of the start of the university’s fall semester.
The University of Indianapolis is launching a program this month to prepare nurse practitioners, long a fixture in primary care exam rooms, to care for complex and critically ill patients in hospitals.
Nearly all of the eliminated degree programs had zero enrollment, officials said.
Officials in states including Indiana, Florida, Ohio, Texas, Iowa and Idaho increasingly have focused on university governance—rules for who picks university presidents and boards and how much control they exert over curriculums and faculty tenure.
More than 81,000 Indiana high school students took the test in 2024-25.
