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College-bound graduates on rise across Indiana
Indianapolis Star, Monday, Jan. 25 -- Indiana now stands 10th in the nation for sending high school grads to college, a major leap from its 34th ranking a decade ago.
http://www.indystar.com/articles/6/211895-4436-009.html
Card debt grips more collegians; With credit prevalent, woes can snowball
Indianapolis Star, Monday, Jan. 23 -- Credit counselors say it's a common for college students to rack up heavy credit card debt while still in college. Credit-card companies focus increasingly on younger consumers to expand their market and build loyalty at an early age. Eighty-three percent of college students have at least one credit card, up from 67 percent in 1998, according to a recent report by Nellie Mae, a nonprofit student loan provider. Article was written by an IU student and it quoted other students.
http://www.indystar.com/articles/2/211459-2642-223.html
Shame on those who would boo a Hoosier player
Indianapolis Star, Monday, Jan. 23 -- Indianapolis Star columnist wrote about the booing of IU basketball player Sean Kline last Wednesday and also offers comment about the anti-Kline Web sites that have been established.
http://www.indystar.com/articles/3/211748-7383-036.html
Population is growing at manageable rate; State's year-over-year increases are stable but are concentrated in areas like Hamilton County
Indianapolis Star, Monday, Jan. 24 -- Indiana's population gained about 38,000 residents from the year before, up just under 1 percent or about equal to the national average. Between 2000 and 2004, the population in Indiana had risen about 2 percent.
http://www.indystar.com/articles/3/211897-5373-009.html
State looking beyond borders; Economic strategy focuses on luring firms to Indiana
Indianapolis Star, Monday, Jan. 23 -- Profile of two entrepreneurs picked by Gov. Mitch Daniels to oversee Indiana's economic development. Interviewed are Michael "Mickey" Maurer, president of the Indiana Economic Development Corp., and Secretary of Commerce Pat Miller.
http://www.indystar.com/articles/3/211461-8283-085.html
Notre Dame provost hired to lead WFU
Raleigh (N.C.) News Observer, Saturday, Jan. 22 -- Wake Forest University appointed a new president Friday -- Nathan O. Hatch, a University of Notre Dame administrator, professor and scholar of American religious history. Hatch, 58, has spent his career at Notre Dame, most recently as provost, the chief academic leader of the Catholic university in South Bend, Ind. When he takes office July 1, he will become the 13th president of the private, 6,500-student university, which was founded in the town of Wake Forest.
http://www.newsobserver.com/news/story/2045921p-8430332c.html
Deficit? What deficit?
Bloomington Herald Times, Monday, Jan. 25 -- State Sen. Vi Simpson says no and State Sen. Richard Bray says "yes" to the question of whether there is actually a state deficit or not. The two exchanged comments on Sunday night's "Third House" on WTIU.
http://newsinfo.iu.edu/web/page/normal/1821.html
From the Chronicle --
More students would be eligible for the maximum Pell Grant and low-income students could earn more without losing any federal aid under proposals in a report that will be issued this week by a Congressional advisory committee. Some Democrats have praised the report, but a key Republican already is calling for it to be revised.
http://chronicle.com/daily/2005/01/2005012402n.htm
The endowments of most American colleges got richer in 2004, earning an average return of 15.1 percent, according to an annual survey that is scheduled to be released today by the National Association of College and University Business Officers. Coverage includes a scorecard showing how all 741 endowments in the survey performed.
http://chronicle.com/weekly/v51/i21/21a00101.htm
President Bush may propose eliminating funds next year for Upward Bound and Talent Search, two popular programs that help needy students prepare for college, in an effort to finance an expansion of his signature No Child Left Behind law to high-school students, higher-education advocates told the Chronicle last week.
http://chronicle.com/daily/2005/01/2005012401n.htm
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