The Purdue University College of Education has launched a program it says will help address the teacher shortage in Indiana and benefit students who decide to become teachers late in their undergraduate studies. The Boilermaker Track to Teaching gives Purdue juniors and seniors a path to obtaining an Indiana Secondary teaching license that didn't previously exist. ... Read More
The University of Southern Indiana says it has accepted an invitation to join the Ohio Valley Conference as it looks to move to Division I athletics. The university says the partnership will allow it to submit a formal bid for reclassification in the NCAA ahead of the June 1 deadline.... Read More
Indiana University's board of trustees has approved the architectural design for the IU School of Medicine's new Medical Education Building in Indianapolis. IU says the 11-story, 325,000-square-foot facility will be used to address instructional and research needs of programs.... Read More
The Indiana University Board of Trustees has approved increases in room and board rates for several of its campuses. The university says the increases for the 2022-23 academic year are smallest in more than a decade.... Read More
The University of Southern Indiana will Wednesday announce its Division I conference affiliation. The university says the affiliation is the next step before it can make a formal bid to the NCAA to move to Division I athletics.... Read More
The Purdue University Board of Trustees has approved $20 million for a new phenotyping greenhouse facility. Additionally, the board approved new metrics to measure President Mitch Daniels' performance for the 2021-2022 fiscal year.... Read More
More than two dozen first-generation Indiana college students have received $3,000 scholarships from Independent Colleges of Indiana... Read More
IUPUI's School of Engineering and Technology has been awarded a five-year $300,000 grant from the U.S. Economic Development Administration. The university says the funding will be used to develop the Initiative for Electrified and Autonomous Mobility University Center.... Read More
Philanthropist MacKenzie Scott has donated $800,000 to Communities in Schools of Indiana, an organization that supports student success in school and beyond. CIS of Indiana says the funding will enable it to expand its impact in schools struggling to fund the needs of children.... Read More
IUPUI is one of eight recipients of the National Science Foundation's CyberCorps Scholarship for Service program. The university says it will use the $3.7 million grant to train undergraduate and graduate students in cybersecurity engineering to help the U.S. respond to national security needs.... Read More
A judge in Hamilton County has ruled a lawsuit against two former Indiana online charter schools, as well as individuals and companies linked to them, can continue, according to our partners at WFYI. The $154 million lawsuit alleges Indiana Virtual School and Indiana Virtual Pathways Academy received millions of dollars from the state after inflating student enrollment numbers.... Read More
The Indiana Family and Social Services Administration has released the results of two studies on the state's On My Way Pre-K program. The program, which launched in 2015, provides grants to low-income families to help provide access to high-quality pre-K programs for their children.... Read More
The University of Evansville has awarded substantial scholarships to several Indiana high school students as part of UE’s High School Changemaker Challenge... Read More
Indiana lawmakers are moving forward with a series of contentious Republican-backed bills that they say would increase transparency of K-12 school curricula and restrict students from accessing “harmful materials” at libraries.... Read More
Purdue University Northwest alumnus David Roberts and wife Susan Roberts have donated $3 million for a planned Impact Lab. The university says the Roberts Impact Lab at PNW will be a workspace for entrepreneurship, innovation and education collaboration.... Read More
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
