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Retirement party at BudComm Green light to drive in reverse? Kenley, Bennett talk tuition and fee hikes ICHE promotes opt-in, won’t acquiesce to IU on two-year degrees State Budget Committee Chair Luke Kenley Staff with the Commission for Higher Education have been meeting (R) of Noblesville asked University of with the state-supported colleges and universities this Summer as ICHE Southern Indiana President Linda Bennett to prepares to issue recommendations at the request of the Indiana General appear at the August Budget Committee Assembly on reverse transfer. meeting to defend the school’s 5.0% tuition and fee hike in 2017 and 4.9% hike in 2018. Reverse transfer is the transfer of credits from a four-year institution back to the two-year institution the student first attended to determine if the student The Indiana Commission for Higher is eligible for an associate degree. Education in May called on institutions to hold annual increases in tuition and fees to Students without a bachelor’s degree, especially if they attended two or three no more than 1.4% in each of the next two different institutions, may not realize that they could combine all of their years, which “the universities did in large part credits together, and it actually would meet the requirements for an try to adhere to,” says Sen. Kenley. “There associate’s degree. was one noticeable exception, and that was USI,” he added. Allowing students to earn an associate’s degree by transferring credits in reverse may improve their marketability in terms of gaining a job, lead to a “For a number of years, there has been a lot higher wage or higher-wage job, or even serve as a sort of encouragement that of discussion on the part of the legislature and universities to deal with the rising cost of gives students confidence in their abilities. Research has suggested that higher education, and there’s been a lot of attaining short-term credentials motivates students to persist and reach the discussion about the debt loads students are next level. carrying forward, and I really feel, and have to articulate publicly, that Indiana and its About 10 public or private institutions in Indiana have already entered into universities have probably done more on this a reverse transfer agreement with either Ivy Tech Community College or particular subject than almost any other state Vincennes University, yet the agreements have so far only resulted in a few in the nation,” said Kenley, the Senate hundred additional degrees (Ivy Tech averages about 50 reverse transfer Committee on Appropriations chair who will degrees per year). retire early from the General Assembly later this month. All of the state-supported schools have entered into reverse transfer agreements with Ivy Tech, except for Indiana University and Ball State Dr. Bennett, who plans to retire from USI at University (although IU Southeast has a reverse transfer agreement with the end of the school year, explained that the Jefferson Community and Technical College in !), and Purdue tuition and fee hikes are the culmination of University’s agreement with Ivy Tech applies only to select academic a plan that USI quietly began to implement programs. about six years ago to gradually increase its tuition and fees to the average of the regional The existing reverse transfer agreements are opt-in for the student, but Ivy campuses and Indiana State University. Tech has asked ICHE to make it an opt-out process so that once a student hits 60 credits, the data would automatically flow back to Ivy Tech (at least When USI began to develop its budget for 15 of the 60 credits must be earned at the institution awarding the associate’s the 2017-2019 biennium, “my team did not degree). know I was planning on retiring, but I did,” says Bennett. “I wanted to complete this on “We believe it needs to be an opt-in,” clarifies Teresa Lubbers, commissioner my watch. I did not want to pass this off to of the Indiana Commission for Higher Education. Due to Family my successor.” She acknowledged that USI’s Educational Rights and Privacy Act of 1974 (FERPA) restrictions, ICHE tuition and fee hikes this biennium are an believes students need to give their approval prior to having their data shared outlier in terms of percentages, but “when we from one institution to another. Additionally, once the two-year institution entered into our plan, we were looking at an reviews the credits and determines whether the requirements for an associate’s amount of revenue in actual dollars.” degree have been met, students should verify that they actually want to The USI increases include a 3.9% base tuition receive an associate’s degree. hike for this school year and next, and a $2.50 increase per credit hour in the Ball State and IU, which we just noted do not have reverse transfer technology fee, resulting in an increase of agreements with Ivy Tech, feel strongly that it should be opt-in for the between $350 and $370 per year per full-time student. student, said President Bennett.

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In a break from Indiana’s established policies on mission “We want to design this in a way that has the greatest value differentiation, IU has told ICHE (and state legislators) that to the student,” she continues. “It shouldn’t just be handing the four-year institutions of higher education should be able out a piece of paper,” the Commissioner adds. “It has to have to confer associate’s degrees. Such a change would likely real value to the student, and that’s what we’ve been trying to prompt Ivy Tech to make a push for entry into four-year work toward.” degree programs, especially in nursing. Allowing Ivy Tech and Vincennes to award degrees via reverse During meetings organized by ICHE staff with all of the transfer would also help Indiana as a state move closer to public institutions, the four-year schools questioned why they attaining its goal of having at least 60% of working-age continue to be limited to offering bachelor’s degrees, Hoosiers earning a college credential by the year 2025 (we’re confirmed Sean Tierney, associate commissioner for policy at currently at about 41%). the Indiana Commission for Higher Education. Commissioner Lubbers believes that it is important to note “This report will not get into who is offering what types of that reverse transfer does not change degree requirements. degrees,” says Tierney, who is the ICHE lead on the reverse “We’re just processing it differently than in the past,” she transfer report. “It’s not about expanding degree offerings; it’s stresses. just about how we transfer credits.” The study is due to the General Assembly by November 1. “This is a real challenge for us because we’ve been clear about trying to streamline and refine the missions of institutions in As we’ve just outlined, several recommendations from various acknowledging that there’s a limited amount of money,” state-supported colleges and universities won’t be included in explains Commissioner Lubbers. “The Commission, and the the final report. Commission members, have been very reluctant to change their perspective on who awards bachelors and associate “I think the value of the legislature having us look at this is degrees,” notes the former lawmaker. to see if there is a way to standardize some parts of this procedure so it’s clearer how this is done and to try to work Another former legislator, Ivy Tech President Sue out some of the areas that were a little harder to work out Ellspermann, during a legislative hearing earlier this year, between the two- and four-year institutions,” observes the offered her observation that performance funding may Commissioner, who once chaired the Senate Committee on actually serve as a disincentive for four-year institutions like Education. IU to cooperate on a reverse transfer initiative “because it reshapes the pie in our favor.” Commissioner Lubbers predicts, “I think we’ll get to a place where we’ll be able to move this forward so there will be far Ivy Tech has proposed to ICHE that for every associate more reverse transfer degrees granted than in the past.” degree conferred via reverse transfer, the credit for the additional degree production in terms of performance funding should be split evenly between the two-year and four- year institution. IN Elementary & Secondary Ed

“It’s not our intention to have this be part of the !IN General . . . performance funding formula,” confirms Commissioner As Indiana prepares to submit its plan for implementation Lubbers, in an interview at the end of August with everyone’s of the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) to U.S. Secretary of favorite education newsletter. “This is something we did need Education Betsy DeVos , the Indiana Association of School to work on, and at this point we think it should not be part Psychologists (IASP) expresses its concern that the students of the performance funding formula.” with disabilities subgroup must make a 5.1 percentage-point gain each year on ISTEP/ILEARN in order to meet the state’s While Ivy Tech estimates that a robust reverse transfer proposed performance goal. program could result in an additional 1,000 degrees per year, Q IASP observes that “Academic interventions currently Lubbers explains that the Commission is not eager to see a used within the school seldom show percentage gains at this proliferation of general studies associate degrees. level. The United States Supreme Court most recently ruled that special education students should show growth similar “Without demeaning their value, we want degrees in the to their general education peers, not well above their peers. context of the areas of need in our economy. If you look at IASP would urge the state to reconsider the methodology the data, you’re not going to come up with a high demand used to determine the growth rate for special education need for general studies degrees,” states Commissioner students. The ambitious 5 year goals set forth in the ESSA Lubbers. plan will require extraordinary commitment to and action on the school improvement measures, support for excellent “I’m not going to say there shouldn’t be any general studies educators and support for all students, especially those with degrees granted through reverse transfer,” Lubbers clarifies. the greatest challenges.”

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Q The National Down Syndrome Congress and The Q MCS enrollment has declined by close to 500 students Advocacy Institute caution that Indiana’s academic this school year, exacerbating the fiscal distress and increasing achievement goals may be rejected by the U.S. Department of the likelihood that teachers will be asked to absorb dramatic Education, and the two groups caution Indiana to heed the cuts in compensation. June 13, 2017, interim feedback letter sent to the Delaware ! Department of Education (DDOE) by the U.S. Department Three vacant buildings in the Gary Community School of Education regarding Delaware’s ESSA state plan. Corporation have suffered fire damage in the past month. The state-appointed emergency manager tells the Gary Post- Q That letter stated: “In its State plan, DDOE proposes to Tribune that a plan is being developed to properly secure the decrease the percentage of non-proficient students in each city’s approximately 30 vacant school facilities, the vast subgroup by 50% by 2030, which would result in no more majority of which have been vandalized . . . yet the emergency than half to two-thirds of certain subgroups of students manager acknowledged that there’s no money available to achieving proficiency. Because the proposed long-term goals implement the plan. Many of the shuttered schools have for academic achievement are not ambitious, DDOE must open windows, giving intruders easy access. revise its plan to identify and describe long-term goals that Q are ambitious for all students and for each subgroup of According to the paper, “All 12 of the Gary Community students.” School Corp. schools that opened Aug. 17 had fire code violations following an annual routine inspection by the ! Sheridan High School looks to obtain identity protection Gary Fire Department, officials said.” on behalf of 39 students whose Social Security numbers were publicly disclosed online in a survey through Google Docs !IN School Choice . . . that students were asked to complete. Connections Academy will no longer provide management services to the Nexus Academy of Indianapolis charter high IN Administration . . . school, although Nexus will retain the Connections online ! The Southeastern School Corporation re-brands itself as curriculum and will continue to operate with a blended the Lewis Cass Schools. learning model. Beginning this Fall, administrative services will be provided by iLEAD Schools, a growing charter school ! Air quality tests on two portable classroom trailers at network with nine locations in California and one in . Hazel Dell Elementary School in Noblesville showed carbon dioxide levels exceeding the recommended levels, reported !IN Contracts & Compensation . . . Current in Noblesville and WRTV-TV rtv6 in Indianapolis. The Valparaiso Community Schools Board of Trustees The district responded by making structural repairs to the approves a 2.0% salary increase for administrators and trailers and ordering new air conditioning equipment. The classified staff, and extends the contracts of administrators by tests were conducted by the Indiana State Department of two years. Health (ISDH) at the behest of a “concerned citizen.” ! Substitute bus drivers in the North Montgomery School Q According to the ISDH’s School Indoor Air Quality Corporation will be eligible for a $1,000 bonus if they sub 10 Rule, the carbon dioxide levels inside school buildings and or more routes during the school year. . . . and teachers can facilities must not read 700ppm (parts per million) over the earn a $250 bonus if they miss no more than four school outdoor concentration. At the August 10 testing of Hazel days, and a $100 bonus for perfect attendance on the school Dell Elementary School, “the outdoor reading of carbon days before and after a break or holiday. dioxide was 366ppm, meaning indoor rooms had to read ! 1,066ppm or lower to be compliant with the School Indoor Bus drivers in the Monroe County Community School Air Quality Rule. Of the 11 tested spaces at Hazel Dell Corporation with 1-4 years of experience will see their hourly Elementary, which included two portables, four tested higher pay rise to $17; those with 5-14 years of experience will earn than 1,066ppm — rooms 139 (1,460ppm) and 142 (1,264ppm) $18 an hour; and drivers with 15 years or more on the road and portable classrooms south 102 (1,661ppm) and north 101 will be paid $20 an hour. The compensation increases were (2,435ppm),” the newspaper reports. approved at a school board meeting in which parents reportedly screamed in frustration at bus drivers employed by ! The -Davis School Corporation cuts the ribbon on Auxilio. a telehealth clinic located inside the elementary school in the ! Town of Hamleet. Patients will be connected with clinicians The Knox Community School Board bumps pay for bus employed by HealthLinc located in Knox. drivers for extracurricular activities to $9 an hour.

IN Budgets & Finance . . . !IN Programs & Curriculum . . . ! The Muncie Community Schools is expected to petition The Lewis Cass Schools plans to launch Lewis Cass Polytechnic Academy, beginning in Fall 2018, specializing in the Distressed Unit Appeals Board for a $5 million a variety of career courses and programming in areas relevant emergency loan that would allow the financially troubled to the regional economy such as manufacturing, robotics, and district to continue to operate through the end of the year. agriculture.

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! An Avon High School student started a Change.org ! In an incident that covered with the headline petition calling for the school to drop Pearson’s “Teacher: Dear parents, tell your kids to stop talking about enVisionmath curriculum because “Students are missing the God,” a first-grade teacher at McCordsville Elementary fundamental values of a successful classroom by removing School sent a letter home to parents asking that they instruct lectures by our beloved teachers and staff,” reports WISH-TV their children to avoid talking in class about “God”, “Jesus”, News8 in Indianapolis. or the “Devil.” ! The Indianapolis Public Schools asks the Butler University Q The unnamed teacher issued her appeal to parents after College of Education to launch a second Lab School that a group of students held conversations about religion in class would be located at Eliza A. Blaker School 55 at 1349 East even after she asked them to stop. “With McCordsville 54th Street beginning in Fall 2018. The original Butler Lab Elementary being a public school, we have many different School has been well received by parents and currently has a religions and beliefs, and I do not want to upset a lengthy waiting list. The Lab School uses the Reggio Emilia child/parent because of these words being used,” the second- model. year teacher wrote. Q ! White Lodging, which owns and operates three hotels in The Mt. Vernon Community School Corporation Bloomington, will pay the Monroe County Community clarified that “employees can neither advance nor inhibit School Corporation for an adult education instructor to religious views.” Superintendent Shane Robbins explained, provide hotel employees with English as a Second Language “Trying to limit a student’s view on religion is a violation of classes. Participating employees will receive a total of 85 a student’s first amendment rights. However, if the discussion hours of instruction between August and December, in becomes an academic disruption, then as a district, we can furtherance of supporting them to become more employable intervene to maintain the integrity of the educational process in positions that require interacting with guests and to study while at the same time being sure to not violate a student’s for START certifications in hospitality. constitutional rights.” ! The Greater Clark County Schools partners with the IN Referenda . . . United Parcel Service on an earn-and-learn program where ! Only four school corporations will hold referenda this Jeffersonville High School students will work at the UPS coming November, the fewest in any election since November facility in Louisville from 11:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. while 2014. earning high school credit and college credit from Jefferson Community and Technical College in Louisville. !IN Construction & Facilities . . . ! The South Bend-St. Joseph County Historic Preservation We told you a few months ago that this was brewing, and Commission voted 4-1 to reject a request from the South now as the Carmel Clay Schools looks to expand Bend Community School Corporation to demolish the opportunities for unstructured play and recess, the district Marquette School building to create more space for a convenes a committee of parents, staff, and administrators to Montessori program. Indiana Landmarks recently placed the review the elementary schedule and programming. school on its list of top 10 endangered sites. ! !IN Policy . . . After prevailing in a 30-day petition/remonstrance The U.S. Department of Education awards a Green signature war, the Greater Jasper Consolidated Schools Ribbon to the Bethany Christian Schools, an honor expects to award bids in April and break ground in May on recognizing the parochial school located in Goshen as one of the $30 million construction of a new elementary school. the most environmentally friendly schools in the country. Bethany operates a geothermal wellfield, a 3.6-kilowatt wind ! A facilities study of the Alexandria Community Schools turbine, and solar panels that can provide 77 kilowatts of recommends that the district consolidate all of its schools electricity. Food scraps from the cafeteria are composted and into a single campus building. used in the student-tended school garden, which provides fresh produce for the school’s salad bar. ! Consultants hired by the Richmond Community Schools calculate that the elementary school buildings have an excess ! The Eastern Pulaski School Corporation adopts a policy capacity of 400 students; the intermediate schools have space allowing students to accrue a balance of up to $5 in their for another 600 students; and the high schools are under- school lunch accounts before they are restricted to an utilized by up to 750 students. alternate meal. . . . the Brown County School Corporation ! eliminates the alternative lunch and instead will allow The Portage Township Board of School Trustees holds off students to receive a regular hot meal whether or not they on finalizing a renovation contract after an firm have paid. submitted the lowest of seven bids, $6.51 million for renovation of a section of Portage High School that the ! The City of Huntingburg agrees to evenly split the cost of district had estimated at $10.5 million. Tower Contractors a school resource officer with the Southwest Dubois County LLC, of Mokena, Illinois, was new to the board, and members School Corporation. felt it appropriate to perform more due diligence on the firm.

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Q The Times of Northwest Indiana reports that board Q The lawsuit contends that “Subsequent investigations attorney Kenneth Elwood and architect Mark Lebland of initiated by Plaintiff, and performed by Patriot Engineering Alliance Architects in South Bend reviewed the three lowest and Environmental Inc. and Alliance Environmental Group, bids “to determine if the bids received were responsive and Inc. revealed airborne mold contamination and surface mold responsible. Checks that were made on the three lowest contamination,” and “Action then had to be taken to bidders included calls to customers, unions and remediate the mold contamination and Plaintiff engaged subcontractors,” and they learned that while Tower was new Midwest Remediation to perform the remediation. Midwest to the district, it had handled many large projects, including Remediation determined that the airborne and surface mold schools in Illinois and, closer to Porter County, a fire station contaminants were caused by the malfunction of the chiller in nearby Rensselaer. units. Liberty Mutual denied Plaintiff’s claim for insurance Q coverage because it found no evidence or information that According to the paper, “Base bids received by the board, could confirm the existence of damage to covered equipment not including Tower are as follows: Larson-Danielson, resulting from an equipment breakdown loss, as would be $6,875,445; Berglund Construction, $7,054,000; Gibson-Lewis, required under the Liberty Mutual policy. As a direct result $6,885,100; Gough Construction, $7,268,000; Madison of the foregoing, Plaintiff was required to spend well over Construction, $6,878,837; and Gariup Construction, $600,000 in environmental remediation expenses and for the $6,967,000.” replacement of damaged property.” ! The Vincennes Community School Corporation reaches Q agreement with two of the three landowners of property In late June 2015, a large leak was also discovered in the behind Franklin Elementary School to buy some of that land cooling tower for a chiller at Zionsville High School, for less than $15,000 for use as green space and potentially followed two months later by failure of the chillers at an future playground construction. elementary school. Assorted other chiller issues arose throughout the district. “All of these issues should have been ! Zionsville Community Schools files a lawsuit against a discovered through CMS’ contractually defined PM. Instead, contractor. The district alleges that Choice Mechanical upon information and belief, CMS failed to perform PM at Services (CMS) failed to perform contracted preventative one time or another at each of the facilities listed in the maintenance services for all the chillers in all of the ZCS Contract causing harm and emergent responses by Plaintiff school buildings. The non-performance, the lawsuit claims, to remedy the issues.” resulted in at least $100,000 in direct chiller repair costs in addition to $600,000+ in environmental remediation expenses IN Transition . . . and replacement of damaged property to date, even before ! Casey Brewster , recently suspended from his post as taking into account ongoing issues in multiple buildings — in superintendent of the Paoli Community Schools before particular an “onslaught of mold at Zionsville West Middle resigning in July, has been hired as principal of Scottsburg School, and a systematic failure of its chiller systems in High School. numerous school buildings because of CMS’s negligence and CMS’s admitted failure to perform its contractual duties.” ! Dr. Matthew Shoemaker has reached an agreement to Q The lawsuit, Zionsville Comm’ty Schools v. Greiner Bros. become the next superintendent of the New Castle Inc. d/b/a Choice Mechanical Services , No. 49D03-1706-PL- Community Schools. The Jay County native currently works 023590, was filed in Marion County Superior Court, Civil as director of extended learning for the School District of Division 3 Commercial Court. The school district claims that Palm Beach County, Florida. CMS failed to live up to terms of a three-year contract for ! performing chiller preventative maintenance entered into in Ron Evans will leave his post overseeing the Traders Point January 2015. ZCS also asserts that in February 2016, “more Christian Schools in Indianapolis at the end of this semester than a year after entering into the Contract, CMS admitted following four years with TPCS. that it could not produce any documentation showing the ! Winter 2014 PM was performed, and offered to credit Latrese Moffett takes over on short notice as headmaster Plaintiff for that work.” of The King’s Academy in Jonesboro. ! Q But ZCS tells the court that “Throughout the summer of Dr. Brian Crouse is the new administrator of Lakeview 2015 and into the fall, many of the Plaintiff’s chillers Christian School in Marion, succeeding Doug Ballinger , who experienced significant malfunctions necessitating immediate recently left Lakeview to join the local public school system. attention and forcing Plaintiff to incur repair and other Dr. Crouse has 20 years of experience in Christian education, expenses totaling at least $100,000.” “In mid-June 2015 all having served as a pastor, teacher, and administrator at three chillers at ZWMS faulted. In the summer of 2015, Christian schools and colleges. Plaintiff’s personnel observed mold and mold-related odors at ZWMS. Plaintiff called CMS to ZWMS to address those ! Julie Whitman leaves the Indiana Youth Institute where poor air quality issues and potential fungal damage. Despite she worked as vice president of statewide engagement and subsequent reports by CMS technicians, they did not note the advocacy to become the first executive director of the fault on all three chillers, nor did they note any other Commission on Improving the State of Children in Indiana, observations.” effective September 11.

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! Matt Wolfert has been selected as president of the Indiana ! The Indiana Department of Education reverses course and High School Athletic Association Foundation. He comes will now allow charter schools to receive state and federal from Cathedral High School where he held the position of funding for career and technical education. IDOE director of major gifts. Prior to Cathedral, he worked at the recommends that charter schools join existing Area CTE National Collegiate Athletic Association as director of District consortiums in order to access federal Carl D. corporate relationships, championships and alliances. Perkins grant funds. Charters also have the option to create ! new Area CTE Districts, a process that would take at least a Debbie Zipes steps down as president of the Indiana year. Afterschool Network after a nine-year run on September 22. ! ! Spring 2017 ISTEP+ scores were released to schools and The Tippecanoe School Corporation announces Kirk school corporations on August 16 under an embargo that Booe as assistant superintendent of secondary curriculum and lasts until the Indiana Department of Education releases the instruction. He replaces Doug Miller , who accepted the results publicly at 3:00 p.m. on Wednesday, September 6. position of superintendent of the Sheridan Community School Corporation. Booe spent the last eight years as the ! The Indiana Department of Education extends the superintendent of Covington Community School contract with Pearson Education, Inc., for the ISTEP+ exam Corporation. Prior to that, he served as principal at for another 12 months through December 31, 2018, at an Covington High School, assistant principal at Rockville additional cost of $24,922,670. Pearson, which became Junior/Senior High School and taught science and physical Indiana’s standardized assessment provider on July 1, 2015, education at North Vermillion High School. will have been paid a total of $57,571,270 over the three-and- ! The South Bend Community School Corporation selects a-half year contract period. Fixed costs for ISTEP+ are Alexander Brandon as director of high schools and career partially shared with Pearson’s contract for the IREAD-3 and technical education. He previously served as principal of assessment. IDOE has also extended the IREAD-3 contract River Forest High School in Hobart. through December 31, 2018, at an additional cost of $2,928,762, which brings the total IREAD-3 contract value to ! Governor Eric Holcomb (R) makes a trio of new $8,740,318. Test dates for ISTEP+ Spring Part 1 will be appointments to the Indiana School for the Deaf Board: February 26, 2018 - March 9, 2018. For ISTEP+ Spring Part 2, Andrew D. Leffler , assistant director of Relay Indiana/ testing will take place April 16, 2018 - May 4, 2018 (as in the InTRAC; Terri C. Miller , assistant director of special past, IDOE and the State Board of Education may approve education for the Hamilton Boone Madison Special Services early testing). The Spring IREAD-3 testing window for 2018 Cooperative, and Amy E. Waggoner , senior manager of state runs from March 12-16, while the Summer testing window and local government affairs for Salesforce. Gov. Holcomb remains open from late May into July. also designated P.J. McGrew , the governor’s director of Q education policy, as his representative to the board. Subcontractor BC Forward will hire and pay scorers from within the State of Indiana to score open-ended ! The Oaks Academy in Indianapolis announces Terry responses. Results for English/language arts will not be Lyons , chief financial officer and vice president of Lilly USA, broken out into separate reading and writing scores. Indiana as a new member of its Board of Directors. will also pay for Pearson Perspective, an online library with thousands of learning resources that can be accessed year- ! Former Indiana Department of Education (1995 -2004) round at home or school. Each student report will be coded staffer Terry Spradlin leaves the Education Networks of with a unique Learning Locator that, when entered into the America to become executive director of the Indiana School Pearson Perspective website, will retrieve learning resources Boards Association, succeeding the retiring Brian Smith . tailored to each student’s strengths and weaknesses. After leaving IDOE, Spradlin served as director for education policy and the High School Survey of Student Engagement ! In a formal advisory opinion, 17-FC-143, the Indiana with the Center for Evaluation & Education Policy (CEEP) at Public Access Counselor rules that the Indiana Virtual School Indiana University. violated the Indiana Access to Public Records Act when it ! failed to release its 2015 management agreement. IVS stated Rep. Tom Washburne (R) of Inglefield will not seek re- that it is no longer in possession of the vendor agreement. election from his HD 64 seat. Before he became corporate Public Access Counselor Luke Britt notes that the retention counsel with Old National Bancorp in Evansville, the former period for a contract or service agreement is 10 years. congressional staffer was an attorney with Home School Legal Defense Associates, where he defended the rights of parents ! Eighteen applicants representing school corporations or to home-school their children. groups of school corporations were selected by the State Workforce Innovation Council (SWIC) and the Department !IN Government . . . of Workforce Development (DWD) in December 2016 to The Indiana Network of Knowledge (INK) has been receive funding to implement the Governor’s Work Ethic absorbed by the Management and Performance Hub (MPH) Certificate (WEC) program . . . and SWIC and DWD will and renamed the Education and Workforce Development soon select another group of schools to implement the database (EWD). program for the 2017-2018 school year.

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Q To earn the WEC, students must obtain the signatures of Q The second meeting on August 22 included input from three teachers confirming their consistent demonstration of students, parents, and advocates, including (students not the following five employability competencies: 1) listed): perseverance; 2) service to others, positive attitude, and communicates clearly; 3) self-starter and critical thinker; 4) Caitlin Bell , Institute for Quality Education reliability, responsibility, and teamwork; and 5) organization, Sekou Biddle , United Negro College Fund punctuality, and self-management. Additionally, students Kim Dodson , The Arc of Indiana must meet the following four conditions: 1) demonstrates Debbie Fox , Indiana PTA academic readiness, minimum 2.0 GPA, and on track to Mary Gardner , Stand For Children graduate; 2) minimum 98% attendance rate; 3) no more than Amy Marsh , MGT Consulting Group one discipline referral; and 4) a completed a minimum of six Doneisha Posey , Indiana Civil Rights Commission hours of community service or volunteerism. Pamela Stalling , PTA Q Collaborators who participated in the August 29 meeting ! Superintendent of Public Instruction Jennifer McCormick (R) supports mandatory kindergarten and lowering the were teachers and counselors: compulsory attendance age from seven to six, she revealed at Rachelle Baker , Indiana School Counselor Association an event hosted by the Indiana Coalition for Public Carlotta Cooprider , Teach Plus Education that included two of her three most recent Julie Hill , Indiana School Counselor Association predecessors. Teresa Meredith , Indiana State Teachers Association ! Justin Oakley , American Federation of Teachers Indiana A school board member of the Switzerland County School Brandie Oliver , professor at Butler University Corporation alleged in a complaint with the Indiana Public Faye Snodgrass , Kappa Delta Pi Access Counselor that the board, superintendent, a Lee Strassell , Indiana Council of Teachers of Mathematics consultant, and an attorney violated the Indiana Open Door Law by discussing the issue of a vacant building during an IN Courts & Conduct . . . executive session rather than using the time to train board ! A 16-year-old female has been arrested and charged in members as stated on the meeting’s public notice. In May juvenile court with two counts of intimidation for making 2017, the Board voted 6-1 to demolish the building; the threats on Instagram to harm students and staff at Warren Complainant was the lone vote against the demolition. In its Central High School. response to the complaint, the Board maintained that the discussion about the facility was appropriately held within ! A former Southport High School student was arrested in the context of board training; alleged that the Complainant the parking lot after a Perry Township Schools police officer has made it difficult for the Board to focus on other issues observed a gun in plain sight in the teen’s vehicle. The 16- because she continually attempts to revisit issues that have year-old was preliminarily charged with possession of a already been decided; noted that the Complainant is firearm, possession of marijuana, possession of paraphernalia, commonly the sole dissenter and that her resistance was a and resisting law enforcement. factor that prompted the Board to seek the training that occurred at the executive session; and stated that the ! The Porter County Sheriff’s Department provided a consultant’s expertise was needed to help with strategies for heightened presence at the East Porter County Schools to moving forward amicably after the majority of the Board has assuage worried parents after a 15-year-old male student decided an issue. Public Access Counselor Luke Britt allegedly stated at an extra-curricular event that “No one concludes that the public does not appear to have been should go to school tomorrow if they don’t want to get shot.” harmed or injured by the Board’s actions, but he advises The school district (via a principal and a school resource Switzerland County that executive sessions convened for officer) reported the threat to the sheriff’s office, which board member training “are intended to be general in conducted an investigation and determined that no viable nature–high level issues and trends– rather than granular, threat existed. “I commend the parents for their vigilance and substantive specific topics.” East Porter County Schools for contacting us so we can ! The inaugural meeting of the Graduation Pathways Panel handle the incident quickly” said Porter County Sheriff focused on feedback from higher education and the David Reynolds (D). workforce, represented by the following collaborators: ! Clay City schools were placed in what was termed a Marilyn Buck , Ball State University “precautionary” lockout on Thursday morning and police Jacob Everett , Indy Partnership called due to an unspecified incident . . . but administrators Jason Kloth , CICP assured parents in an email later in the day that “No direct Chris Lowery , Ivy Tech Community College threat was made to either Clay City Elementary or Clay City John Newby , Ivy Tech Community College High School,” said that “for safety/precautionary measures Janet Rummel , Ivy Tech Community College Clay City Schools were placed under a ‘lockout’ ” until police Mitch Warren , Purdue University resolved the situation. “No one was in danger at any time — Roy Weaver , Ball State University Stephanie Wells , Indiana Manufacturers Association [it] was strictly a proactive/safety-first measure,” parents were Susan Brock Williams , Purdue University told by administrators.

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! In a freak accident, several children riding the school bus Q Dowell had argued that the relevant state statute home from Indian Springs Middle School in Whitley County governing reductions in force does not mandate a private were burned on their legs, and at least one had to be conference with the school board but merely sets it out as an transported to the hospital, when a hose leaked and expelled option. The court finds that even in the absence of hot steam beneath the seats. mandatory language, Dowell was required to meet with the ! school board in order to exhaust his administrative remedies The South Bend Police Department was dispatched to the as a prerequisite to judicial review. Stanley Clark School around 9:20 a.m. on Thursday, August 24 to respond to reports of an armed intruder. The man ! On Wednesday, September 6, the U.S. Court of Appeals “entered the school asking staff where his son was before for the Seventh Circuit will hear a 15-minute oral argument storming down the hallway,” reported WNDU-TV in South in Elliott v. Bd. of School Trustees of Madison Consolidated Bend. “He smashed a clock before telling someone that he Schools , No. 16-4168. This is an important case challenging would blow them up and blow up the school.” Melvin Ward the constitutionality of SEA 1-2011, which required schools III left when he couldn’t reach his son, frightened school to consider performance rather than seniority in RIF staffers with repeated burnouts in his car, then unsuccessfully decisions involving established teachers. The school district attempted to drive his vehicle into a police car, after which he lost the constitutionality argument in U.S. District Court. led police on a short car chase before crashing into a vehicle stopped at an intersection. Once he was apprehended with Q Eric Hylton of Riley Bennett Egloff LLP is arguing the the use of a Taser, police learned he was unarmed. “Stanley case for former Dupont Elementary School teacher Joe Clark staff, phenomenal,” said Chief Scott Ruszkowski , Elliott ; Solicitor General Tom Fisher is intervening on behalf reported WNDU. “Did exactly what they were supposed to.” of the Office of the Attorney General on the constitutionality Q issue. Michelle Lynn Cooper of Lewis & Kappes PC appears The 35-year-old Ward was charged with three felonies: for MCS, and the National Education Association also intimidation, resisting law enforcement, and attempted weighs in for Elliott. battery by means of a deadly weapon. He also faces a misdemeanor charge of resisting law enforcement. ! A fight among students during recess Wednesday at ! Needham Elementary School led to police being summoned According to the Muncie Star Press , federal “[l]awsuits and the school being placed in lockdown status. claiming Muncie Community Schools violated the Constitutional rights of two former educators who criticized ! A review of accounts by during a change in Lebanon the school district are being settled out of court. Retired Community School Corporation administrations resulted in teacher Kay Rankin and retired principal Mike Ryan sued Christina Edwards , who had been Harney Elementary after being banned in February from school property for School’s Parent/Teacher Organization treasurer, being ‘disruptive conduct.’ A month later, the ban was modified to arrested for theft. allow them to continue to attend school board meetings — after the school district heard from their lawyer .... School ! Clark-Pleasant Community School Corporation officials board President Debbie Feick told The Star Press : ‘Our promise some type of unspecified disciplinary action will be insurance carrier, Argo Group, has negotiated an agreed taken against four Whiteland Community High School resolution that will be subject to board approval at our Sept. students (under 18 years of age) who are believed to have 12 meeting.’ ” participated in rivalry-related “pranks” that caused some $8,000+ in damage to Center Grove High School football ! In Dowell v. Bd, of School Trustees of Madison Consolidated Schools , No. 1:15-cv-814-WTL-TAB, the U.S. stadium bleachers. Some suggest that the actions may have District Court for the Southern District of Indiana been retaliation for what the students thought was similar determines that former teacher Michael S. Dowell may not activity earlier in the month by CG students at New challenge his termination in court because he failed to Whiteland. exhaust his administrative remedies when he declined the opportunity to hold a private conference with the school board. Dowell was employed as a health and physical IN Higher Education education teacher at Madison Junior High School from Fall º 2003 through June 2013. On May 24, 2013, Dowell received Cont. from page one . . . notice from the principal that, due to a “justifiable decrease “This was not an effort to ignore the reality of our students in the number of teaching positions,” i.e., a reduction in and their families or the leadership of the Commission for force, the principal had made a preliminary decision not to Higher Education,” said Dr. Bennett. renew his contract for the 2013-14 school year. On May 25, 2013, Dowell requested and later received a conference with “This effort was to position the university so it could the superintendent to appeal the principal’s preliminary function moving ahead in a more reasonable way. We had the decision. On May 30, Dowell received the superintendent’s lowest tuition and lowest appropriation (of the four-year letter notifying him that he was upholding the principal’s schools) when I got here. We were determined to say what can preliminary decision. The school board then made the final we do to strengthen ourselves,” explains the USI president. decision to cancel his contract.

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At the end of President Bennett’s remarks, Sen. Kenley noted ! We reported in September 2016 that the Indiana State that he would like to see USI continue to grow its Board of Nursing voted to initiate the process to close down endowment. the MJS College School of Nursing. In addition to poor student performance on the nursing licensure exam, MJS had About 95% of USI’s revenues currently come from relocated its campus from Merrillville to a temporary tuition/fees and state appropriations. President Bennett location in Crown Point without informing the Board of responded that USI recently concluded a successful $57 Nursing, which found out about the move via a student million capital campaign. complaint. Upon conducting a site inspection, the Board found that the temporary location lacked adequate classroom On affordability, President Bennett explained that the average space and faculty space and had no library for student use. In student debt load for a USI graduate is $21,000 compared to January 2017 the Board of Nursing conducted a follow-up a state average of $29,000, said Bennett. She said 33% of USI site visit to the new proposed location in Merrillville and graduates complete a degree with no debt, while another 11% found it to be much improved in terms of classroom space, complete with less than $10,000 in debt. faculty office space, and simulation labs. The Board of Nursing also noted that MJS had added support staff in the !IN General . . . form of an administrator, marketing personnel, and a new The Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology will acquire regulatory compliance counsel. MJS had agreed with the from the Hulman Family more than 1,100 acres of land Board that its faculty members should no longer be tasked located at the southern border of campus, which will expand with managing the school but should focus exclusively on the campus footprint sixfold. The property is mainly academic delivery. Moreover, student passage rates on the farmland and forest and includes a former Hulman family nursing licensure exam for calendar year 2016 increased to residence. Tony Hulman George sits on the board of the 87.5%, up from 31.25% in 2015 and 33.30% in 2014. Despite private school located in Terre Haute. This year marks the these improvements, the Board still had concerns with the 100th anniversary of the Hulman family’s 1917 donation of quality of the faculty, the physical site of the school, the lack a 123-acre farm tract to Rose Polytechnic Institute, as the of clinical sites, and the inferior simulation equipment in the school was then known, reports the Terre Haute Tribune-Star . skills lab. ! A new report from the Center on Budget and Policy Q We can now update you with the news that MJS will be Priorities (CBPP) on higher education funding since the 2008- allowed to remain open on Conditional Accreditation after 2009 recession finds that Indiana is one of only five states entering into a settlement agreement with the State Board of spending more per student in the 2017 school year than in Nursing in July. The terms of the agreement call for MJS to 2008, inflation adjusted (the others are Montana, , attain a cumulative pass rate on the nursing licensure exam , and Wyoming). The average state spent 16% of at least 80% for calendar year 2017; hire an instructor less per student in 2017 than in 2008. State spending on dedicated solely to lab skills and simulations; add an acute higher education per pupil in Indiana adjusted for inflation care clinical site; provide the Board with monthly written went up by 0.2% ($16) over the span, according to CBPP. reports and quarterly in-person reports; provide a copy of the Between 2016 and 2017, state spending on higher education agreement to all students, faculty, and staff; and may not per student in Indiana inflation adjusted declined by 0.12% (- $10). The average tuition at public, four-year colleges in enroll more than 10 new students in calendar year 2017. Indiana, inflation adjusted, increased between 2008-2017 by ! 15.6% ($1,243). That’s half as fast as the national average: Ball State University President Geoffrey S. Mearns , a since 2008, average annual tuition at four-year public native son of Charlottesville, Virginia, told faculty and staff institutions nationally increased by 35% ($2,484). at BSU’s Opening Convocation for the Fall Semester that “all of us must condemn — unequivocally — the racial hatred — the Q The average tuition at public, four-year schools in bald faced bigotry – that instigated the violent confrontation Indiana declined from 2016-2017 by 0.4% (- $34), when that led to the deaths of three people.” adjusted for inflation. ! A mural located inside Woodburn Hall on the Indiana ! As more of Indiana’s public four-year campuses move University Bloomington campus, which was painted by toward flat-rate tuition for all full-time students who take Thomas Hart Benton and which depicts the history of more than 12 credits per semester, the Education Advisory Indiana, has once again become the target of protestors who Board (EAB) analyzed data from 1.3 million students across take offense at the inclusion of images of a Ku Klux Klan 137 schools and found that first-time, full-time students who rally. An online petition is calling for the KKK imagery to be average at least 15 credits per term end the year with higher removed . . . and if this sounds familiar to you, it may be GPAs and higher retention rates than their peers who take because we reported on a similar crusade in Bloomington fewer credits. Positive outcomes were associated with taking about a dozen years ago. at least 15 credits per term during the freshman year even for students who had a high school GPA of between 2.0 and 2.5. IN Enrollments . . . Hoosier students are required to complete at least 30 credits ! Ball State University set a new record for total enrollment each year in order to renew their state financial aid at the at 22,513 students. The freshmen class is the second largest in maximum amount. school history at 4,002 students, three shy of the 1997 record.

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Q Almost three-quarters (73%) of the freshmen earned an C Bethel College ranked 2nd in “Best Bang for the Buck - Midwest” Honors Diploma. Ball State also reports 4,670 online students, 83% of which are graduate students. • Goshen College ranked 2nd in “National Universities - Bachelors” ! Indiana State University sets a new record for total • Valparaiso University ranked 9th in “National Universities - enrollment at 13,771 students. The freshmen class of 2,688 Masters” students grew by 10% over last year and includes 402 students from Illinois, up from 242 a year ago. Laptop/iPad • Indiana Wesleyan University ranked 7th in “Best Colleges for scholarships were awarded to 1,556 students who had a 3.0 Adult Leaders” high school GPA or higher on a 4.0 scale. ISU also enrolls 2,510 online students, an increase of 8.6% from 2016. IN Administration . . . ! Fitch Ratings, in the national ratings agency’s most recent ! Indiana University Bloomington welcomes a record 7,995 grading of Anderson University debt (which, as we told you beginning students for Fall 2017, a 1.5% increase over the in our last issue, was a relatively strong rating), did express previous record of 7,875 in Fall 2015. some concerns over events at AU which it suggests could lead to financial issues at the school. Q The Class of 2021 is also better prepared, earning an Q average score of 1295 on the SAT/ACT, up 9 points from the “There have been several recent or pending changes in previous record set last year, while their median grade-point senior leadership roles. Fitch views this as a potential average was 3.83, an increase of .04 from last year’s mark. concern, especially if transitions disrupt AU’s ability to Nearly 4,400 Indiana high school graduates are in the 2017-18 pursue its strategic enrollment plan or to manage costs.” class of first-year students. IUB will also enroll a record Fitch specifically cites the CFO’s pending retirement and “the number of first-year students from under-represented groups. vice presidents for advancement and enrollment both left for Applications rose by 21%, thanks in part to the first-time personal reasons earlier in 2017. A new enrollment head was implementation of both the Common Application and the recently named, but these transitions could negatively affect Coalition Application. AU's fundraising initiatives and execution of its enrollment strategic plan if not well-managed.” ! The Fall 2017 freshmen class at IUPUI is not just the biggest and brightest in campus history, it’s also the most Q A softer 2017 enrollment also raises eyebrows. “AU'’ diverse. There are 4,115 beginning freshmen, an increase of headcount enrollment has fallen 14.5% from a peak of 2,611 2.8% over last year, and exceeding the previous record set in in fall 2011 to 2,232 in fall 2016. The trend reflects a 2014. Minority students constitute 28.3% of the freshman competitive environment, price sensitivity among students class in Indianapolis, up from 24.7% in 2015. and AU'’ overlap with nearby public institutions with lower Hispanic/Latino students make up the largest minority costs of attendance. AU had expected a flat incoming fall group, at 9.8%, while African-American/black students 2017 class, but preliminary data indicate a softer yield. comprise 8.2% of the class. The average SAT score is a Management now expects an incoming class of about 400-420 record-high 1121, while the average GPA is 3.5. In-state (goal was 475) and is budgeting for lower total enrollment as students make up 92% of freshmen. a result. Management attributes the anticipated miss largely ! to turnover in admissions staff earlier in the cycle, which The Class of 2021 is the first in hampered execution of its recruitment strategy.” While AU’s school history to feature more than 1,000 women. Among the board recently approved a strategic plan with two-, three- and record number of incoming female students, 38% plan to five-year enrollment growth targets, “AU must achieve at least study engineering, compared with 32% last year and 20% nationwide. More than 19,500 students applied, 3,700 were modest enrollment growth over the next few years to balance accepted, and 2,052 enrolled. The yield rate — the percentage its budget when debt service ramps up in 2022. Failure to of students who enrolled after being admitted — was 55.4 improve enrollment trends over the next (fall 2018) percent. admissions cycle would likely lead to negative rating action.” Q Q The UND class is 67.8% white; 10.9% Hispanic; 7.6% In terms of operating performance, “AU expects another Asian; 6.3% African-American; 6.3% international and 1.0% full-accrual deficit in fiscal 2018 and results will likely be Native American. A total of 81% of the class identify as somewhat weaker than 2017, reflecting lower revenues from Catholic. softer fall 2017 enrollment. However, AU anticipates deficits should not exceed those of 2016. AU’s 2018 budget ! Valparaiso University welcomed an incoming incorporates lower enrollment expectations but has not class of only 28 students, a 73% decline from just one year factored in the benefit of the refinancing or of higher ago, as the private institution strategically maneuvers to raise trustee-led giving to date. AU has been able to manage weaker its academic profile. revenue trends well by containing costs, but long-term budgetary balance will require revenue growth, which is IN Rankings . . . expected to be evident when fall 2018 enrollment data is ! Hoosier institutions honored by Washington Monthly in available. Failure to improve net revenue growth by then the magazine’s 2017 college and university rankings include: would likely lead to negative action.”

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Q Can Anderson overcome financial pressures? University Q The nascent Purdue-Infosys alliance also includes the reserves “provide some cushion and ... principal deferral over establishment of the Infosys Solutions Center at Purdue, the next few years should help preserve AU’s liquidity. which could mean “millions of dollars in joint research,” Metrics exceed those of most non-investment grade peers but according to information provided by Purdue. would not support the [new bond] rating if AU fails to improve its bottom line over time. Available funds (defined ! The Indianapolis campus of Ivy Tech Community College as cash and investments less permanently restricted net assets) partners with the International Union of Operating totaled $6 million at May 31, 2016 based on reported figures, Engineers Local 103 for an apprenticeship and training which would equal a weak 12% of operating expenses and program leading to both a Technical Certificate and an 12% of debt.” Associate of Applied Science degree . . . the Evansville campus of Ivy Tech Community College adds an apprenticeship Q On a positive note, however, “Fitch’s standard program leading to an Associate of Applied Science for calculation understates AU’s unrestricted cash and Refrigeration Technicians. investments by about $11.7 million. Certain of AU’s permanent endowment funds have accumulated investment ! In conjunction with Conexus and other industry partners, losses and are ‘underwater’ relative to the funds’ booked Ivy Tech Community College creates a new certificate value. Current accounting rules require deduction of such program in Commercial Driver’s License Plus stackable to the losses from unrestricted, rather than from permanently Associate of Science in Supply Chain Management and restricted, endowment value. Adjusting for this, Fitch Logistics. Conexus reports that 1,200 CDL jobs went unfilled estimates AU’s unrestricted cash and investments would be last year and that Indiana is estimated to have a deficit in about 36% of operating expenses and 34% of debt, which CDL drivers of 500 per year based on Indiana Bureau of would generally exceed the cushion of non-investment grade Motor Vehicles license issuance and Department of peers.” Workforce Development demand data. ! Harrison College has been awarded conditional initial ! Ivy Tech Community College creates a new certificate accreditation from the Accrediting Bureau of Health program in insurance to be offered statewide via distance Education Schools (ABHES). Harrison was accredited by the education and that will stack to the Associate of Applied Accrediting Council for Independent Colleges and Schools Science in Business Administration. The Certificate was (ACICS) . . . but the U.S. Department of Education stripped developed in consultation with insurance partners including ACICS of its accrediting authority in 2016 based on Erie Insurance and Cardinal Insurance Services, Inc. and allegations of lax oversight of schools. targets both existing workers in the industry and a new pipeline of Customer Service Agents (CSAs) and Producers. ! Indiana University administrators met privately with the Studies have indicated that as much as 50% of the insurance owners of Kilroy’s Recess a few days after the establishment’s workforce will retire within the next 15 years. Twitter account sent out a now-deleted tweet urging IU alum Mark Cuban to “come check out your old place! Spoiler: we ! Indiana University Southeast eliminates its B.A./B.S. in got rid of the wet t-short contests, but kept the underage Early Childhood Education . . . renames its B.A. in girls.” Kilroy’s Recess, which opened in August 2017, is an 18- Journalism to the B.A. in Journalism and Media . . . adds and-older nightclub that serves alcohol . . . on the site of what undergraduate and post-baccalaureate certificates in conflict had once housed Cuban’s rowdy Motley’s Pub. analysis and resolution, as well as diversity and intercultural competency . . . partners with Purdue Polytechnic Institute Q In a letter to the Indiana Daily Student , Provost Lauren on a 15-credit certificate in entrepreneurship. Robel wrote, “The events of the last week, which included gross and insensitive social media posts suggesting that ! Indiana University Bloomington’s School of Informatics patrons visit Recess for the ‘underage girls,’ and a flippant and Computing has been renamed the School of Informatics, reference to drinking to black out as a fun goal, have Computing and Engineering . . . and IUB’s School of Art and confirmed my deep concerns that the ownership is not Design has been renamed the School of Art, Architecture + serious about enforcing responsibility in its establishments .... Design. Alcohol abuse is a serious issue on every college campus, especially large ones.” Robel, a former law school dean, wrote IN Gifts & Fundraising . . . that she encourages students “to avoid places that make ! The Ivy Tech Community College Foundation receives a disrespect for women and for the safety of our community a donation of land from Eskenazi Family Foundation valued part of their marketing plans.” at more than $1 million. The land is the planned future location of the College’s new automotive technology center. IN Programs & Policy . . . The land, six acres total, is located at the home of a former ! Purdue University partners with Indian IT firm Infosys to Loews movie theater in Indianapolis. This gift will allow the provide workforce training for many of the 10,000 American College to move forward with its plans to build a new facility employees that Infosys plans to hire over the next two years. to house its Automotive Technology program in 2018. In Infosys announced in May that 2,000 of the new employees honor of the Eskenazis’ gift, the College plans to name the would be based at a new technology hub it plans to open in Illinois Street crosswalk on its downtown Indianapolis Indianapolis. Campus the “Sidney and Lois Eskenazi Pathway to Success.”

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Q Last year Ivy Tech received a $5 million gift from J. ! Governor Eric Holcomb (R) makes three reappointments Michael Jarvis , which will allow for the construction of the and two new appointments to the Indiana Education Savings Mike & Sandy Jarvis Automotive Technology Training Center Authority Board of Directors. Reappointed are Jay Collins , on the newly donated land. CFO of Estridge Homes; Martha Lamkin , retired president of the Lumina Foundation; and Amelia West , a Howell IN Construction & Facilities . . . Financial Advisors certified financial planner. Newly ! Indiana State University will move forward with $50 appointed to IESA are Indiana University Associate Vice million in renovations to the Hulman Center. A convention President James C. Kennedy , and Jason L. Kloth , president center will not be included in the project as originally of Ascend Indiana. All terms expire August 31, 2021. envisioned. Funding for the project will consist of $37.5 ! million of bonding authority eligible for fee-replacement as The Indiana Commission for Higher Education brings on authorized by the 2015 Indiana General Assembly and $12.5 John Johansson as the new communications director. He has million from cash, gifts, and non-state borrowing to be repaid held communications-related posts for the NCAA, Bureau of from University funds. Motor Vehicles, and DePauw University. ! Q The Vigo County Capital Improvement Board (CIB) was Purdue University Northwest names Richard Rupp , an crestfallen by ISU’s “unilateral decision to discontinue plans associate professor of political science, as chief of staff in the to build our community a convention center .... Their plans office of Chancellor Thomas L. Keon . Prior to entering to forgo the vision and lobby the state to release funds to ISU academia, Rupp worked on a variety of political campaigns alone for renovation purposes does not meet the intentions for U.S. House, senate, and president. of our promise.” ISU officials are hoping that a future second ! phase would include the convention center component as Ivy Tech Community College selects Mary Anne Sloan as originally envisioned. vice president for healthcare over the Schools of Health Sciences and Nursing. Most recently, Sloan served as a vice ! Purdue University football players were said to have been president at Thomas P. Miller and Associates (TPMA). Prior beside themselves with glee when they were introduced to the to TPMA, Sloan was at Purdue University for eight years, lavish new $65 million Football Performance Complex. with roles including managing director, Office of Corporate and Global Affairs, and director, Purdue Healthcare Advisors. She was also employed with United Healthcare and Arnett IN Research & Technology . . . Health Plans, both in Lafayette. ! The National Science Foundation awards Indiana University nearly $3 million to create a dual Ph.D. program ! Rachel Pease joins Indiana Tech as vice president for to train graduate students in both a specific discipline, such institutional advancement. Pease previously served as senior as psychology or political science, and in the complex advancement officer for Dickinson College in Carlisle, networks and systems track of the informatics Ph.D. program. . She takes over for Brian Engelhart , whose IU is one of only 17 institutions funded under the NSF grant previous role as vice president for university relations oversaw program this year. Tech’s development and marketing communications efforts. ! Engelhart remains at Indiana Tech in the new role of vice Mohamed Seleem , an associate professor of microbiology president for marketing and communications. in the Purdue University College of Veterinary Medicine, has been awarded a $1.6 million grant from the National ! Indiana University-Purdue University Fort Wayne names Institutes of Health to study whether two FDA-approved Shawna Squibb as the first director of alumni relations for drugs can be repurposed to treat life-threatening the Mastodon Alumni Association. She has served as associate drug-resistant bacteria. The NIH funding will focus on bursar for the past decade. repurposing one approved drug, auranofin, and one clinical molecule, ebselen. Preliminary testing has shown ebselen and ! Denis McDonough , former Obama Administration chief auranofin has been more effective than the current drug of of staff, becomes an executive fellow of the Global Policy choice, vancomycin. About 30% of drugs approved by the Initiative in the new Keough School of Global Affairs at the FDA are repurposed, but no drug has ever been repurposed University of Notre Dame. McDonough will serve as an as an antibacterial. instructor for the Keough School’s global policy seminar, teaching the inaugural cohort of 38 graduate students in the !IN Transition . . . new Master of Global Affairs program. Governor Eric Holcomb (R) names Regina Ashley , chief ! operations officer of the Indiana Department of Workforce Wabash College appoints Roland Morin as director of the Development, as interim DWD commissioner to replace Schroeder Center for Career Development. Morin will also Steve Braun , who left his post at the end of August . . . and continue to lead the Center for Innovation, Business and is expected to announce that he is running for open CD 04 Entrepreneurship (CIBE). He previously worked in the media seat in the U.S. House of Representatives. office for then-Gov. Michael Dukakis (D-MA) and as a senior Q vice president with Porter Novelli. Ashley has served as executive director of the State ! Workforce Innovation Council and deputy director for the Tusculum College announces James Hurley as its next Indiana Department of Child Services. president.

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Q Hurley is the former president of the University of Q The Horizon League seeks what it claims is a specified Pikeville in Kentucky, and he holds a Master of Science in $500,000 contractual termination fee and other damages. education degree from Indiana University. Valpo and the Valley Conference were facing a ! deadline to answer or otherwise respond of September 1, just Jacksonville University announces Randal Freebourn as its after we went to press with this issue. new chief financial officer. Freebourn is the former assistant vice chancellor for business services for Purdue University ! Calumet and former vice president for business affairs at St. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit on Joseph’s College in Rensselaer. Thursday sided with Indiana University (or at least we think they did!) and against a tenured Indiana University South ! The Ohio State University College of Food, Agricultural, Bend professor. Otis B. Grant was dismissed in 2011 for and Environmental Sciences tabs John Foltz as chair of the “serious misconduct” based on misrepresentations in his Department of Animal Sciences. He earned his Ph.D. in curriculum vitae. Grant v. The Trustees of Indiana University, agricultural economics from Purdue University. et al. , No. 16-1958. Q !IN Government . . . Grant sued the IU, trustees, and several IU employees, The first meeting of the Interim Study Committee on filing 26 claims related to race discrimination, retaliation, due Education reviewed access to higher education for illegal process violations, defamation, and breach of contract. Judge immigrants, an especially timely topic given reports that the Tanya Walton Pratt of the U.S. District Court for the White House may act in September to cancel the Deferred Southern District of Indiana partially granted the defendants’ Action for Childhood Arrival (DACA) program. Indianapolis immigration attorney Angela Adams , who previously served motion for judgment on the pleadings and later granted the as in-house counsel to Indiana University on immigration defendants’ motion for summary judgment on the remaining matters for three years, testified that Indiana, Georgia, and claims. “In viewing the evidence in the light most favorable Arizona are the only states that specifically prohibit in-state to Grant, we find that Grant has failed to produce admissible tuition rates for illegal immigrants. Indiana’s 2011 law evidence demonstrating there exists any disputed issue of fact conditions eligibility for in-state tuition on whether a student as to these five claims. So we affirm the district court’s is lawfully present in the country. DACA recipients do not judgment in the defendants’ favor,” writes Senior Judge Ann have lawful status, but are considered to be lawfully present, Claire Williams for the appellate panel. according to Adams, and therefore may be eligible for in-state Q tuition rates. Just under 18,000 individuals in Indiana have So why did we express some reservation over the panel’s been approved to date for DACA by the U.S. Citizenship and disposition? Judge Williams began her opinion with a Immigration Services (UCIS). The study committee meeting reference to “The University of Indiana South Bend” opened with comments from Rep. Earl Harris Jr. (D) of East dismissing Grant. Not until page seven does the judge Chicago, who made the original request that the matter be actually mention “Indiana University, Indiana University included on the interim agenda. The President promised South Bend, and the Trustees of Indiana University.” None during his campaign to revoke DACA. The General Assembly of the judges were IU alums, but Judge Williams earned her passed legislation in 2017 prohibiting state-supported colleges undergraduate degree from Wayne State University, a and universities from declaring sanctuary status. graduate degree from the University of , and her law ! As of the final week of August, Indiana received 93 degree from the . . . in South Bend! applications from employers seeking reimbursement through ! the Employer Training Grant. By sector, 48% of the Azhar Hussain , a former Indiana State University applications came from advanced manufacturing companies, professor, was sentenced to probation after pleading guilty to 22% were from building and construction firms, and 13% misdemeanor charges of obstruction of justice and were from IT companies. harassment. He had filed false reports of anti-Islamic threats against him. 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