(BLOOMINGTON, Ind.) – Indiana University has announced incentives for students and staff to supply proof they’ve been vaccinated against COVID-19. The incentive program replaces a plan to require students to submit proof of vaccination. IU dialed back that plan on Tuesday, days after Senate Republicans and Attorney General Todd Rokita contended it would violate a […]
(INDIANAPOLIS) – More than 100 programs to help students make up lost ground this summer are receiving grants from the state. The $122 million in learning-loss grants will reach students in all but nine of Indiana’s 92 counties, to help those who fell behind when the pandemic moved classes online. There’s another $28 million to […]
(BLOOMINGTON, Ind.) – Indiana University is dialing back the COVID vaccination requirement it announced last week. IU will still require students and staff to be vaccinated to attend class on campus. But it won’t require them to prove it, a step Attorney General Todd Rokita last week argued would violate a new state law. Instead, […]
(INDIANAPOLIS) – The three COVID vaccines approved in the U.S. have what’s called an emergency use authorization. That doesn’t mean they’re not safe. Opponents of vaccines or vaccine requirements have increasingly emphasized the temporary nature of the authorization. A letter this week from 19 Indiana House Republicans to Governor Holcomb protesting Indiana University’s new vaccine […]
(SOUTHPORT, Ind.) – Two Indiana colleges are teaming up on an effort to recruit more teachers, by making a teaching degree more affordable. The new partnership between Ivy Tech and Marian University will allow students to take their first two years of base-level classes at lower-cost Ivy Tech, then complete their degree at Marian. They’ll […]
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind.–Purdue University is strongly encouraging their students to get a coronavirus vaccine, but not requiring them to do so for the upcoming fall semester. “The vaccines can no longer be called experimental. They’ve been administered to hundreds of millions of people and they work wondrously. They protect the person vaccinated and they protect […]
INDIANAPOLIS (WISH) — Every single teacher and staff member of Wayne Township Schools will get a pandemic bonus check. Theresa Rhinehart teaches third-graders at Robey Elementary School. She has taught at the school for about seven years. “It was surprising, but it really was thoughtful and it really touched my heart to know how blessed I […]
(BLOOMINGTON, Ind.) – Indiana University president Michael McRobbie says he hopes the university will agree he’s left it better than he found it when he became president 14 years ago. In his final State of the University address before his June 30 retirement, McRobbie noted the university has created nearly 600 new degree programs in […]
ARCADIA, Ind.— Jody Conaway’s world turned upside down on Saturday when she found out her daughter, Kalen Hart, and Hart’s boyfriend, Lendon Byram, would not make it over for pictures before prom. The couple died in a crash near the intersection of 281st Street and Lacy Road near Arcadia. Conaway said it was a night […]
ARCADIA, Ind.—Two students were killed in a crash when they were on their way to a prom Saturday night. Police say the crash happened around 5:15 pm near the intersection of 281st Street and Lacy Road, which is near State Road 213.  One of the vehicles involved was a Honda Accord with four students in […]
