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.
Bloomington's mayor agrees that the sale of the John Waldron Arts Center could be disastrous for radio station WFHB if done the wrong way, but is vowing to work on the station's behalf with the building's next owner.
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.
In order to help settle the Bloomington Area Arts Council's six-figure debt obligation, the city of Bloomington has agreed to temporarily purchase the John Waldron Arts Center. But the fate of a local radio station could hang on the future owner of the property.
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.
Monroe County officials say they’ve come up with a way to save about $60,000 a year by starting a health clinic. WFIU's Regan McCarthy has more.
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.
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