Indiana’s Commission for Higher Education has asked the state’s public colleges and universities to hold tuition increases to the rate of economic inflation.
Politically, the benefits of cutting summer tuition for Indiana University administrators are clear: the move quiets criticism from state lawmakers over rising costs of attendance. Financially, though, the benefits of a 25 percent cut to summer school tuition for in-state undergraduates are harder to calculate. If university officials’ projection of a 10 percent bump in [...]
Indiana University’s president and the Higher Education Commissioner weren’t only announcing summer school tuition cuts Monday. They were declaring a political ceasefire.
The Communication Workers of America Local 4730 released a statement outlining their concerns about the future of Indiana University, just hours before IU President Michael McRobbie’s annual “State of the University” address.
Without naming specific figures, president Michael McRobbie said Indiana University may be on pace to set records in student enrollment for the school year set to begin next week on some campuses. “We are certainly seeing numbers that indicate, if you talk about education as a product, we have a product people want, and they [...]
There’s a neat infographic in this morning’s Indiana Daily Student showing how IU president Michael McRobbie’s salary stacks up against his peers in the Big 10 after news of his pay increase earlier this week. While I thought it was a tad confusing because it compared old data from other universities while factoring in an [...]
The Indiana Daily Student reports: IU President Michael McRobbie will earn $533,120 for the 2011 to 2012 school year, according to the University’s annual salary report. The new amount is a 12 percent increase over the $476,000 that McRobbie earned last year.
IU employee salaries could see a slight bump if trustees meeting in South Bend approve next year’s budget, president Michael McRobbie announced Thursday. The budget includes funds for a 1.5 percent employee salary increase, and a “1 percent pool” to retain faculty at IUPUI and the Bloomington campus. In an e-mail to employees, McRobbie said [...]
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