Athletics Director Fred Glass isn’t just calling an audible, he’s changing the advertising
playbook in Bloomington. Glass, along with his new senior assistant athletics director for marketing, Patrick
Kraft, are upping the ante this football season, with a 67-percent boost in television advertising and 20-percent boost in
the total media buy.
James L. Isch, the NCAA’s long-time chief financial officer, has been named interim president of the association, replacing
Myles Brand, who died last week of pancreatic cancer.
More than $130 million in construction projects will get a chance to move forward after being put on hold over a top lawmaker’s
objections to the schools’ tuition increases.
A little more than six months before the 2010 NCAA men’s Final Four is set to tip off at Lucas Oil Stadium, the NCAA
has not yet finalized a rental deal for the facility. While officials for the NCAA and Local Organizing Committee,
the group charged with operating the event in Indianapolis, downplay any problems, sports business experts say it is unusual
not to have an agreement pinned down in the months leading up to the event.
The U.S. House of Representatives is nearing a vote to push private lenders out of the federal college loan business—a
move that could cost Indiana hundreds of jobs.
Myles Brand was best known as the man who fired Bob Knight and as president of the NCAA, but he left a legacy at Indiana University
much broader than the world of athletics.
Indiana University says it has set a statewide fall semester enrollment record with 5-percent more students than last year.
Purdue University said today that its statewide fall-semester enrollment is up more than 3 percent from last year.
Indianapolis International Airport is looking for a new class of “airport ambassadors,” those helpful volunteers
in the red vests who help passengers and visitors get their bearings.
Purdue University announced today that it has received $105 million from the National Science Foundation to fund a center
to research earthquakes and tsunamis.
Purdue University says it will increase financial aid to certain students to offset this year’s tuition increase.
Indiana University will be offering grants to in-state students starting next year to help lessen the impact of tuition increases.
Ivy Tech Community College plans to save the facade of a historic former hospital along Fall Creek Parkway and build a new
150,000-square-foot academic building behind it.
The Anderson-based Flagship Enterprise Center is on a roll. In the last two months, the small-business incubator
and growth-stage accelerator signed up two new clients: software developers Soveryn Inc. and Coeus Technology.
College Mentors for Kids won $80,000 in products and services from a host of local companies in the Indy Business Makeover
Competition. The winner was selected from among 10 finalists through online voting.
Even as one of Knight’s most ardent critics during the latter half of his tenure at Indiana, I concur with the majority
of opinions expressed on the subject.
Independent Colleges of Indiana has launched a national search for its next CEO after Hans Giesecke left
to lead a college in Greece.
Harrison College, formerly Indiana Business College, hired its first provost and chief academic officer as the for-profit
educator experiences rapid growth.
For a city feverishly growing its technology and life sciences sectors, it seemed a bit anticlimactic last January when
Purdue University dedicated its new technology center with only one tenant. But the lone tenant in the $12.8
million complex, FlamencoNets, a high-tech telecommunications firm, is about to get some company.
In five years, Butler University President Bobby Fong wants to vault his school into the top 10 of the nation’s master’s
universities—schools that offer bachelor’s and master’s degrees but few doctorates.
