IU President Michael McRobbie published a commentary piece in US News & World Report in response to recent US actions to restrict immigration. A representative passage: Universities have always been truly international, with a tradition of opening their doors to the world, attracting scholars from every country and championing greater cultural and intellectual understanding, exchange… Read more »
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Senate Agenda, February 17, 2017
Spring Semester meetings are held at 1:30 pm in DW 1001. Call to order. Approval of the minutes of the January 20, 2017 meeting. The gift to the campus of Evie Barton and past Senate president David Barton. President’s remarks, including a remembrance of the contributions to this campus of Dr. Lester Wolfson, who served… Read more »
Graduation rates
Emeritus professor of history Roy Schreiber recently published a letter in the South Bend Tribune about graduation rates. He urged readers to consider that a four-year graduation rate may not be the most informative clue, especially when understood by itself. His full text: According to the AP report in The Tribune (Feb. 5), the graduation rate… Read more »
Resources for the February 17 discussion of Blueprint 2.0
This listing will grow into a fuller set of postings the days ahead. For starters, however, here is a two-page summary of Blueprint 2.0, meant to make it easier for any colleague to locate sections of this strategic plan of greatest interest. And then we have Blueprint 2.0 itself. This is the strategic plan for… Read more »
Summary of Blueprint 2.0
Blueprint 2.0 Summary Notes (by section) Overview (preceding the Table of Contents). This brief headnote explicitly ties regional campus progress to three particular sections of IU’s Bicentennial Strategic Plan and to a new commitment to collaboration between the regional campuses in order to achieve those and other goals in the years just ahead. The three… Read more »
A Message from the Chancellor – Immigration Executive Order
Chancellor Allison’s statement: For years, Indiana University South Bend has welcomed international students and scholars to campus to study, learn and teach. Today we have nearly 300 students of international origin who help enrich the education of all of us through their perspectives and experiences. In addition, IU South Bend has a number of faculty… Read more »
Indiana University responds
In Washington, this week’s Executive Order on immigration has raised discussion across the country. IU’s President McRobbie has released this statement on behalf of the university on the web and through an email to all faculty and staff. His text: At Indiana University, we embrace openness to the world. This has long been a hallmark of great… Read more »
Budget Hearings Schedule and Instructions
BUDGET HEARINGS SCHEDULE Alumni Room on the second floor of the Administration Building Monday, January 30, 2017 8:00 – 8:15 a.m. – Chancellor Allison – Welcome 8:15 – 8:45 a.m. – Jann Joseph, executive vice chancellor for Academic Affairs 9:00 – 9:30 a.m. – Elizabeth Dunn, dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences… Read more »
A Better Senate Documents Archive
Thanks to the good work of Scott Opasik, a large and growing number of Academic Senate documents are now preserved online in a more lasting and readily searchable pdf format in a Senate section of the AIM (Archives of Institutional Memory) archive system.
Sample Strategic Plan Section
Sample Strategic Planning Passage – Blueprint 2.0 – for the 1/20/2017 meeting Engagement and regional development. The Regional Campuses will be engaged in the lives of their communities, regions, and the state, and support development as part of their core mission. Action Items 5A. Partner with regional governments, schools, health care organizations, businesses, and others to… Read more »