Education

Purdue University North Central set all-time enrollment and credit hour records this fall. The 2009 - 2010 academic year opened Monday, Aug. 24 with a record 4,463 students enrolled in a record 46,594 credit hours for the fall semester.This...

Northview Elementary School will host the first annual Laps for Learning event. At 2pm on Friday, September 18, 320 students from the school will participate in the event to raise money for the school’s Parent-Teacher Organization. Students will...

Student teaching has been going very well and I am enjoying every minute of it. It can often be exhausting. I often come home with a huge headache and have to make a strategic withdrawal to my bed for a few hours before waking up and getting some...

Indiana University Northwest will mark the 50th Anniversary on its Broadway campus with a free, family-oriented event on Friday, Sept. 18, from 12 p.m. until 6 p.m. There will be free food, games, prizes, and live entertainment throughout the day....

Purdue University North Central will present a Brownbag Series in the coming months, with PNC faculty, staff and community members leading programs that center on the topic of "diversity."The seminars will vary in style and subject, but all will...

The Purdue University North Central American Sign Language Club will host a Silent Tea on Monday, Sept. 21 from 6 to 8 p.m. in the Library-Student-Faculty Building Assembly Hall Room 02 on campus. The tea will open to PNC students as well as...

Indiana University Northwest announced on Sept. 11 that its Fall 2009 enrollment numbers have jumped 16 percent from a year ago, for a total of 5,560 students. An official student census released this week showed that total credit hours taken at IU...

Purdue University will use a Hewlett-Packard grant to develop and test a new teaching approach designed to boost the academic success of underrepresented minorities in engineering programs. The teaching method represents a potential new model for...

The Purdue University North Central American Sign Language Club will host a Silent Coffee House on Friday, Sept. 18, from 6 to 9 p.m. at Evelyn Bay Company, 3800 Calumet Ave., Valparaiso. The event is open to ASL students as well as community...

The Northwestern Indiana Roofing Contractors Association announces the recipients of its 2009 Scholarship Program. Seven scholarships have been awarded to northwest Indiana students by the Northwestern Indiana Roofing Contractors Association in...