| • Fifty years ago next month, the IU Board of Trustees established a new rank called Distinguished Professor to honor three eminent IU faculty members—Nobel Prize winner Herman Muller, renowned biologist Tracy Sonneborn and folklorist Stith Thompson. Read about two Distinguished Professors emeriti in today’s IU Home Pages. Read more at this Alliance for Distinguished Rank Professors:
http://www.indiana.edu/~alldrp/
• IU is Indiana’s fifth largest employer. The university budget is directly impacted by the rising cost of health-care benefits that is affecting all businesses, and the proposed budget framework is built with an 18 percent increase in health-care expenditures for the upcoming fiscal year. The cost of fire and casualty insurance for the university is rising 35 percent.
http://newsinfo.iu.edu/news/page/normal/952.html
• Eligible individuals may receive an IU subsidy toward the tuition costs associated with attending IU classes. Eligibility is open to employees, retirees, spouses/registered domestic partners, disabled former employees receiving long-term disability benefits and dependent children of current faculty and staff.
http://www.indiana.edu/~uhrs/benefits/fee_courtesy.html
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