Initially, that speed will be used to connect 130 U.S. universities to each other, enabling researchers to conduct virtual experiments, build digital libraries and exchange data in video and 3-D formats. According to the University Corporation for Advanced Internet Development, Internet2 will eventually produce new technologies that should enhance the current Internet as well. Rankings are based on a complicated formula involving graduation rates, financial resources, admissions requirements, faculty size, and academic reputation among leaders at peer institutions. The third tier includes universities ranked 118 to 172. We're in good company - an indicator of our growing status nationally among urban universities.
Individual schools continue to improve their rankings.
The IU School of Social Work is now among the top 50. Currently ranking 12th, the IU School of Nursing is up from 14th in 1996 and 16th in 1994, moving rapidly toward its goal of joining UCLA, Case Western, and the Universities of Illinois and Michigan in the top 10 of nursing schools by the year 2000. Bill is executive director of the White River State Park Development Commission and has extensive experience in the public and private sectors. For nearly two decades, he was a plant engineer and consultant for Ameritech. In 1989, he joined Gov. Evan Bayh's senior staff as executive assistant for local government and, in 1994, was appointed to head the Indiana Department of Administration.