Education

IU Fort Wayne is now offering automatic admission to students in Fort Wayne Public Schools who have a 2.0 GPA or higher... Read More

The University of Notre Dame has joined Comcast NBCUniversal’s SportsTech, an innovation accelerator for companies merging sports and technology, as the program’s first collegiate partner. The university joins top sports and tech brands globally including the Premier League ...... Read More

Larry Huff was named superintendent of Elkhart Schools in March after serving as chief academic officer of the Metropolitan School District of Pike Township in Indianapolis. He spoke with Inside INdiana Business on his career so far, fostering purposeful...Huff received a bachelor’s in liberal studies from the ...... Read More

One Indiana elementary school is the first in the state to implement four-day school weeks. Students at Vinton Elementary School in Lafayette will add an hour and a half to their school days this year, but they’ll only go to school Monday through Thursday.... Read More

Sherilyn Emberton announced she will retire as president of Huntington University at the end of next school year.... Read More

In an ongoing lawsuit challenging a new law on higher education curriculum, Indiana’s two top universities released a statement Monday separating themselves from the Office of the Attorney General’s arguments.... Read More

Two weeks before the start of the 2024-2025 academic year, the University of Evansville officially opened Lincoln Commons, a student housing apartment complex for juniors and seniors. A ribbon-cutting ceremony for the four-story building was held Aug. 7. ... Read More

Democratic gubernatorial nominee Jennifer McCormick on Monday denounced an ongoing high school diploma redesign as “dismantling” educational rigor in favor of filling positions at Hoosier companies facing worker shortages.... Read More

DePauw University was recently given $32 million from the Lilly Endowment. It plans to work with Greencastle to make major public improvements.... Read More

The Eli Lilly and Company and Purdue University Research Alliance Center, or LPRC, is part of an existing partnership between the two entities that was expanded in 2023.... Read More

A conservative education foundation filed an amicus brief on Thursday in support of a former Brownsburg teacher who was forced to quit his job at a public school after he chose not to use preferred pronouns when identifying transgender students.... Read More

For the second year in a row, students and families won’t have access to the Free Application for Federal Student Aid on Oct. 1, when it’s traditionally released, but federal officials have promised a fully functional form on or before the start of December.... Read More

National developers are ramping up large apartment complexes in college towns as enrollments stay high and university housing remains scare.... Read More

The Indiana Department of Education named 10 finalists for the 2025 teacher of the year award this week.... Read More

The Office of the Indiana Attorney General this week argued a federal judge should dismiss a lawsuit led by university professors and the American Civil Liberties Union of Indiana challenging a state law requiring “intellectual diversity” in the classroom.  The plaintiffs assert that Senate Enrolled Act 202 violates the First and Fourteenth Amendments of the U.S. Constitution. […]... Read More

A former college baseball player is suing the Indianapolis-based NCAA and power conferences, accusing the leagues of wage fixing through scholarship limits. The federal antitrust cases was filed in Colorado this week and seeks class-action status for...... Read More

Anderson University President John Pistole will retire at the end of the 2024-2025 academic year, the university announced Tuesday. Pistole became Anderson’s fifth president in 2015 after serving as head of the Transportation Security Administration under former President Barack Obama. In a statement posted on the university’s website, Pistole called serving as Anderson’s president an […]... Read More

School city of Hammond has finalized a financial plan with the stat's Distressed Unit Appeal Board which features major cuts.... Read More

The Purdue University board of trustees approved a 10-year capital plan designed to guide the university's capital request for the 2025-27 budget. The plan includes funding requests for two major projects on Purdue's West Lafayette and Northwest campuses.... Read More

The Lilly Endowment has approved grants totaling more than $300 million to 13 colleges and universities in Indiana to support community development projects aimed at improving quality of life, the endowment announced Friday afternoon.... Read More