INDIANAPOLIS, Indiana, Jan. 5 -- The Indiana Bankers Association issued the following news release: Evan Hoffmeyer has been promoted to vice president of communications of the Indiana Bankers Association, effective Jan. 1. In this position he is responsible for all the IBA's print and digital communications, including serving as managing editor for the IBA's bimonthly Hoosier Banker magazine, script writing for the Association's three largest events, overseeing executive and advocacy messaging,  more

INDIANAPOLIS, Indiana, Jan. 3 -- The Indiana Chamber of Commerce issued the following news release: A new Ball State University study reveals substantial differences in academic performance and opportunity for students enrolled in the state's very smallest school districts versus districts with even modestly higher enrollment. Small school districts - those with under 2,000 total students - also are getting smaller, exacerbating the challenges facing their students. School Corporation Size and  more

INDIANAPOLIS, Indiana, Jan. 3 -- The Indiana Electric Cooperatives issued the following news release: Spring planting season has arrived -- which means many of Indiana's 94,000 farmers will be heading to and from the fields soon. Farming is one of the 10 most dangerous occupations in the United States. Along with the large, powerful machinery and equipment farmers work around daily, they also must move that equipment around power lines, and 62 farmers are electrocuted every year. Indiana Electr  more

NEW YORK, Jan. 6 -- The Manhattan Institute issued the following excerpts of a commentary to the New Criterion on Jan. 5, 2024: * * * "Shattered Consensus" Revisited By James Piereson Mitch Daniels, the former governor of Indiana and ex-president of Purdue University, recently penned a provocative article in The Washington Post acknowledging that he may have been too optimistic in thinking that the United States could navigate its political and financial problems without a major crisis. He w  more

INDIANAPOLIS, Indiana, Jan. 6 -- The Society of Broadcast Engineers issued the following news on Jan. 5, 2024: With the start of the new year 2024, the Society of Broadcast Engineers, the association for broadcast and multimedia technology professionals, celebrates its 60th anniversary. Officially founded on April 4, 1964, the SBE has grown from its humble beginnings when about 100 broadcast engineers gathered for a meeting at the NAB Convention in Chicago to providing a leading role in broadca  more

WASHINGTON, Jan. 3 (TNSres) -- The State Educational Technology Directors Association issued the following news release: SETDA, the principal non-profit association representing U.S. state and territorial educational technology and digital learning leaders, is pleased to announce its 2024 Board of Directors and Officers. Board officers assumed their one-year terms on January 1, 2024. SETDA 2024 BOARD OF DIRECTORS Officers: * Chair: Mindy Fiscus, Illinois State Board of Education * Chair-Ele  more