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Wayne panel picks Nebraskan as president finalist

Last Updated: 9:36 AM 05/09/08 - A search committee has recommended a Nebraska doctor and university administrator to become Wayne State University's next president. (Full Story)
Two Indiana teachers honored for math, science work

Last Updated: 9:29 AM 05/09/08 - Two Indiana teachers are among 99 educators nationwide who are receiving the 2007 Presidential Award for Excellence in Mathematics and Science Teaching. (Full Story)
WaNee rallies behind teachers

Last Updated: 11:58 PM 05/05/08 - Teachers fight for a raise, their students, and in some cases, their jobs. (Full Story)
Air Force gives U-M-led team $6.8M for electronic heat study

Last Updated: 9:02 AM 05/05/08 - The U.S. Air Force has approved a $6.8-million, five-year study on how to control heat transmission as electronic devices keep shrinking. (Full Story)
Wayne State starts online degree program for librarians

Last Updated: 10:31 AM 05/01/08 - Students seeking a master's degree in library science from Wayne State University can earn one while sitting in front of their home computers, starting this fall. (Full Story)
No Child Left Behind faces changes

Last Updated: 11:55 AM 04/22/08 - Some changes are in the offing for the No Child Left Behind law. (Full Story)
MSU trustees consider $16 million addition to cyclotron

Last Updated: 10:23 AM 04/18/08 - Michigan State University's governing board is considering a proposal to spend $16 million for an addition to the school's National Superconducting Cyclotron Laboratory. (Full Story)
Pope: Catholic colleges should be in line with church

Last Updated: 8:57 AM 04/18/08 - Pope Benedict says academic freedom has "great value" for America's Roman Catholic colleges and universities. One of those at Benedict's speech was the Reverend John Jenkins, president of the University of Notre Dame who responded to the remarks. (Full Story)
Goshen school building plans suffer set-back

Last Updated: 7:17 PM 04/17/08 - The push to control property taxes in Indiana may have come to shove for the Goshen Community School System.
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Federal loans not an option for many junior college students

Last Updated: 9:19 AM 04/17/08 - For students who borrow for college, federal loans are usually the best deal. But a study suggests more than 1 million community college students, a disproportionate number of them minorities, can't get those loans because their schools aren't in the federal loan program. (Full Story)
Inauguration ceremonies for Purdue president cost $220,000

Last Updated: 9:37 AM 04/15/08 - Purdue University spent more than $220,000 for ceremonies to inaugurate new president France Cordova. (Full Story)
Security company pulls guards from East Chicago schools

Last Updated: 9:36 AM 04/15/08 - East Chicago police are patrolling the city's schools after security guards failed to show up for work. (Full Story)
South Bend Community Schools dropout statistics

Last Updated: 1:10 AM 04/15/08 - The dropout rate for South Bend Community Schools has been reported as high as 50 percent and as low as 5 percent. (Full Story)
Davenport University closing some locations in Michigan, Indiana

Last Updated: 9:12 AM 04/08/08 - Davenport University is closing some of its Michigan and Indiana locations. Eventually, the school will close its two Indiana campuses in Merrillville and South Bend. (Full Story)
Michigan fifth-grader finds 27-year-old Smithsonian mistake

Last Updated: 9:39 AM 04/03/08 - Millions of people have paraded past the Tower of Time exhibit at the Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History in Washington. (Full Story)
Indiana State University reopens search for president

Last Updated: 9:30 AM 04/03/08 - Indiana State University's search for its next president will take longer after one of two finalists dropped out for health reasons. (Full Story)
Cardinal McCarrick to give Notre Dame commencement speech

Last Updated: 9:14 AM 04/03/08 - A retired archbishop of Washington, D.C., will give the commencement address at the University of Notre Dame on May 18th. (Full Story)
Report: Low graduation rates in many city school districts

Last Updated: 9:02 AM 04/01/08 - A new report says 17 of the nation's 50 largest cities had high school graduation rates lower than 50 percent. (Full Story)
Indianapolis among school district with lowest graduation rates

Last Updated: 8:58 AM 04/01/08 - Seventeen of the nation's 50 largest cities had high school graduation rates lower than 50 percent, with the second-lowest graduation rates reported in Indianapolis. (Full Story)
New Buffalo middle schoolers show their smarts

Last Updated: 12:56 AM 03/27/08 - So you think you're smarter than your middle school child? Kids in New Buffalo think you should think again. (Full Story)
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