Soil samples at East Chicago's Carrie Gosch Elementary School tested at dangerous lead levels. So the decision was made to move the hundreds of students to a former middle school located across town.

Representatives from Ivy Tech and several other schools, including Indiana Wesleyan University and Grace College, will be at the Sept. 28 event at Ivy Tech's Illinois Fall Creek Center in Indianapolis.

A small group of public and private Indiana colleges say they’ll waive fees and evaluate credits earned by former ITT Tech students to help them finish degrees or transfer to another program.

The Carmel-based company that operates ITT Technical Institute announced Tuesday that all of their campuses will close, following a set of crippling federal sanctions.

The Carmel-based for-profit college chain said in a statement Tuesday that it is ending academic operations at all of its campuses across 38 states.

Researchers at the new Indiana Corn and Soybean Innovation Center will study the growing habits of cash crops at the school's 1,400-acre research farm.

The plans approved Monday call for the nearly 40,000 square-foot simulated mine to be built at the school's Gibson County Center for Advanced Manufacturing and Logistics near Fort Branch.

Funding for the new 7,300-square-foot facility will come from the university's capital funds. Construction is tentatively set to begin in February, with completion expected by January 2018.

The land donation follows the farmer's 2014 gift of $2 million in stock to the 1,000-student liberal-arts college.