The U.S. Census Bureau seeks to hire thousands of Americans in temporary positions for the 2020 Census count. Census results determine how many congressional seats each state receives and how billions of dollars of federal funding are distributed to states and communities. Carol O. Rogers, co-director of the Indiana University Business Research Center in the… Read more »
Engagement
CDFI Friendly Bloomington hires inaugural executive director
CDFI Friendly Bloomington, an innovative new organization focused on increasing access to flexible, affordable financing for community development, has hired Brian Payne as executive director. In this role, Payne will help community development financial institutions, or CDFIs, invest in affordable and workforce housing, small-business growth, and new community facilities in Bloomington, Monroe County and southwest-central… Read more »
Supporting student interest in innovation and entrepreneurship
During the first week of classes in the fall 2019 semester, experts in innovation, entrepreneurship and community engagement wrote about how IU campuses support students who are innovative and/or entrepreneurially minded. The original opinion pieces, posted on the Crimson Catalyst blog, can be read at the following links: “The upheaval in industrial innovation: Why IUPUI… Read more »
August 28 CREED meeting focused on strategies from Elevate Ventures, TechPoint and Center for Rural Engagement
By Kirsten Adams, Office of the Vice President for Government Relations and Economic Engagement, Indiana University The Indiana University Council for Regional Engagement and Economic Development, or CREED, held its third quarterly meeting of 2019 Aug. 28 on the IUPUI campus. Bill Stephan, IU vice president for government relations and economic engagement, highlighted the start… Read more »
Teaching with Technology: IU East students’ desire for innovative machinery impacts our community
By Timothy W. Scales, senior lecturer, School of Business and Economics, Indiana University East At the Center for Entrepreneurship at Indiana University East, we teach with technology. Sometimes it’s the instructor teaching the students and, other times, it’s the students teaching the instructor. Over the past few years, we have utilized new equipment such as… Read more »
IUPUI students help to catalyze Indianapolis neighborhood small businesses
By Teresa A. Bennett, assistant vice chancellor, Office of Community Engagement, IUPUI SOURCE River West Entrepreneurship Center was launched in 2016 out of a partnership between the IUPUI Office of Community Engagement, LISC and the Near West/River West Great Places 2020 leadership. It was created to fulfill the neighborhood’s desire for entrepreneurship and small-business education… Read more »
The upheaval in industrial innovation: Why IUPUI students are ready
By Lou Lenzi, professor of practice, School of Informatics and Computing, IUPUI Nearly every industry vertical, from the manufacture of hard goods to the delivery of services, is experiencing an upheaval of its traditional business models. New technologies, global competition, increasing environmental awareness and shifting demographics are but a few of the causes driving this… Read more »
IU researchers map global economy in collaboration with LinkedIn
A small team of researchers at Indiana University has created the first global map of labor flow in collaboration with the world’s largest professional social network, LinkedIn. The work is reported in the journal Nature Communications. The study’s lead authors are Jaehyuk Park and Ian Wood, Ph.D. students working with Yong Yeol “Y.Y.” Ahn, a professor at… Read more »
Indiana Data Partnership launch powers multi-sector collaboration
By Ashley Hungate, Management Performance Hub The Indiana Data Partnership is launching to empower collaboration among government, nonprofit and private-sector entities to drive positive change in key challenges impacting Hoosiers. IDP is an enhancement to the Indiana state government’s Management Performance Hub, which provides data analytics solutions tailored to address management and policy questions,… Read more »
Equipping the marketing toolbelt: IU Northwest expert leads workshops for nonprofit organizations
On May 13 and 17, almost two dozen nonprofit owners and managers attended workshops led by an Indiana University Northwest expert. They learned about traditional media and social media tools to better market their organizations. Subir Bandyopadhyay, a professor of marketing at IU Northwest’s School of Business and Economics, organized workshops titled “Bringing For-profit Marketing… Read more »