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DOUG ROSS: Colleges need more state support
Ivy Tech Community College has merged the large northwest and north central regions in a cost-cutting move. The university has a nearly $60 million funding gap, according to Ivy Tech President Thomas Snyder.
GUEST COMMENTARY: The cost of not completing college
Indiana has one of the most generous college financial aid systems in the country, spending more than $280 million on need-based grants and scholarships in the past year alone. Unfortunately, the hard truth is that far too many Hoosiers start college and never finish, and most do not graduat…
Richard Lugar's next chapter: A Q&A with Indiana's longest-serving U.S. senator
WASHINGTON | Richard Lugar takes a seat at a well-worn circular conference table. In an office filled with shiny, new fixtures, it's a notable relic from his 36-year career in the Senate.
Ind. budget panel takes first step on winding road to state spending plan
INDIANAPOLIS | The six-month process that determines how Indiana spends its money for the next two years began Wednesday with the first agency presentations to the State Budget Committee.
GUEST COMMENTARY: College completion good for individuals, economy
This past Saturday, 50 feet defined the difference between dreams and deadlines, between yesterday’s challenges and tomorrow’s opportunities.
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Reaction positive to Daniels as Purdue president
INDIANAPOLIS | The response from Hoosiers to Gov. Mitch Daniels' appointment as president of Purdue University has been overwhelmingly positive.
Expert: Better educated workforce would improve incomes
INDIANAPOLIS | Indiana's low-tax, limited-regulation business environment may not lead to higher incomes for Hoosiers unless the state's workforce becomes more educated.
Accountability, affordability big concerns for higher education
At a time when thousands of laid-off and underemployed workers are joining traditional college students in the classroom and education reformers are demanding the U.S. produce more college graduates, a book released in January by the University of Chicago Press says academe is failing.
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