Last fall, the Sierra Club began pressuring a handful of colleges to end their use of coal. Indiana University, with its coal-fueled Central Heating Plant, was one of the schools targeted. Since then, students on campus have held rallies, collected thousands of signatures, and tried to sway IU administration in face-to-face meetings.
With winter nearing its end, Indiana University’s coal-powered heating plant will scale down its operations. But it will ramp it up again and again until the university decides otherwise. That’s led groups to call on IU to transition away from burning coal in the middle of campus. WFIU’s Daniel Robison explores what’s become a burning issue.
The Indiana National Guard 1-19th Agribusiness Development Team, or ADT, has finished its mission to Afghanistan. In this final segment of WFIU’s series, “Cultivating Afghanistan,” Douglas Wissing reports on the team’s homecoming.
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The Indiana National Guard has made a five-year commitment to agricultural development in Khost Province, Afghanistan. As the first Agribusiness Development Team, or ADT, finishes up its deployment, the second ADT organizes to replace them.
Counselors often tell soldiers the price is freedom is high—very high. Not just for the soldiers, but also for their families.
For the better part of the last two decades, Indiana University’s Atkins Center has kept up the mission of its namesake by partnering with grade schools to offer mentoring and guidance from minority students at IU to a younger generation.
It’s been almost ten years since lawmakers passed the federal No Child Left Behind Act, but experts say test results show the law has failed to close the education gap.
In his first State of University address since October 2008, IU President Michael McRobbie spoke of the many things that have changed in Bloomington and the country in the past 16 months. Among them: the relationship between the university and the state, especially in terms of funding. WFIU’s Daniel Robison has more.
Speaking during his second State of the University address Tuesday, McRobbie says the New Academic Directions Committee could also restructure existing programs across IU’s nine campuses.
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