South Bend Schools to Sell Headquarters

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

Stokes Foundation Funds Ball State Scholarships

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

K-12 Student Enrollment Sees Slight Increase

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

Inaugural Leader Named for Evansville Psychiatric Center

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 Touts Pharma Growth

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

$500K Gift to Support PFW School of Polytechnic

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, IU Partner to Keep Grads in Indiana

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

Purdue Equine Hospital to Install Large Gantry CT Machine

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 Teachers Push Back Against School Curriculum Bills

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

Dr. K Wins Entrepreneurial Advocacy Award

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

Purdue Memorial Union Reopens with New Marketplace

Purdue University has reopened the ground floor of the Purdue Memorial Union, now known as the Atlas Family Marketplace, for the start of the spring semester. The marketplace underwent a $47 million renovation that overhauled the 67,000-square-foot space with 12 dining venues.... Read More

IUPUC Hires Inaugural Athletic Director

IUPUC is taking the next step to bringing intercollegiate athletics to the school by hiring Zach McClellan as its first-ever athletic director. The school applied for membership into the National Association of Intercollegiate Athletics in November, which was moved forward to the next step that includes a visit to campus and facilities.... Read More

Grant to Fund Accelerator in Lafayette

Greater Lafayette Commerce says it plans to use a nearly $5 million grant from the Indiana Department of Education to create a new accelerator program. The nonprofit economic and workforce development organization says the program is designed to help students overcome hurdles caused by the pandemic and graduate from high school ready for a career and continued education.... Read More

Wayne Township Board of Ed to Allow Referendum to Expire

The Metropolitan School District of Wayne Township will let its 2015 operational referendum expire. The MSD Wayne Board of Education, which finalized the decision at its meeting earlier this week, says the district was facing a number of financial difficulties when it passed the referendum.... Read More