According to the Chronicle for Higher Education’s database from the summer of 2024, the raise brings Whitten to the fifth highest-paid university president in the Big Ten.
The sweeping demand threatens to upend all aspects of campus operations, from questions on college applications to classroom lessons and campus clubs.
Indiana University Indianapolis received Research 1, or R1, status from the Carnegie Classification of Institutions of Higher Education. It’s now the second IU campus to hold the designation.
A lawsuit, filed Tuesday in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Indiana, argues that the decision violates the First Amendment rights of plaintiff Pride Center of Terre Haute, Inc.
Ivy Tech President Sue Ellspermann said the decision was a proactive move to protect funding amid federal orders and state legislation targeting diversity, equity and inclusion efforts.
Two of Indiana’s top research universities are partaking in a four-way alliance that organizers that allows members to work on microelectronics projects using one another’s facilities and resources.
Experts say it will likely take a few years before the impacts of the Supreme Court decision fully shake out, especially given other factors that could have affected enrollment this year, like the shaky rollout of a new federal aid platform.
“Lexia: An AI Opera” was created in collaboration with the AI-powered tool Avatar, developed by IU Indianapolis faculty members Scott Deal and Jason Palamara.
Indiana’s public universities are seeking millions of dollars for capital projects, but the state’s Commission for Higher Education wants lawmakers to concentrate funding in the next budget cycle on deferred-maintenance projects.
The program is part of an ecosystem of higher education institutions ramping up programs to meet the state’s future needs.
The university’s leaders are hard at work laying the groundwork to make South Korean chip manufacturer SK Hynix’s U.S. expansion in West Lafayette a success.
The Media Arts and Science Research Learning Arcade, or MARLA, at Indiana University Indianapolis has an ever-growing collection of some 550 vintage video games and 20 gaming consoles.
The professor-led lawsuits allege the state policies are unconstitutionally vague and infringe upon faculty members’ free speech and academic freedom.
“Rust Red Hills” by the famed modernist painter is estimated to be worth as much as $15 million.
The estate of Jack “J.J.” and Mary Kaye Ott, who met as students at the school, donated the sum.
A federal judge on Wednesday dismissed a lawsuit alleging the state’s new university “intellectual diversity” requirements are unconstitutionally vague, and declined to issue a preliminary injunction blocking enforcement of the new law.
John Pistole became Anderson’s fifth president in 2015 after serving as head of the Transportation Security Administration and deputy director of the FBI.
The five-year implementation grants range from $12.1 million to $32 million each, with DePauw University in Greencastle landing the largest grant.
Indiana Attorney General Todd Rokita and State Comptroller Elise Nieshalla requested the university share how it “ceased utilizing Hoosier taxpayer dollars to fund the Institute” and “the measures employed to ensure compliance with the law going forward.”
Butler, which worked with TechPoint to create the program, said students will typically graduate in 18 months to two years with a bachelor’s of science degree in organizational leadership.
