President Myles Brand died after a battle with pancreatic cancer. He is remembered for firing Indiana University basketball
coach Bob Knight, but he later became hailed as a reformer as head of the NCAA.
The Indiana Commission for Higher Education said state colleges and universities need to find new ways to be efficient—without
new tuition hikes—to cope with spending cuts ordered by Gov. Mitch Daniels.
The Indiana Commission for Higher Education says state colleges and universities should find new ways to be efficient—without
raising tuition—to meet spending cuts ordered by Gov. Mitch Daniels.
The Indiana Commission for Higher Education hopes to present recommendations for cutting state spending for colleges and universities
to Gov. Mitch Daniels by Tuesday or Wednesday.
Universities searching for ways to cut $150 million say they’re looking at all options, including eliminating some sports
or even academic majors.
The Indiana Board of Education plans to give school districts a list of options on how they can collectively cut at least
$300 million from state spending.
The university said Wednesday it will see about $1 billion in savings over the next decade as a result of the continuing university-wide
cost-containment effort.
Ivy Tech Community College says it will offer "moonlight madness" classes at its downtown Indianapolis campus this
spring semester, which begins Jan. 11.
Gov. Mitch Daniels said Tuesday he will cut state spending on public schools by at least $300 million given a new revenue
forecast.
Its education focus just might make the endowment more of a jobs engine than the Indiana Economic Development Corp.
Indiana University, which has received nearly $600 million from the endowment over the last three decades, will leverage the
new gift to increase its
scientific discoveries and commercialize life science innovations.
Muncie plans to turn out most of its street lights to keep from going broke. But what about the social consequences?
The Eli Lilly and Co. Foundation has given Indiana University $1 million to start a school of public health at Indiana University-Purdue
University Indianapolis.
The plan to nationalize the federal student loan program threatens to force Sallie Mae
to hack its network of 26 offices down to five. Yet the company’s Indiana operations have several advantages that could
help weather the cuts.
The Safe Routes to School program “aims to influence a new generation of healthy, sustainable travel
behavior,” says INDOT.
Sheela Yadav, a supply chain and engineering management expert, has been interim dean since July 2008.
The Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology’s board of trustees have elected interim school president Matt Branam the college’s
new full-time president.
IU trustees have approved a contract extension for school president Michael McRobbie.
Ivy Tech Community College is offering at-risk students a chance to earn an associate’s degree in just 10 months instead of
two years.
The Innovate Indiana Fund will invest $5 million over the next five years to commercialize IU technologies and another
$5 million to help IU-affiliated startups get off the ground.
