Martin University

Eastern Star Church closed on a deal to acquire the real estate portfolio of Martin University, which closed abruptly earlier this year.

The class action lawsuit alleges Martin failed to refund students’ tuition and financial aid.

The university campus was listed for sale earlier this year for $3.5 million.

Last December, Martin University, Indiana’s only predominantly Black college, announced it would close. The school was founded by the late activist and Catholic priest Boniface Hardin, with a mission to serve students historically excluded from higher education.

Three weeks after announcing a “pause in operations,” Martin University’s board of trustees announced in a letter published in the Indianapolis Recorder that the college is closing its doors for good.

The call comes after Martin announced Dec. 9 the university would close.

Martin University will pause operations at the end of the current semester due to ongoing financial and enrollment challenges, the Board of Trustees announced.

The Second Chance Expo helps recently incarcerated people in Indianapolis find community support services.

An Indianapolis Democrat blasted Gov. Mike Braun’s first budget proposal as racist. Braun’s proposed budget would not fund the state’s only predominantly Black university or a state grant program designed to get more first-generation and minority students to college.

A new free preschool program is opening on Indianapolis’s east side. Martin University is launching the program Monday, September 9, for children 3 and 4 years old will be able to participate in the one-year program.