Mitch Daniels

IBJ Podcast: Mitch Daniels on bringing Purdue biz programs to downtown Indy; plus AI, Social Security

March 30, 2026 | Mason King

The former Indiana governor and president of Purdue University also addresses one of the biggest political, academic and economic debates of the last decade: What is the value of a college degree?

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Mickey Kim: Moody’s downgrade points to looming U.S. debt calamity

June 12, 2025 | Mickey Kim

Moody’s, S&P Global Ratings and Fitch Ratings are the three primary credit rating agencies for corporate and government borrowers. Moody’s was actually the last CRA to strip the United States of its highest credit rating.

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Mickey Kim: Mitch Daniels, still the epitome of servant leadership, foresees crisis

May 16, 2025 | Mickey Kim

Says former Gov. Mitch Daniels: “If [tariffs are] the way of getting the attention of trading partners, … then I can understand it. All I can say is, if that’s the game, then it better work fast.”

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Michael A. Carroll Award winner: Daniels still aiming higher, no matter the role

November 10, 2023 | Lesley Weidenbener

Thinking big and inspiring others to do so as well has been Mitch Daniels’ hallmark through five decades in business, public service and higher education.

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Pacers communications exec Danny Lopez to run for Indiana House

October 5, 2023 | Peter Blanchard

Lopez is running on the Republican ticket for House District 39, which includes portions of Carmel and Westfield.

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Purdue names reimagined business school after Mitch Daniels

February 3, 2023 | Alex Brown, Inside INdiana Business

Purdue Board of Trustees Chair Mike Berghoff said the university will invest a minimum of $100 million to relaunch the school under the new name. A $200 million fundraising campaign will also be implemented.

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Mitch Daniels decides not to run for U.S. Senate

January 31, 2023 | IBJ Staff

The announcement ended speculation that he would jump into the race after sitting Sen. Mike Braun decided to run for governor.

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Beverly Gard: Beltway-based group is wrong about Mitch Daniels

January 20, 2023 | Beverly Gard

The Indiana U.S. Senate race is almost two years away, and already, an outside D.C.-based group is trying to pick our Republican candidate.

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Super PAC takes aim at Mitch Daniels over possible Senate bid

January 13, 2023 | Leslie Bonilla Muñiz, Indiana Capital Chronicle

Prominent national conservative organization Club for Growth hopes to keep two-term Indiana governor and former Purdue University President Mitch Daniels out of a new race for U.S. Senate with a blistering new ad.

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Purdue sees big Indianapolis expansion potential from IUPUI revamp

August 12, 2022 | Susan Orr

Purdue, which now has about 5,000 students at IUPUI’s campus, hopes to expand Indianapolis enrollment by at least 1,000 once Purdue begins operating its programs here under its own name.

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Purdue, IU agree to split IUPUI campus, with both planning growth, stronger Indianapolis identities

August 12, 2022 | John Russell

The move is intended to drive growth in enrollment, research and particularly prestige, in part by eliminating the school’s tongue-twisting name. Purdue intends to grow its presence in Indianapolis as well.

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Breaking down the IUPUI changes announced Friday

August 12, 2022 | John Russell

For 52 years, IUPUI has existed as a sort of marriage between Indiana University and Purdue University. As they shift that relationship, here’s what we know about what will change and what will stay the same.

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Mitch Daniels stepping down as president of Purdue University

June 10, 2022 | IBJ Staff and Associated Press

Daniels will be replaced by the university’s dean of engineering and executive vice president for strategic initiatives, the university announced.

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Nate Feltman: Daniels’ action-oriented approach endures through foundation

July 16, 2021 | Nate Feltman

The work of one of the foundation’s fellows has brought the Dolly Parton’s Imagination Library to Indiana.

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Mitch Daniels foundation, Elevate Ventures partner on entrepreneurial effort

February 12, 2021 | Anthony Schoettle

The new partnership is designed to give Hoosiers that graduate from the two-year fellowship an opportunity to gain guidance and potentially access capital to propel their ideas into the commercial realm.

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Mitch Daniels: Beware of the pandemic of second-guessing

May 15, 2020 | Mitch Daniels / Special to IBJ

I’m worried about preventing a sickness, one we’ve been through before—much more recently than the last pandemic flu.

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Mitch Daniels: Kids can’t write. Parents, this is your chance to help.

April 17, 2020 | Mitch Daniels / Special to IBJ

Even in a course fully subscribed by students from our Honors College, a class full of future doctors, business executives, computer engineers and the like, the quality of written expression was almost uniformly—sorry to choose this word—pathetic.

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Mitch Daniels: Scraps of good news amid coronavirus concerns

April 3, 2020 | Mitch Daniels / Special to IBJ

Across the economy, private and not-for-profit enterprises are going to discover which works of theirs, and which expenditures, are really essential.

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Mitch Daniels: There’s plenty that’s fishy about fight against salmon

February 21, 2020 | Mitch Daniels / Special to IBJ

Ultimately, the worst damage of anti-science lies in its opportunity costs. Because they are not yet apparent to ordinary citizens, such costs do not generate an outcry commensurate with the harms they impose.

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MITCH DANIELS: The values learned on the farm are important for all

June 19, 2019

Successive revolutions in mechanization, horticulture and biotechnology have been an enormous blessing, enabling a tiny percentage of Americans—today fewer than 2%—to feed the rest of us and much of the world.

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