While supporters of big-time college athletics say basketball championships increase sports revenue, stimulate fundraising and encourage student applications, data compiled by Bloomberg News show that not all of that is true, and there’s no guarantee of a lasting effect.
Purdue University is planning to trim its federal lobbying costs and downsize its Washington, D.C., office by cutting ties with an outside lobbying firm.
At a time when sports sponsorships in general and motorsports sponsorships in particular aren’t easy to score, the 72-year-old Speedrome has announced five such pacts in the last month.
Administrators expect the job cuts to save $2.2 million. Other savings will come through a 2-percent tuition increase next fall, a pay freeze and cuts in activities, utilities and services.
Butler University, Creighton and Xavier will join the so-called Catholic 7 schools in the new basketball conference, the schools announced Wednesday. The conference agreed to play its men’s basketball tournament at Madison Square Garden for the next three years.
Andrew R. Klein will replace retiring dean, Gary Roberts, at the Indiana University Robert H. McKinney School of Law in Indianapolis in July.
Purdue University President Mitch Daniels on Monday eliminated merit raises for administrators earning more than $50,000 annually over the next two years in the first in a series of cost-cutting moves to cover the estimated $40 million cost of freezing tuition rates through 2015.
Several people who worked in former Indiana Gov. Mitch Daniels' administration have landed jobs with Ivy Tech Community College, but a school spokesman says there's no mystery about the hires.
A proposed boost in the state's higher education funding is an encouraging step after more than $150 million was cut during the recession, Indiana University's president said Thursday.
Legislative Republicans have defeated a Democratic proposal aimed at preventing a repeat of Purdue University's hiring of Mitch Daniels as its new president while he was still governor.
The Senate Appropriations Committee is examining the state of higher education funding as it continues Indiana's budget deliberations.
Since moving to its current site in 2008, the campus has seen enrollment grow from about 450 students to 1,200.
A bill making its way through Indiana's General Assembly would change the laws governing need-based state financial aid to add more requirements for students.
The mountain of ill will piling up against the NCAA and its CEO, Mark Emmert, threatens to derail some of Emmert’s bold initiatives and could topple Emmert himself.
An engineering executive with experience in the classroom has been named president of Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology. The school's Board of Trustees appointed James C. Conwell its 15th president Monday.
Indiana University's century-old School of Journalism is fighting for its independence after the university's provost proposed merging the school with other communications departments.
The freeze means the cost of basic in-state tuition at Purdue University will remain about $10,000 until the end of the 2014-15 school year.
Although it has not yet withdrawn from the Atlantic 10, Butler University will join the so-called “Catholic 7” in the new conference, according to reports in national media outlets. The school declined to comment on Friday.
Purdue University has hired a former official in Mitch Daniels' gubernatorial administration to lead the Purdue Research Foundation.
The governing body for college sports says that the state is violating the U.S. Constitution by passing a law that confiscates the $60 million sanction imposed against Penn State in the Jerry Sandusky child-abuse case.
