An ode to utility workers
They're some of the most stable people in the state, a new study shows.
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Mind Trust fills leadership positions
The Indianapolis-based not-for-profit has a new president and a vice president of strategic growth initiatives.
Walton charity pledges $1.2M for Indy charters
An Arkansas-based charity, formed by Wal-Mart Stores founder Sam Walton, will run a competition to award grants to five community
organizations that want to start charter schools.
Simon Youth Foundation hires Hetrick to handle national branding, marketing
Simon Youth Foundation, a local not-for-profit, helps at-risk high school students across the country by partnering with local
school systems.
Downstream problems with professionals
Should engineers be required to spend time in repair shops, and architects with the lunch bucket crowd?
LEADING QUESTIONS: Literacy leader pens success story
Indy Reads' Travis DiNicola empowers employees by preaching an entrepreneurial mindset.
The perils of measuring ‘success’
A philanthropy expert thinks donors could unwittingly undermine their dollars and time by insisting on too much documentation.
Scott Jones brings Lemonade Day to Indianapolis kids
Launched in Houston three years ago, Lemonade Day aims to educate children from pre-kindergarten through high school how to
start, own and operate their own small businesses.
School project takes architect to Eastern Europe
Dan Schmidt of Indianapolis-based Schmidt Associates Inc. architecture firm has returned from a trip to Georgia helping to
evaluate school infrastructure there.
Are teachers unions the new UAW?
The Indiana State Teachers Association might shoot itself in the foot in its standoff with the state’s school chief.
Butler University basketball player Jukes supports students in Uganda
Jukes raises money so Ugandan children can attend secondary school through his Jukes Foundation for Kids.
Will Tony Bennett’s school reforms hurt struggling students?
A plan to get more parents interested in their children’s performance in school and reward good teachers might inadvertently strip resources from students who most need the help most.
Where Fong should take Butler next
Butler president should pounce on the outpouring of basketball publicity, former IUPUI chancellor urges.
Are branch-campus degrees as good?
Debating whether stigmas should be attached to sheepskins from university outposts.
A tip for getting into vet school
Like cattle, hogs and other big farm animals? You’re now considered a diversity candidate.
Junior Achievement CEO awaits results of audit
Jennifer Burk, who took the helm in July, wishes she'd asked more questions when she was a board member.
What universities can learn from a steel mill
Steel Dynamics is highly competitive partly because employees are compensated on how much money they save. Should Purdue and
other universities take notice?
Indiana University Foundation lays off 18 staffers
The cuts, both in Bloomington and Indianapolis, come as part of an effort to trim $2.4 million from the fund-raising group’s
$26 million operational budget.
Education by statistics
Inconceivable as it might sound, will the increasing focus on academic performance in public schools give private schools
a run for their money? It wouldn’t be the first time statistics upset an apple cart.
Indy turns architectural corner
A Ball State architect thinks Indianapolis residents will like what they see in the new J.W. Marriott hotel downtown and beat
drums for more interesting buildings.