$32M student housing project proposed near White River
Annex Student Living LLC wants to build a six-story, 248-unit apartment building along West 10th Street on a four-acre parcel the company has agreed to buy.
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New workforce thrust aims to boost Indy tech expertise
Businesses and other employers can anticipate more technologically literate college graduates—and see their existing employees raise their tech game—if a new program pans out.
Corinthian students steered to other schools under investigation
Corinthian Colleges students, whose schools closed this week amid fraud allegations, are being steered by the U.S. Education Department to other for-profit chains also under investigation for similar misbehavior, including Carmel-based ITT Educational.
For-profit college operator Corinthian calls it quits
Corinthian Colleges Inc.—which once competed with the country’s biggest for-profit education companies, including Carmel-based ITT Educational Services—shut down its remaining 28 schools Monday, essentially completing the biggest collapse in U.S. higher education.
New NCAA exec puts transfer rules on priority list
The NCAA's new vice president for Division I governance said there are growing concerns among the division’s 345 members over the surging number of students switching schools.
ITT goes after new federal agency with guns blazing
ITT Educational Services Inc. was unable to get a federal judge to dismiss a predatory-lending lawsuit filed by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, so now it is taking its request to an appeals court.
Emmert: Freshman ineligibility problematic, worth debating
NCAA President Mark Emmert is glad the Big Ten Conference has sparked a discussion about freshman ineligibility, even though it is an idea fraught with potential pitfalls.
Students learn important secrets behind cyber forensics
Digital forensics students take a rigorous course load that includes criminology, policing, criminal evidence, criminal law, computer science, computer security, digital forensics and geographic information systems.
Princeton loses appeal in case sparked by Lilly drug loyalties
Four residents of the town of Princeton sued to revoke the university’s tax exemption, in part because it shares royalties with faculty, mostly from a patent that Indianapolis-based Eli Lilly and Co. turned into the cancer drug Alimta.
Rolls-Royce plans massive modernization of aging plant
The defense contractor is on the cusp of investing hundreds of millions of dollars to modernize its Tibbs Avenue factory, Rolls-Royce officials revealed Tuesday at IBJ's aviation and aerospace event.
Judge delays decision on NCAA concussion settlement
A U.S. judge has declined to immediately approve the NCAA’s $75 million settlement of a lawsuit by college athletes who’ve suffered head injuries, giving a critic of the accord three weeks to file arguments opposing the revamped deal.
Ball State architecture program holding its own
Years after the Great Recession battered construction, and consequently the architecture profession, the state’s largest architecture program survived by pitching itself as a top-flight school.
New concussions deal with NCAA proposed
Filings in U.S. District Court in Chicago late Tuesday night notified a federal judge that there was a new proposed settlement for a head injury lawsuit against the NCAA brought by football players and other college athletes.
Dorsey launches not-for-profit focused on tech jobs
Former ExactTarget CEO Scott Dorsey on Monday launched Nextech, which aims to close the widening gap between technology jobs and qualified candidates for those jobs.
Attorney General says Ball State is not alone in ID theft
The 140 faculty and staff at Ball State make up just a portion of victims of such attacks targeting university employees across the country.
FBI, Anthem staff to visit Ball State after identity thefts
Staffers from the FBI and the Indiana attorney general's office will be among experts to visit Ball State University after at least 140 school employees' identities were stolen.
Decisions ahead for NCAA family travel program
Getting to the Final Four won't be as costly for the parents of many players this week, thanks to an NCAA pilot program that is helping pay for families of athletes to travel to Indianapolis.
Colleges getting out of health insurance business
The main driver of colleges getting out of the insurance business is a provision in the Affordable Care Act that prevents students from using premium tax subsidies to purchase insurance from their college or university.
IU law school gets $20M gift from Class of ’64 alum
Indiana University Maurer School of Law in Bloomington will use the estate gift to enhance facilities and the school’s long-term renovation and expansion.
Former TSA chief learning the ropes as university president
Three weeks into his tenure at Anderson University, John Pistole is embarked on a crash course about how to be a university president and is relishing the challenge.