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
As Indiana considers adopting new high school diploma requirements, education watchers have expressed concerns that private schools will be able to bypass controversial provisions affecting college-level courses and work experience with their own diplomas.... Read More
The National Conference of Bar Examiners announced Thursday the Indiana Supreme Court will begin using the NextGen bar exam in July 2028. Indiana is one of 23 jurisdictions to adopt the new exam that determines whether a person can practice law.... Read More
Indiana's Department of Workforce Development awarded nearly 4,200 high school equivalency degrees in the past two years. ... Read More
Indiana Attorney General Todd Rokita and State Comptroller Elise Nieshalla want IU to show “proof of compliance” with a 2023 state budget law that stripped state funding from the university’s Kinsey Institute for Research in Sex, Gender and Reproduction.... Read More
The NCAA and college sports leaders believe they have found a way through a massive antitrust settlement to finally separate “true NIL" for athletes from booster-funded payments they say are actually pay-for-play or recruiting inducements masquerading as...... Read More
