Smaller class sizes. School buses. Low-cost preschool. These are some of the things that eleven Indiana districts are hoping to fund via property tax increases that voters will consider in the November election.... Read More
Though financially viable, the Mendoza program will be discontinued at the end of the school year, university officials say, to focus on two-year programs.... Read More
Vincennes University will announce a new partnership Thursday afternoon meant to expand aviation education and career opportunities and support growth at the Indianapolis International Airport. ... Read More
Dozens of individual and team inductees into Purdue University Northwest's Society of Innovators will be recognized next week.... Read More
Indiana lawmakers on Tuesday reviewed the results of a “first-of-its-kind” request of higher education cost and debt data — and found it lacking.... Read More
Purdue University Fort Wayne has enrolled its largest group of first-year international students with 182 from 22 countries. Overall, the campus has 499 international students from 62 countries. Of that total, 334 are graduate students and 165 undergrads. ... Read More
Gyeong Mee Yoon, an associate professor of botany and plant pathology, is researching how two different biochemical pathways, biosynthesis and signaling of the ethylene hormone play into how plants respond to stressors like drought, severe heat and cold. There may be a link between independent cellular signaling pathways of ethylene biosynthesis and autophagy.... Read More
A new Purdue Broadband Team, announced Monday, will work with local communities across Indiana to determine where better broadband access is needed and what tools residents and businesses need to deploy internet services.... Read More
Pocket, band and orchestra catalog and teaching platform, was awarded $10,000 in pre-seed funding from the Flywheel Fund. Integrate School, which is a curriculum and lesson building software, was the seed winner and received $20,000. ... Read More
The nonpartisan educational center received the cooperative agreement award from the Department of Defense award through its National Defense Education Program’s Civil Society program that supports programs improving and innovating civics education. It will work with several other schools to develop and pilot a new VR tool called "Democracy Quest.”... Read More
The Purdue University Board of Trustees on Friday approved a list of performance metrics on which President Mung Chiang will be measured for the 2023-24 fiscal year. Additionally, the board approved a contract extension for Director of Athletics Mike Bobinski.... Read More
The University of Saint Francis has received a $2.1 million federal grant it says will be used to create new opportunities for students to thrive in higher education. The five-year grant will support the Fort Wayne-based university's Project Catalyst.... Read More
Purdue Northwest joins IU and Purdue's flagship West Lafayette campus in earning the designation from the Association of Public and Land-Grant Universities.... Read More
Indiana’s education officials on Wednesday raised alarms about high rates of chronic absenteeism across the state.... Read More
Three residence hall projects on Notre Dame's campus are expected to increase student housing by nearly 450 beds.... Read More
The Indiana Department of Workforce Development honored 17 adult education providers in its inaugural Indiana Adult Education Programs of Excellence to honor those who excel beyond state goals in performance metrics.... Read More
A Purdue University College of Veterinary Medicine program seeking to address the national shortage of veterinarians was given a big boost recently after the federal Health Resources and Services Administration renewed a $3.2 million grant.... Read More
Indiana State University President Deborah Curtis announced Wednesday afternoon she will retire in 2024 at the end of the current academic year. In a news release, Curtis called serving as president a "tremendous privilege and honor."... Read More
The NCAA Division I Council on Wednesday approved a smaller window during which football and basketball players can enter their names into the transfer portal and retain immediate eligibility for the following season from 60 to 45 days.... Read More
The university recorded a 41% increase in Latino student enrollment and saw its number of nursing students grow by 50% this fall.... Read More
