A long-awaited bill to require Indiana school districts to share property tax dollars with charter schools has attracted attention and scrutiny from groups that disagree about which schools should benefit from public funding.... Read More
Trine University continues to see increases in enrollment. The university says its recently completed official spring enrollment topped 9,000 for the first time in its history.... Read More
Franklin College has dedicated its Center for Tech Innovation on campus. The college says the CTI serves as the hub for its newly-created digital fluency initiative, providing collaboration and workspace for students, faculty and staff.... Read More
The Dean and Barbara White Family Foundation is committing $50 million for the undergraduate institute at the Daniels School of Business at Purdue University. The commitment will serve as the lead gift to the business school's reorganization.... Read More
The Indiana Department of Education has announced recipients of the newly-established Comprehensive School Counseling Grant. Twenty six school districts and charter schools received a total of $5 million to further develop and expand school counseling services and resources.... Read More
The Indiana Next Generation Manufacturing Competitiveness Center, or IN-MaC, is partnering with Ivy Tech Community College Lafayette to launch an initiative creating a high school-to-career pathway for students in Montgomery and Boone counties. ... Read More
The LaPorte Community School Corp. says there are no plans to tear down a beloved baseball field used by LaPorte High School. The future of Schreiber Field was called into question as the district considered the possibility of building a new fieldhouse.... Read More
Goshen College is expanding its Transition to Teaching program with the addition of an online evening track. The college says the decision to expand the program comes amid the current teacher shortage.... Read More
A bill in the Indiana Senate would significantly expand a state law that requires school districts to make their empty buildings available to charter schools.... Read More
University of Evansville Associate Professor Dr. Su Jin Jeong is being awarded a $450,000 grant from the Indiana Department of Health to help combat food insecurity and obesity in Vanderburgh County.... Read More
The Questa Education Foundation in Fort Wayne on Tuesday announced a partnership with Warsaw-based Bowen Center. The agreement aims to support current and future Bowen employees looking to continue their education with forgivable loan opportunities.... Read More
Ball State University, through its new non-credit division Lifetime Learning, is joining tech talent accelerator SkillStorm in an effort to provide students with access to courses and credentials needed for high-demand tech careers.... Read More
Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology is establishing a scholarship fund support women students thanks to a $500,000 donation from Cindy Thomas Kalkomey and Kurt Kalkomey. The couple says the donation was made in memory of Cindy’s father.... Read More
Indianapolis Public Schools will implement only part of its massive Rebuilding Stronger plan after the school board failed to place an operating referendum on the May ballot. Superintendent Aleesia Johnson called the postponement “an unfortunate delay.”... Read More
A new survey from INvestEd shows while nearly 90% of Hoosiers see value in postsecondary education, a majority find understanding the full process of paying for college to be difficult. The nonprofit polled more than 1,700 residents throughout the state.... Read More
A 14-year veteran of the University of Wisconsin System has been named chancellor of IU Southeast. Pending approval by the IU Board of Trustees, Deborah Ford will lead the campus in New Albany, succeeding Kelly Ryan, who is serving as interim chancellor.... Read More
The Indiana University Board of Trustees announced several approvals Friday. Among them are a project to double capacity at the IU School of Nursing at IUPUI and an increase in on-campus residence hall rates.... Read More
The Purdue University Board of Trustees on Friday approved naming its reimagined business school after former President Mitch Daniels. The university is reorganizing the school into what will now be known as the Mitchell E. Daniels Jr. School of Business.... Read More
Purdue University is awarding nearly $150,000 to researchers from its College of Agriculture and College of Engineering to help bring their ideas to life. The awards are available through Purdue's Trask Innovation Fund, managed by the Purdue Research Foundation Office of Technology Commercialization, and intend to make the recipient's work more attractive for commercial use.... Read More
Ivy Tech Community College has released a three-year strategic plan which will serve as a roadmap for the institution as it addresses the need for training in advanced manufacturing, nursing and other growing industries... Read More
