Education

A project by students at Manchester Junior-Senior High School has been selected for a trip into space as part of NASA’s “TechRise Student Challenge.... Read More

Goshen College will launch a new program in the fall of 2022 that the school says will increase college access and affordability for Indiana students. ... Read More

Franciscan Health Rensselaer is partnering with Appleseed Childhood Education to address the shortage of licensed childcare providers in Jasper County. The Mishawaka-based health system says it is leasing a building on its Rensselaer hospital campus to the nonprofit, which will use it to open a licensed early learning center.... Read More

The state's largest school district has launched an initiative designed to recruit and retain more educators with a focus on diversity. The "Proving What's Possible" initiative features two programs, including an apprenticeship program for teachers and a residency for principals. ... Read More

The South Bend Community School Corporation is in negotiations to sell its six-story headquarters to the city of South Bend for $2.8 million. School district administrators say the building, which was purchased in 2004, has more space than the district needs.... Read More

Ball State University students studying to become K-12 math and art teachers who have financial difficulties will be eligible for new scholarships from the William and Evelyn Stokes Foundation. The Stokes Foundation reached an agreement with the Ball State University Foundation to give $1 million in scholarships over the next four years.... Read More

Several Indiana colleges and universities are included in the 2022 Best Online Programs rankings from U.S. News & World Report. The rankings were split into several categories, including MBA, Business - non-MBA, and Bachelor's.... Read More

A bill that would have continued state control of Gary Community School Corp appears to have stalled in the Indiana General Assembly... Read More

The Indiana Department of Education says the state is seeing a modest increase in enrollment in its public and accredited non-public K-12 schools. The number of students for the 2021-2022 academic year totaled 1.12 million.... Read More

Indiana teachers and others are mounting opposition to a House bill that Republican lawmakers say would increase transparency of school curricula, even after Senate leaders decided to effectively abandon their version of the legislation.... Read More

Western Governors University Indiana Chancellor Alison Bell says the institution was “built for the pandemic,” even though the online school was founded more than two decades before the onset of COVID-19... Read More

The Indiana University School of Medicine has selected Dr. Stephen Strakowski as the inaugural executive director of its new psychiatry center for children and adolescents in Evansville. Strakowski currently serves as vice dean of research and associate vice president for regional mental health at the University of Texas at Austin Dell Medical School.... Read More

Manchester University in northern Indiana launched the country's first pharmacogenomics program in 2016 and just five years later, the program has grown tenfold. The master's degree program, which began with just eight students, involves the study of the influence of a person's genetics in how they respond to medications. Dr. David Kisor, director of pharmacogenomics at Manchester, says the program has found global appeal and led to more programs being developed across the country.... Read More

Purdue University Fort Wayne is investing nearly $1 million, including a $500,000 gift from the Don Wood Foundation, to update robotic and manufacturing technology in its school of polytechnic. The university says its a "transformational opportunity" that will help increase its graduates who join the fields of robotics, advanced manufacturing, and machining.... Read More

Purdue University and Indiana University are teaming up in an effort to boost the state's talent pipeline by keeping more graduates in Indiana. The schools have partnered with Ascend Indiana with the goal of connecting students with in-state career opportunities more effectively, as well as... Read More

The Caesars Entertainment Equine Specialty Hospital in Shelbyville, a satellite facility of Purdue University's College of Veterinary Medicine, is installing a specialized CT machine capable of scanning large anatomies. Purdue says the hospital will be one of the first in the country to utilize the large gantry helical CT scanning machine.... Read More

Indiana Wesleyan University has named a new chancellor to lead its online national and global campus. IWU ... Read More

Martin University Board of Trustees members have announced a 10-year contract extension for President Sean Huddleston. He has held the role since March 2019 and is the fifth president in the university's history.... Read More

A controversial Indiana bill that Republican lawmakers contend would increase transparency around school curricula has drawn opposition from dozens of teachers who testified Monday at the Statehouse that the legislation would censor classroom instruction and place unnecessary additional workloads on educators.... Read More

An Indiana University Kelley School of Business professor has received the highest honor presented by the United States Association for Small Business and Entrepreneurship. Donald Kuratko, who is also executive director of the Johnson Center for Entrepreneurship and Innovation, was awarded the Max S. Wortman/USASBE Lifetime Achievement Award for Entrepreneurship.... Read More