General News
Passage of a two-year state budget by the Indiana General Assembly on Tuesday has triggered the tuition- and budget-setting process for all Indiana University campuses. IU President Michael A. McRobbie said Wednesday (July 1) he will move as rapidly as possible with a goal of bringing proposed tuition rates to the Board of Trustees in mid-July.
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Public K-12 education involves far more than just the 3 Rs. Schools are trying to address the financial problems posed by that fourth "R"—recession—while still meeting the need to educate students for an increasingly interrelated world. The Indiana University School of Education has organized a one-day seminar, "Issues in Education," for reporters trying to cover education issues, to provide tools to help tackle the complex issues involved with educating Indiana's children and as well as students nationwide.
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Indiana University alumni elected Philip N. Eskew Jr. to a second three-year term as an IU trustee today (June 30). Eskew, who was first elected in 2006, received 9,173 of the 29,300 valid votes cast.
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Paul Sullivan, Indiana University's deputy vice president for administration, will temporarily oversee the executive portfolio of J. Terry Clapacs, who retires today (June 30) as vice president and chief administrative officer.
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The third annual Chinese Pedagogy Institute concludes this week on the Indiana University campus after two and a half weeks of intensive work to prepare more teachers of the Chinese language. The institute is a project of the Center for Chinese Language Pedagogy (CCLP) within the College of Arts and Sciences.
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Indiana University's Learnability Project recently received a $2.34 million, five-year renewal of its National Institutes of Health funding, to continue through 2014. More than 1,000 children from across the state and beyond have received free, one-of-a-kind speech therapy through the program since its initial NIH funding in 1985.
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