Welcome to IU South Bend’s blog on community engagement! Our goal is to increase awareness of IU South Bend’s community-engaged work and to support the learning community developing around this work. Posts by faculty, staff, students, and community partners will explore different aspects of community-engaged teaching and research, and offer advice on how to maximize… Read more »

Would you like to meet with John Reiff while he is visiting our campus? Dr. Reiff has worked with civic engagement and service-learning for over 35 years as a college teacher, administrator, scholar, consultant, and organizer.  He welcomes the opportunity to meet with individuals or teams to discuss ideas for community projects or challenges you… Read more »

When the spring semester sneaks up on junior or senior public relations majors at IU South Bend, they are immersed in more than just an upper level mass communication course; they create an actual public relations campaign for a local non-profit organization.  This year, students worked on a campaign for Mosaic, a non-profit organization that… Read more »

Applications for the Engaged Faculty Fellows Program are due on Friday, September 8th. Please note that the stipends for both Mentors and Fellows have increased since this call first went out. Gail Engaged Faculty Fellows Program accepting applications for Fall 2017 The campus is launching an Engaged Faculty Fellows Program which will provide programming and… Read more »

Indiana Campus Compact’s Fall Kick-Off Retreat will be held in Indianapolis on September 15 from 8:00-3:30.   The retreat is an opportunity to network with faculty and staff who are working in the area of community engagement, and to deepen your understanding of community engagement. If you are interested in registering for this free event, click… Read more »

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 »