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For-profit education firm denies lawsuit charges
Education Management Corp., which operates two schools in Indianapolis, has asked a judge to throw out a Department of Justice lawsuit that claims it used improper sales tactics to lure unqualified students and the billions of dollars in financial aid they bring.
UIndy president retiring at end of school year
Beverly Pitts, the university’s eighth president, announced on Monday that she will retire at the end of the academic year, ending seven years leading the private college.
Purdue panel wants online input for president hunt
Purdue is opening up the search for a successor to France Cordova through an online survey.
Cook family provides funding for Rose-Hulman bioscience lab
The $500,000 gift will help further a decade-long expansion of the school’s life sciences curriculum.
IU, Crane form education partnership
Indiana University and the Crane Naval Surface Warfare Center signed an agreement to collaborate in areas including cybersecurity, computing and economic development.
Report: Completion rates woefully low at public colleges
Of every 100 Hoosiers who enter two- or four-year public colleges in Indiana, only 39 graduate, even when given four years to complete a two-year degree and eight years to complete a four-year degree.
Chinese aluminum firm gives Purdue $10 million grant
The grant from Nanshan Group Co. Ltd. will provide $2 million each year for the next five years.
IU launches $250K student biz-plan competition
A group of 10 investors created a $1.1 million fund to support $250,000 in annual prize money to Indiana University students in Bloomington who submit the best business plans for an Internet or software company.
Foreign student enrollment hits record at Purdue
The university had 7,934 international students enrolled this month. That’s up 17.3 percent from last year and nearly 45 percent from 2008.
Ivy Tech to open satellite campus at airport
Ivy Tech Community College will lease 19,615 square feet at the former ATA Airlines campus at Indianapolis International Airport for a logistics and business education program.
U.S. student-loan default rates jump sharply
The national two-year default rate rose to 8.8 percent last year, from 7 percent in fiscal 2008, according to the Department of Education. Driving the increase was an especially sharp increase among students who borrow from the government to attend for-profit colleges.
Authors Guild sues universities over online books
Authors and authors' groups sued the University of Michigan, Indiana University and three other universities Monday, seeking to stop the creation of online libraries made up of as many as 7 million copyright-protected books they say were scanned without authorization.
Class in Hoosier hospitality launched for Super Bowl
The class is being launched Oct. 3 with the goal of getting tens of thousands of front-line hospitality workers—from hoteliers, caterers and restaurant servers to cab drivers and airport employees—prepared for the barrage of Super Bowl visitors coming in February.
Indiana lawmakers say tuition hikes hard on families
Republican and Democratic budget leaders bemoaned that in-state tuition jumped from an average of 12 percent of Hoosiers' incomes in 2000 to expectations it will account for 19 percent of average income by 2013.
IUPUI enrolls record number of foreign students
For the first time, more than 300 of IUPUI's students have come from one country, China, the university said Thursday as it announced record enrollment of international students for the fall semester.
Indiana University system reaches record enrollment
School officials say that 108,041 students enrolled for the first day of fall semester classes at its eight campuses around the state.
Ivy Tech fall semester enrollment tops 113,000
Ivy Tech Community College says it has set a fall semester enrollment record with more than 113,000 students taking classes at its campuses across Indiana.
IU research spending tops $500M for first time
The school said it spent $509 million on faculty research projects during the fiscal year that ended June 30, up 7 percent from a year earlier.
Harrison College taps social media to help online students
The for-profit school formerly known as the Indiana Business College has overhauled its online interface.