Month: July 2017

The campus is launching an Engaged Faculty Fellows Program which will provide programming and mentoring for faculty who are eager to integrate community-based teaching in a course. The program will begin in Fall 2017 and conclude once the Fellow has taught his/her course (Fall 2018 or Spring 2019). Three mentors and three fellows will be… Read more »

Rick Kolbe, Dean of the Leighton School, is working to increase neighborhood connectedness and development of the River Park community. Such efforts would include economic development along the Mishawaka corridor as well as reducing barriers and increasing the contact points between the various entities in the neighborhood. Dr. Kolbe is interested in finding ways to… Read more »

Radiography students at IU South Bend are actively engaged with patients and the community by providing patient care through imaging services.  Within the last year,  student radiographers put in over 1,800 hours at area clinical facilities, according to Maryann Oake, Clinical Assistant Professor of Radiological Sciences.  In the final year of the program, students also… Read more »

Jay VanderVeen recently presented a paper about how archaeological field schools make more engaged citizens at a Twitter Conference on Public Archaeology. His findings suggest that the power of an archaeological field school can be more than an investigation into the past and training of specific excavation and analytical skills. It can also be positively… Read more »

Alison Stankrauff, Archivist and Associate Librarian, collaborated with the St. Joseph County Public Library and Civil Rights Heritage Center to obtain an Indiana Memory Digitization Grant, which they used to create Michiana Memories (http://michianamemory.sjcpl.org/cdm/landingpage/collection/p16827coll4), a website with local African American historical collections. Some of the items available on the website include photographs from the Dr…. Read more »