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(12/07/05 5:01am)
Interim IU-Bloomington Chancellor Ken Gros Louis outlined a plan to raise academic standards at the Bloomington Faculty Council meeting Tuesday.\n"The goal is to enhance the quality of the incoming freshman class while also maintaining access and diversity," Gros Louis said at the meeting.\nThe changes in standards will not be immediate.\n"Some of this really has to be spread over several years, because the expectations have to be known when you're a freshman in high school," Gros Louis said. \nHe added that the plan will be implemented mainly in the office of admissions, and will affect incoming freshmen.\nThere are now specific benchmarks for SAT scores and high school class ranks. Gros Louis said admissions officers will increase the top-25th percentile of SAT scores to between 1020 and 1050, and increase the 75th-percentile to between 1220 and 1260, excluding the new writing section. This year, students in the 75th-percentile of SAT scores averaged a score of 1230.\nGros Louis said it will be a challenge to raise the average SAT scores of incoming freshmen, given that the average SAT score for the state of Indiana was only 1012 for the 2004-2005 school year.\nThe raise in academic standards is coupled with an aggressive new recruiting strategy.\nGros Louis said the admissions office has already hired a full-time admissions employee "whose sole responsibility is to communicate with Indiana high school guidance counselors."\nThere is also a newly formed Bloomington marketing committee, whose job is to market the IUB campus separately from the rest of the University in order to attract higher profile applicants.\n"The focus will be on the quality, the strengths and the unique advantages of attending the Bloomington campus," Gros Louis said.\nAs a result of the campaign, the admissions office hopes to increase the number of students in the top 25 percent of their high school classes to 70 percent of incoming freshmen. About 66 percent of this year's freshmen were in the top 25 percent of their high school classes.\nGros Louis said he would also like the University to increase the number of underrepresented minority students from about 10.2 percent to 14 to 15 percent.\nThe University will also pursue more aggressive recruitment of international students, and, for the first time ever, will have a full-time employee dedicated to recruiting students from other countries.\n"We've not done that ever before," Gros Louis said, "but it seems the only way to ensure we maintain getting international students"
(12/05/05 5:06pm)
In the weeks following ongoing public criticism of IU President Adam Herbert from IU-Bloomington faculty, the University has announced more than $125 million in donations. Some faculty members have had mixed reactions to the recent successes in donations after criticizing what they had seen as Herbert's "poor job" of meeting with donors.\nIU received a $70 million anonymous donation Thursday -- the largest single donation from a private source in IU history. Herbert announced a $15 million endowment for the Cox Scholars program the same day. IUB also received $40.6 million for the Jacobs School of Music Nov. 17.\nFaculty members involved in the criticism had mixed reactions, saying they are glad IU has received so much gift money, but cautioned that it might not be due to a better performance from Herbert.\n"I think it's fabulous news that the money is coming," said law professor Fred Cate. "The president certainly gets credit for money that comes in on his watch."\nIU spokesman Larry MacIntyre said the president has an important role in the fund-raising process.\n"Fund-raising is a major responsibility for every university president," he said. He added that Herbert often talks with potential donors to discuss how the money will be used and to show appreciation on behalf of the University.\n"Sometimes only the president can tell them or give them the assurance they need that their gift is going to be used in the manner that they wish," he said.\nBut chemistry professor and METACyt CEO Ted Widlanski said an increase in donations does not necessarily mean a good performance from Herbert.\n"When an $85 million gift comes in, it comes in because of the hard work of a lot of people at the IU Foundation," said Widlanski. "The fact is that (Herbert) has done a very poor job over the last few years in a number of (fund-raising) instances."\nWidlanski was one of the authors of the METACyt grant proposal that yielded a $53 million grant -- at the time the largest in IUB's history -- from the Lilly Endowment last December.\nMembers of the Bloomington faculty held a special meeting Nov. 15, where they discussed several resolutions to be sent to the board of trustees. One resolution that passed cited "the President's repeated failure or reluctance to meet with donors and other key constituencies, and to respond promptly to communications from them."\nWidlanski said it takes years to develop gifts, and the president is usually involved only at the end of the process. He also said that even though recent donations have been large, it doesn't change the faculty's view on Herbert's performance.\n"The fact that these particular gifts worked out doesn't mean that other things weren't handled badly," he said.\nThe resolution to review the president was sent to the trustees last week after it was officially finalized. The trustees will meet Friday, and are expected to discuss the resolutions. Members of the faculty hope for a midterm review of Herbert, including input from faculty, students and other members of the IU community.
(12/05/05 5:06pm)
IU College of Arts and Sciences Dean Kumble Subbaswamy was named one of two final candidates for provost at the University of Kentucky Thursday.\nUK President Lee Todd announced the two final candidates in a campus-wide e-mail. He said both candidates will visit with faculty members and students. Subbaswamy will visit Dec. 12.\n"We feel fortunate to have two outstanding candidates, with impeccable credentials," said Jeannine Blackwell, dean of the UK graduate school and co-chair of the provost search committee. "They have excellent reputations, both as scholars and academic administrators, and have a proven record for engaging the communities their institutions serve."\nThe search committee spent several months working with an executive search firm to find qualified candidates for the position. The committee found 10 candidates, and after interviews, chose four to recommend to Todd. Todd chose two finalists and invited them for campus visits. \nThe new UK provost will replace Mike Nietzel, who left UK and became the president of Missouri State University in July.\nSubbaswamy was one of several final candidates for the position of IU-Bloomington chancellor and University-wide senior vice president for academic affairs, but was turned down by IU President Adam Herbert after the chancellor search committee named him a finalist. Herbert decided to continue the chancellor search after a 10-month search yielded three finalists, none of whom Herbert found to be acceptable.\nBlackwell said it can be difficult to find leaders with the right skills.\n"The ability to help manage and lead, in addition to articulating a compelling vision for the future, is essential," she said.\nThe announcement to continue the IUB chancellor search marked the beginning of a Bloomington faculty uproar and lead the faculty to hold special meetings and eventually pass two resolutions to be sent to the board of trustees. One resolution asks for a special review of Herbert by the board, and the other asks for the Bloomington campus's best interests to be the primary factor in selecting a new IUB chancellor.\nIU spokesman Larry MacIntyre said Herbert has no comment on Subbaswamy's candidacy for UK provost. Herbert has never acknowledged that Subbaswamy was a candidate for IUB chancellor.\nThe other candidate, Terry King, is the dean of engineering at Kansas State University.\nSubbaswamy was not available for comment by press time.
(12/02/05 9:26pm)
IU College of Arts and Sciences Dean Kumble Subbaswamy was named one of two\nfinal candidates for provost at the University of Kentucky Thursday.\nUK President Lee Todd announced the two final candidates in a campus-wide e-mail\nThursday. He said both candidates will visit with faculty members and students.\nSubbaswamy will visit Dec. 12.\n"We feel fortunate to have two outstanding candidates, with impeccable\ncredentials," said Jeannine Blackwell, dean of the UK graduate school and\nco-chair of the provost search committee. "They have excellent reputations,\nboth as scholars and academic administrators, and have a proven record for\nengaging the communities their institutions serve."\nThe new UK provost will replace Mike Nietzel, who left UK and became the\npresident of Missouri State University in July.\nSubbaswamy was one of several final candidates for the position of\nIU-Bloomington chancellor and University-wide senior vice president for\nacademic affairs, but was turned down by IU President Adam Herbert after the\nchancellor search committee named him a finalist. Herbert decided to continue\nthe chancellor search after a 10-month search yielded three finalists, none of\nwhom were found to be acceptable candidates.\nThe announcement to continue the IUB chancellor search marked the beginning of a\nBloomington faculty uproar and lead the faculty to hold special meetings and\neventually pass two resolutions to be sent to the board of trustees. One\nresolution asks for a special review of Herbert by the board, and the other\nasks for the Bloomington campus' best interests to be the primary factor in\nselecting a new IUB chancellor.\nIU spokesman Larry MacIntyre said Herbert has no comment on Subbaswamy's\ncandidacy for UK provost. Herbert has never acknowledged that Subbaswamy was a\ncandidate for IUB chancellor.\nThe other candidate, Terry King, is the dean of engineering at Kansas State\nUniversity.
(12/01/05 1:06am)
Barbara B. Jacobs died Tuesday morning just 12 days after giving a record $40.6 million to the IU School of Music. Jacobs, a 1948 IU graduate, died of cancer at age 79 in Cleveland.\nGwyn Richards, dean of the Jacobs School of Music, announced Jacobs' death in an e-mail to faculty, staff and students Tuesday.\n"Thanks to her legacy, the Jacobs School of Music will forever inspire and assist thousands of young musicians as they pursue a life in music," Richards said in the e-mail.\nThe gift is the largest gift from an individual ever given to a school of music at a public university, and the largest single gift ever given to IU by individuals. The money will be used for graduate student fellowships, undergraduate scholarships and endowed faculty positions.\nIn honor of the Jacobs family and their continued support of IU, the music school was renamed the IU Jacobs School of Music, and an official naming ceremony will be held in late February.\nJacobs was involved in IU affairs for decades. A member of the IU Foundation's Board of Directors from 1989 until her death, she helped raise more than $500 million for academic endowments, according to a press release. She was awarded an honorary doctorate in 2000 and received the Thomas Hart Benton Mural Medallion. Jacobs was also well known in Ohio and Florida for her longtime support of the arts, education and other philanthropic interests.\nRichards, IU President Adam Herbert and other University officials met with Jacobs in her home Nov. 16 to thank her for her gift and discuss its impact. Jacobs was able to see the official proceedings of the donation's announcement via a DVD specially made by the music school.\nDavid Jacobs Sr., Barbara's late husband, was instrumental in the revitalization of downtown Cleveland. He and his brother Richard owned the Cleveland Indians from 1986 to 2000, and Jacobs Field is named after the family. He built shopping centers, office buildings and hotels. David Jacobs Sr. died in 1992.\n"For more than five decades, Jacobs family members have been connected to the University as students, alumni, friends, volunteers and donors. Nothing speaks more strongly to their love for IU and commitment to its continued excellence than this extraordinary gift for the School of Music," said Curt Simic, president of the IU Foundation, in a Nov. 17 press release.\nJacobs graduated from IU in 1948. Her husband and two children also attended IU, and her son David Jr. was "instrumental in inspiring the gift" according to a Nov. 17 press release. David Jr. studied at the School of Music in the 1970s and was present for the Nov. 17 announcement.
(11/29/05 11:26pm)
Professors at IU's satellite campuses believe concerns of IU President Adam Herbert raised by IU-Bloomington faculty are important and say the criticisms are far less prevalent on the other campuses.\nFaculty members at IU-Purdue University Indianapolis, IU-Northwest Gary and IU-South Bend said they have concerns about the dual-role position of Bloomington chancellor and senior vice president for academic affairs, as well as about Herbert's visibility.\n"It is very natural that we want the president to be more visible on all campuses," said Bart Ng, president of the IUPUI Faculty Council and co-secretary of the University Faculty Council.\nHerbert lives and works on the Bloomington campus and is frequently more visible in Bloomington than on the satellite campuses.\nProfessors on other IU campuses said presidential attention is important, but the accompanying controversy is not always wanted.\n"The perspective of a regional campus over the years kind of swings between being grateful for staying under the radar of the politics and (between) concerns of the larger campuses and sometimes wishing that we had more attention," said Dave Vollrath, president of the IU-South Bend Academic Senate.\nFaculty members from satellite campuses say they, like members of the Bloomington faculty, have concerns about the dual position of Bloomington chancellor and University-wide senior vice president for academic affairs. While members of the Bloomington faculty said they believe a Bloomington chancellor might not be able to focus solely on Bloomington because of vice presidential duties, those at satellite campuses said a Bloomington chancellor might be too focused on Bloomington and might not be able to give full attention to other campuses in his or her role as senior vice president for academic affairs.\n"While the job might distract someone from being totally focused on Bloomington, it also might distract them from academic issues on a University level," Vollrath said.\nIn general, satellite campuses have not been as critical of Herbert as the Bloomington faculty has been.\n"We tend to separate what's going on in Bloomington," Ng said. "We are not as critical of President Herbert because there was no event to cause us to feel critical."\nHowever, events in Bloomington have been a topic of discussion.\n"There were a lot of e-mails going around, and all the articles from the Indiana Daily Student and the Indianapolis Star were being circulated," said George Bodmer, president of the IU-Northwest Faculty Organization. Though faculty criticism is not as prevalent as in Bloomington, professors are aware and interested in Bloomington events, he added.\nMembers of the Bloomington faculty criticized Herbert after he decided to continue the search for a Bloomington chancellor and senior vice president for academic affairs Oct. 31. The Bloomington faculty held a special meeting Nov. 15 and voted for several resolutions to be sent to the IU board of trustees. Two are close to being passed. One asks for a special review of Herbert by the board, and the other asks for Bloomington campus considerations to be the primary factor in selecting a new chancellor.
(11/29/05 11:26pm)
The IU-Bloomington faculty voted in favor a special review of IU President Adam Herbert by more than a three to one margin.\nThe official results of the vote were announced to the Bloomington faculty Tuesday.\nThe resolution is one of two resolutions to be sent to the IU board of trustees.\nThe other asks for Bloomington campus considerations to be the primary factor in the hiring of a new Bloomington chancellor and senior vice president for academic affairs.\nThe final vote count for the resolution asking for a review of Herbert was 754 in favor, 229 not in favor, and 75 abstaining.\nThe final tally for the resolution concerning the Bloomington chancellor was passed with 924 in favor and 93 not in favor, with 35 faculty members abstaining.\nA total of 1060 voting members of the faculty (67.3% of eligible faculty members) voted for or against at least one resolution.\nThe resolutions were presented at a Nov. 15 special meeting of the Bloomington faculty -- the first of its kind since 1986.\nSeveral other resolutions were scheduled to be presented, but were withdrawn before coming to a vote. One resolution asked for the immediate nomination of College of Arts and Sciences Kumble Subbaswamy as Bloomington chancellor and senior vice president for academic affairs. Another was a simple recognition of Subbaswamy's service to the school.\nThe special meeting of the faculty came after increasing criticism of Herbert prompted 131 professors to petition the Bloomington Faculty Council for a special meeting.\nThe criticism began after Herbert announced that the search for a new IUB chancellor and vice president for academic affairs would be continued after a 10-month search failed to find any acceptable candidates.\nHerbert was given a Jan. 1 deadline to find a new chancellor by the board of trustees at a Nov. 4 board meeting. The board unanimously passed a resolution in support of Herbert's decision, but noted that finding a new chancellor is a priority.
(11/21/05 4:34pm)
IU graduate student Koran Addo expected to see some "shocking things" on his class visit to the Katrina-ravaged South. He expected to see some "devastation." \n"But it was more shocking than I could have imagined," said Addo, who recently visited the hurricane-affected areas with his public affairs reporting class. "It was really almost too much to take in all at once."\nIU journalism professor Carol Polsgrove and her class returned to Bloomington Nov. 14 after a six-day trip through areas of the South destroyed by Hurricane Katrina.\nThe class of nine students conducted interviews and tried to take in the devastation they found, traveling from Jackson, Miss., to the Gulf Coast and eventually to New Orleans.\nThe students are in the process of writing articles for possible submission to various publications, including the Indiana Daily Student, the Bloomington Herald-Times, other Indiana newspapers and possibly national publications.\nStudents wanted to find stories that were "off the beaten path" of mainstream media. Some students toured American Indian homes, finding people that had received little or no support from the Federal Emergency Management Agency.\n"They still hadn't gotten any FEMA trailers, so they were living in their moldy houses," Polsgrove said.\nOther students investigated the tent cities and some of the more ravaged towns.\n"It was tragic, seeing neighborhoods deserted, seeing death tolls written on the sides of houses," Addo said.\nSome students took photographs of damaged areas.\n"One student took some photos in a moldy house without her mask on, when the family invited her," Polsgrove said.\nThe conditions in some of the more devastated areas were hard to take, some students said.\n"The mood, every day, just went downward, going from town to town," Addo said. "Some places didn't exist, some places were just wiped off the map, and other paces were just ghost towns."\nStudents said there is so much destruction that it is hard to see how the rebuilding process will work. Much of New Orleans is still without power. FEMA gave some people trailers for shelter, but citizens of New Orleans can't park them on their lawns because of power outages.\nPolsgrove said the lack of housing is hindering the rebuilding process.\n"It's hard to see how New Orleans will get going when there are no places for workpeople to stay," she said.\nMany of the roofs that were destroyed have not been repaired, and there are still large piles of debris littering the landscape. Polsgrove said many of the areas closer to the Gulf of Mexico were wiped out, but reinforced train tracks created a dike to stop the flow of some water inward.
(11/17/05 7:24pm)
Members of the IU board of trustees said Wednesday they will carefully consider any resolutions passed by the Bloomington faculty concerning IU-Bloomington's leadership.\nTwo resolutions are close to being passed, officials said during a press conference after a mass meeting of the IUB faculty Tuesday.\nOne resolution asks for a review of IU President Adam Herbert's performance. The other asks that the new IUB chancellor and senior vice president for academic affairs be selected with IUB's best interests in mind.\nThe mass meeting and resolutions came after increasing criticism of Herbert's performance prompted 131 professors to petition the Bloomington Faculty Council for a mass meeting of the faculty to discuss the issue.\nAt Tuesday's meeting, about 620 voting members of the faculty debated the resolutions. Because the rules of the meeting required 800 members of the faculty to be present to ratify any resolutions, the voting will continue by e-mail until early next week. At that time, if a majority of the voting faculty is in favor of passing the \nresolutions, they will be sent to the board of trustees.\nThe resolution asking for Herbert's review carries a list of alleged issues the president has handled poorly, including failing to find a candidate for IUB chancellor after a ten-month search and the absence of a full-time chancellor for more than two years.\nThe board of trustees unanimously passed a resolution in support of IU President Adam Herbert's decision to continue the chancellor search at their Nov. 4 meeting in Richmond, Ind.\nSix of nine trustees told the Indiana Daily Student they are undecided on whether they will vote for a special review of Herbert. They said they have not met to consider the resolutions, and will probably not do so until the next board of trustees meeting Dec. 8 and 9.\nTrustee William Cast said he would probably vote in favor of a review.\nTwo trustees, Cora Smith Breckenridge and Clarence Boone, were unavailable for comment by press time.\nA majority of trustees said they take the resolutions seriously, but are unsure about what action they might take.\n"When there are 600 members of the faculty saying something, we have to take it very seriously," board of trustees President Steve Ferguson said. Based on the televised comments he saw from faculty members after Tuesday's meeting, he said he believes the faculty had a strong statement.\n"We will give full and careful consideration to each recommendation," said trustee Casey Cox.\nCast added the board "would not ignore (the faculty), we would respond to the faculty."\nBut some trustees said reviewing the president is not high on their "to do" list.\n"We've got a limited amount of time, and reviewing the president is not highest priority. Getting a Bloomington chancellor is," said trustee Jeffrey Cohen, who added that the board reviews Herbert unofficially "every day."\nThe board of trustees looks at the job performance of the president on a yearly basis, but not in the same way the faculty is requesting. The faculty resolution asks for a comprehensive review with input from "all members of the Indiana University community and its external constituencies."\nBut the trustees said they don't believe the faculty is out of place in criticizing the president.\n"I understand that many professors have strong feelings," Cohen said. "All of the trustees share the concern that we need a chancellor in Bloomington soon."\n"We have a long tradition of shared governance," said trustee Pat Shoulders, who said he thinks the faculty was not out of bounds in their criticism of Herbert.\n-- Senior writer Mike Malik contributed to this report.
(11/15/05 5:48am)
"I think it's really important to split that into two jobs," said law professor Fred Cate in an interview last week. "There's no question that there's a conflict of interest."\nProfessors say the IUB chancellor should be focused completely on Bloomington. Advocating for other campuses can detract from Bloomington's best interests, they say.\n"This campus gets handcuffed by the fact that our chancellor has to represent the whole IU system," said chemistry professor Ted Widlanski in an interview last week.\nInterim IUB Chancellor Ken Gros Louis, who held both positions as full time chancellor for 21 years, said there is no need to split the positions.\n"The vice president's position probably takes no more than 10 percent of my time, and that includes things for Bloomington," he said. "If there were a vice president for academic affairs, the only way it could be a full-time job is if the person really meddled in everybody's business, including the Bloomington chancellor's."\nGros Louis said there are other advantages of having the jobs merged. As vice president for academic affairs, he said, he is a member of IU President Adam Herbert's cabinet.\nIU spokesman Larry MacIntyre said Herbert is not considering splitting the jobs.\nThe chancellor's primary responsibility is to coordinate most parts of IUB.\n"Everything except the physical plant and athletics is my responsibility," Gros Louis said.\nCampus leaders report to the chancellor, who oversees academic programs, special programs like the honors college and other administrative offices. There are a series of vice chancellors, in charge of smaller segments of the University, that report to the chancellor.\nThe chancellor is also responsible for conducting the searches for any vacant deanships or vice chancellorships.\nGros Louis, along with Dean of Students Richard McKaig, attends a lunch every three weeks to meet with student leaders. Students are able to voice concerns they have, and Gros Louis said if he or McKaig can't help them, students are directed to appropriate departments.\nThe chancellor also represents IU at various groundbreaking ceremonies, naming ceremonies and official functions.\n"From my perspective, the worst thing for the Bloomington campus is to have the vice president for academic affairs not also be the chancellor," Gros Louis said.\nFor the full text of all five resolutions to be considered at today's faculty meeting, visit www.idsnews.com.
(11/14/05 5:27am)
The agenda committee of the Bloomington Faculty Council announced a list of resolutions Friday to be considered by the faculty at a mass meeting Tuesday.\nThe most controversial resolutions concern the timely appointment of a new IU-Bloomington chancellor and senior vice president for academic affairs and a review of IU President Adam Herbert by the IU board of trustees.\nAnother resolution calls on the IU board of trustees to appoint College of Arts and Sciences Dean Kumble Subbaswamy as IUB chancellor. \nThe resolutions will be discussed and voted upon by faculty and associate faculty of the IUB campus.\nThe meeting was announced last week after growing faculty criticism of Herbert's performance prompted 133 professors to sign a petition for a mass meeting of the Bloomington faculty.\nThe resolution asking for a review of Herbert's performance cites "the president's repeated failure to address in a timely manner important matters that come before him," and a lack of visibility at public events as reasons for needing a review.\n"Many allegations have been made concerning the president," said Fred Cate, a law professor, who will introduce the resolution. "The first step is to determine if they are true." \nCate said it is the responsibility of the trustees to conduct such a review.\n"It is in the best interest of the University and the president that a careful review be conducted," said Cate, noting that the quickest way for the president to clear his name is to have the trustees conduct a review.\nAnother resolution to be considered at the meeting will involve the selection of a new IUB chancellor. IU spokesman Larry MacIntyre said it is doubtful Subbaswamy will be appointed chancellor, even if the resolution to have him appointed passes at the faculty meeting.\nMacIntyre said the president's decision to continue the search is "final," and that "past candidates are no longer on the table."\nSubbaswamy was one of several final candidates for the position until Herbert decided to restart the search two weeks ago.\nInterim IUB Chancellor Ken Gros Louis said it is the president's prerogative to turn down candidates, and Subbaswamy might not have been the right choice.\n"(Herbert and Subbaswamy) really have such different temperaments, there's not good chemistry between them. If the chemistry is not right, then he can't be successful in his job," he said.\nBut professors say they are right to criticize the president's decision.\n"Academic communities live by frank speech; we question freely and academic leadership understands this as a constructive part of an educational setting," East Asian Languages and Cultures and Philosophy Chair Bob Eno said in an e-mail. "President Herbert is himself very much an academic, and I'm sure he anticipated that his decision would result in much faculty comment."\nEno will present a resolution urging Herbert and the search committee to find a chancellor who can "provide focused leadership" and has IUB's interests at heart. \nThe final resolution asks the faculty to assess the impact of IU's current organizational structure as a whole, and whether it is beneficial to the Bloomington campus. Some professors said IUB is administrated as one part of a larger university and that there has been a "general decline" in the level of quality at IUB.\nMacIntyre said Herbert "would be entitled to attend the meeting" Tuesday and is "discussing the question with faculty members and members of the administration"
(11/11/05 5:43am)
IU President Adam Herbert gave interim IU-Bloomington Chancellor Ken Gros Louis a list of important issues to consider in the wake of his announcement to continue the search for a chancellor last week.\nOn the top of the list were appointments for three high-level University positions, including a new vice chancellor for enrollment services, a new graduate school dean and associate vice president for academic affairs, and a new director of the IU Faculty Colloquium on Excellence in Teaching.\nHerbert said in an Oct. 31 press release that he wants to maintain organizational momentum by continuing appointments and program evaluations, and that Gros Louis has handled the chancellor's responsibilities very capably.\nHerbert also said Gros Louis has done such a good job as interim chancellor that continuing the chancellor search would not interfere with University organization.\nAssuming Herbert and the IUB chancellor search committee find a candidate for chancellor by the Jan. 1 deadline set by the IU board of trustees Nov. 4, Gros Louis will have only a short amount of time to complete the searches.\n"I've always assumed that the appointments would be made by my successor," Gros Louis said in an e-mail Wednesday.\nGros Louis appointed search committees for each position after conferring with student groups and faculty members. These search committees will review candidates and make a recommendation to Gros Louis after the searches are complete.\n"The process is similar to most searches in that most are typically national in scope," he said.\nGros Louis noted, however, that the new director of FACET will most likely be appointed from within IU "because of the unique nature of that group."\nIU has been without a permanent vice chancellor for enrollment services since Donald Hossler resigned July 1. The vice chancellor for enrollment services is responsible for managing and overseeing student enrollment.\nA new graduate school dean would be charged with coordinating graduate programs at IUB.\nA new FACET director would be in charge of the group that promotes teaching excellence for all IU campuses.\nHerbert also charged Gros Louis with "enhancing admissions requirements for the Bloomington campus" and initiating "a more aggressive student recruiting program nationally, internationally and within Indiana."\nThe raising of academic standards is an issue that has been hotly debated by University leadership.\nGros Louis told the Indiana Daily Student last week that he wants to make sure IU "remains accessible" for students. He listed accessibility as one of three main goals for the University, along with quality and diversity, and said balancing all three is a difficult task.\nSome faculty members say IU's job is to be a university "for Indiana," and access should not be sacrificed for the sake of a more competitive admissions process.
(11/09/05 4:54am)
As state funding becomes a smaller proportion of IU's budget and admissions standards go up, IU is beginning to look more like a private institution. Tuition has been consistently going up and admissions standards might be raised.\nUniversity officials said IU is relying less on state funding than ever before. With state funding accounting for only 21.2 percent of budget revenues for the 2005-2006 school year, compared with about 47 percent in 1975, a higher proportion of revenue is coming from tuition, private funding and research grants, said to Interim IU-Bloomington Chancellor Ken Gros Louis.\n"Public institutions have little choice but to find ways of capturing lost income that are not coming from state or public funding," said George Kuh, the Chancellor's Professor of Higher Education and director of the Center for Postsecondary Research at IU.\nKuh added the proportion of university budgets from non-public funds has been rapidly increasingly for "10 or more years."\nPublic institutions have historically relied on state funding, and have been able to keep tuition down. Private institutions, however, have not relied on the state.\n"Private institutions have always depended on (other) sources because they've never had any state funding," said Cheryl Fields, director of public relations at the National Association of State Universities and Land-Grant Colleges in Washington, D.C.\nTrustee Tom Reilly Jr. said decreases in state appropriations mean that IU is "heading towards a privatized institution" because a large portion of funding comes from private donors and research grants, much like many private institutions.\nGros Louis said IU needs to keep tuition affordable for students, and state funds were significantly less than 25 years ago.\n"When I became chancellor in 1980, for every dollar students gave to IU in tuition, the state gave $1.70. This year, for every student, the state is giving 45 cents," he said.\nReilly said since so much funding comes from grants and donors, IU is becoming a more research-based, more graduate student-based, institution.\nReilly said undergraduate students are going to be more geared toward pursuing graduate studies, meaning academic standards for IU-Bloomington will rise.\nIU-Bloomington "will increasingly be working on the development of a higher academic standard for its undergraduates," he said. He also added that students who may not qualify for IU-Bloomington can receive an education at community colleges or IU's satellite campuses.\n"Those students that cruise into Bloomington with a so-so set of credentials, it doesn't mean they won't be able to get a degree," Reilly added. "It just means they'll get a degree from one of the satellite campuses."\nOthers disagree.\nKuh said "it does not serve the greater purpose for which IU was founded" to pursue a more selective student body, and that IU is and should remain a university for Indiana.\nGros Louis said there is a "tripod" of necessities for any university: quality, diversity and access. Access, Gros Louis said, relies on the ability of a large selection of students to come to IU, and relies on IU's affordability.\n"You can get (any) two of the three," he said, "but when you get two, the third suffers."\nState contributions to all public universities from state and local taxes nationwide declined from 74 percent in 1991 to 64 percent in 2004, according to The New York Times.\nPublic institutions across the nation are responding to dwindling state appropriations in different ways. Miami University (Ohio) set a single tuition rate, with no differential between in-state and out-of-state students, which enables the university to take in higher tuition totals. The University of Virginia asked the Commonwealth of Virginia for a charter specifying what the state is responsible for paying after appropriations fell to 8 percent of the total budget in 2004.\nNationwide, public universities are feeling less pressure to abide by state recommendations because a lower portion of funding comes from the government. At the same time, universities feel more pressure to attract wealthy donors, which means large donations are often restricted to specific purposes.\nAccording to the Indiana Commission for Higher Education, the only formal power granted to the state is approving or disapproving academic programs. The state can make recommendations on other issues, but all other powers are granted to the trustees of the universities.\n"It's just really a money game," Reilly said.
(11/08/05 5:34am)
Faculty members continued to raise questions about President Adam Herbert's leadership Monday, calling for a meeting of the faculty to discuss the state of the IU-Bloomington chancellor search and Herbert's role as IU president.\nBloomington Faculty Council President Ted Miller received a petition calling for a special meeting signed by 133 IUB faculty members. The faculty will meet at 3:30 p.m. Nov. 15 in the IU Auditorium.\nHerbert has come under increasing scrutiny from members of the faculty after rejecting the final candidates for IUB chancellor after a 10-month committee search.\nMany professors have said they are beginning to question Herbert's announcement last week to restart the search and want his presidency to be evaluated.\n"I think there is virtually unanimous support for this," said Fred Cate, law professor and co-chair of the Alliance of Distinguished and Titled Professors.\nCate wrote a letter on behalf of the alliance outlining problems with the chancellor search and Herbert's leadership, as well as recommendations to fix the problems. The letter is one of several sent to Herbert circulating among professors.\n"There is a general dissatisfaction with the president's job performance," said Ted Widlanski, chemistry professor and associate dean for research and infrastructure for the College of Arts and Sciences.\nWidlanski added that "the fact that the president made such a bizarre decision made people think twice about his leadership."\nSome faculty have also expressed discontent with Herbert's decision to reject COAS Dean Kumble Subbaswamy for the chancellor position. \nWidlanski thinks the new search will not be effective.\n"It's very unlikely that we'll pop out a stellar chancellor," he said. "Why should one suspect that an abbreviated search like this is going to do better?"\nThere is some question among chancellor search committee members that the Jan. 1 deadline set by trustees at their Friday meeting is unrealistic.\nSearch committee member and School of Public and Environmental Affairs professor Robert Kravchuk said there is "no way" they will be able to find an exceptional candidate by the start of the spring semester and said he is surprised the board of trustees didn't ask for input from the committee.\n"They didn't ask us where we stood," Kravchuk said. He added the trustees might have set a deadline, but said the committee will finish on its own deadline.\nSeveral professors think there needs to be an adjustment in the job description for the chancellor. The post has two titles -- IUB chancellor and senior vice president for academic affairs, a University-wide post with responsibilities to all the IU campuses.\nSome think the position's structure might lead to a conflict of interest because the chancellor cannot fully concentrate on the Bloomington campus.\n"I think the campus is better served by having a real advocate for the campus, and often those two jobs are in conflict," Cate said.\nIU spokesman Larry MacIntyre said Herbert had no comment in response to faculty criticism but noted the president would be meeting with several small groups of faculty members during the course of the week.\n"It's possible that the critics may want to change their minds" after speaking with Herbert, MacIntyre said.\nIUB has not had a permanent chancellor since October 2003, when Sharon Brehm resigned. Former IUB chancellor Ken Gros Louis has filled the position on an interim basis since November 2003.\nAccording to an e-mail circulated to faculty members Monday, 800 members of the faculty are required to be present at the BFC meeting Nov. 15 to ratify any action taken. Decisions must be ratified by a majority of the faculty present.
(11/07/05 5:47am)
Members of the search committee looking for the next Bloomington campus chancellor said it might be difficult to find a candidate for the position by the new Jan. 1 deadline laid down by the IU board of trustees.\nThe board unanimously passed a resolution Friday directing IU President Adam Herbert and the search committee to quickly find a permanent IUB chancellor and senior vice president for academic affairs for the University by the spring semester. Board members said they ideally wanted at least one candidate presented to IU President Adam Herbert by Jan. 1.\nBut with the holiday season approaching and committee members having prior commitments, it might be hard to expedite the search.\n"That time frame will be very challenging," said IUSA President and senior Alex Shortle.\nIn a statement to the board at their meeting at IU-East in Richmond, Trustee President Stephen Ferguson asked the 23 members of the chancellor search committee to "alter their personal schedules" to meet the deadline.\n"The search committee is made up of very busy people, and you also have the holidays coming," said trustee and search committee member Pat Shoulders.\nShoulders added he was only speaking for himself but said he can't drop everything to concentrate on the chancellor search.\n"These are two periods where people have made commitments to other things, so their ability to participate in the search is going to depend on that," said search committee chair Trevor Brown, the former dean of the School of Journalism.\nShortle said most committee members feel an obligation to make the search their "number one priority."\nBrown said members of the committee who are professors will have an especially hard time dropping everything to concentrate on the search.\n"We don't have choices academically," Brown said. "They can't drop everything to do this."\nBut Brown cautioned that might not be the trustees' intent.\n"I don't think that's what the board of trustees is asking," he said. "What they're simply asking is try to make as much time as possible to get this done."\nThere are also questions as to how it might be possible to find an acceptable candidate after a three-year search failed to find one.\n"They are positions that require people to make very difficult decisions in an environment of fewer and seemingly declining resources," said Brown, noting it is sometimes difficult to find qualified candidates willing to take the job. "It isn't automatically the case that you're going to have lots of people going for these jobs."\nThough the search was narrowed down to three finalists in October, none of the candidates were selected for the position. Search committee members said they are not sure whether they will see any of the same names on the new list of candidates.\n"Since the president asked for the search to continue, it would be my thinking that it would be new candidates," Shoulders said.\nBrown said candidates from the first search might come up again but said there were reasons past candidates were not selected and therefore might be turned down for the same reasons as in the first search.\n"I'm sure we'll hear names again," Shortle said.
(11/04/05 5:52am)
Nine IU journalism graduate students and a professor are traveling to Mississippi, the Gulf Coast and New Orleans Wednesday in an effort to report on recovery efforts several months after Hurricane Katrina devastated the region.\nJournalism professor Carol Polsgrove and her Public Affairs Reporting class will drive to Mississippi and will return Nov. 14.\n"We want to get as much done as we can in a really short period of time, looking at stories that didn't get much attention in the mainstream media," Polsgrove said. "What we hear from people down there is that things are still very, very difficult for a lot of people."\nThe students will report and write stories about issues like the destruction of historical records, the fate of foster children displaced by the hurricane, labor issues and disruption to higher education, Polsgrove said.\n"It's focusing on the rural areas where there has been less aid and journalistic coverage," said Ashley Wilkerson, a student in the class and Indiana Daily Student photographer.\nThe students will drive from Bloomington to Jackson and Hattiesburg, Miss., then along the Gulf Coast and eventually to New Orleans.\n"When it started it was just going to be the tent city," said Rich Powell, another student in the class. "But the New York Times did that exact story after we thought of it."\nThe trip evolved out of a class discussion. Polsgrove told the class that in the past, students would have just hopped into a van and driven down, Powell said.\nPowell said he and his classmates thought it was a good idea, and within a few weeks, Polsgrove had gotten permission and funding for the trip.\nThe students will be driving their own cars and staying in hotels, though Polsgrove said several students are considering spending a night in one of the tent cities.\nThe students plan on getting their stories published. Polsgrove said local news outlets have expressed some interest in their pieces and some students will even try to pitch their articles to national publications.
(11/01/05 5:35am)
Students who were mistakenly handcuffed and searched after a Sept. 18 dance at the Indiana Memorial Union are disappointed with the results of an IU Police Department investigation of their cases. \nBut the students are aware officers were following IUPD protocols and expected an internal investigation to recommend no action against the officers involved.\n"I expected this to be the outcome," said junior Kenneth Williams, a student who filed complaints against IUPD. "It isn't realistic to think an internal investigation within the IU Police Department would reveal any misconduct."\nSenior Leila Price and her friends were leaving the Indiana Memorial Union after an Alpha Phi Alpha dance early in the morning of Sept. 18. Suddenly, they heard yelling about a gun. They got in their car in the School of Health, Physical Education and Recreation parking lot, but just as they were buckling their seatbelts, red and blue lights started flashing behind them.\nPolice were responding to a \nreport of a man carrying a gun outside the party.\n"They can't be talking to us," Price said she thought at the time, according to an official complaint filed with the IUPD.\nBut they were. IUPD officers removed Price, Williams and seniors C'iara Fossett and Christopher Rice from the vehicle at gunpoint.\n"They took me to the nearest grass area and put me face down in the dirt," Williams wrote in his formal complaint.\nThe students were repeatedly told to "be quiet" and "shut up" while they were searched without explanation, according to the complaints. After police failed to find a weapon on any of the occupants of the vehicle, Price and her friends were released without an apology, according to the complaints.\nAfter being urged by IUPD officials, the Black Student Union and the IU chapter of the National Panhellenic Association, the four students filed formal complaints against IUPD, alleging officers treated them unfairly.\n"The actions of the officers adhered to the training they received," said IUPD Lt. Jerry Minger of the incident. Minger said the police department wishes "that incidents like that didn't occur," but that when officers receive reports of weapons, they take the reports seriously and respond with the information they have.\n"We were pointed out. We didn't know why," Price said in an interview.\nRice added they were "harassed for no reason," and said he believes the police used racial profiling in identifying the suspects.\nPrice also said race might have been a factor in the search. She also said she believes there is a problem between IUPD and the black community.\n"It seems as though there always a conflict or a contradiction between us," Price said.\nEven a month after meeting with IUPD Capt. Keith Cash, Price said there are issues yet to be settled.\nThere are "little things that have build up over time," Price said. \nPolice shut down the Sept. 18 party in the IMU after two officers were shoved while removing unwelcome guests.\nEric Love, adviser to the BSU and director of the Office of Diversity Education, said he is aware the police responded using preset protocols, but said he still isn't sure the response was appropriate.\n"From the outside, it still really looks like it was excessive -- I'm not sure I could imagine the same imagery with white students on the ground," Love said.\nWilliams agreed.\n"At the very least, I don't feel guns would have been pulled as quickly on two white men walking with two white women in the same situation," he said. \nPrice blames IUPD for the incident in the School of HPER's parking lot, saying officers didn't react quickly enough to problems and that the dance could have continued if officers responded to troublemakers before it got out of hand.\nRice said he doesn't dwell on the incident a lot.\n"The only time I think about it is when people bring it up," he said.\n-- Staff Writer James Klaunig Jr. contributed to this report.
(10/28/05 5:45pm)
Faced with budget problems, IU is likely to consider raising tuition higher than last year's increase, trustees said Tuesday.\nIncreased costs and a shortfall in state funding have already left the University short of money for maintenance and repairs. Trustees said raising tuition would be a viable option to solve the budget problem.\nPatrick Shoulders, vice president of the IU board of trustees, said it is "likely that there could be an incremental increase" in tuition beyond 4.9 percent, the increase from last year. Shoulders said the tuition increase would be in the range of hundreds of dollars, and would go toward maintenance and repair of University facilities at IU.\nIU received about $2.7 million for maintenance between 2001 and 2005 -- more than $77 million short of what was originally appropriated. Reports indicate that money was cut from maintenance and repairs because of slow growth in Indiana's economy.\nTrustee President Stephen Ferguson said the University simply needs more money to operate effectively. As for getting the money, Ferguson said, "I don't see an alternative other than raising tuition." He did not cite any specific increases.\nInterim IU-Bloomington Chancellor Ken Gros Louis said an additional maintenance fee is a possibility, as is taking a portion of scheduled tuition increases and setting it aside for maintenance. But he added there are worries the implementation of a student maintenance fee could lead to less assistance from the state.\nPurdue University will institute a repair fee of $250 per year starting for freshmen in the fall of 2006.\nOther trustees echoed the idea that an incremental increase is possible, but noted that it is too early to speculate about any specific increase because the budget is not compiled until the spring.\n"I think it's possible," said trustee Jeffrey Cohen. He added that "there are only so many sources of funding" for university education.\nIU has historically been one of the least expensive schools in the Big Ten. Tuition for the 2005-2006 school year is on the lower end of the spectrum, with IU ranking fourth cheapest for in-state students and third cheapest for out-of-state students in the Big Ten.\nIU had the second smallest tuition increase by percentage between the 2004-2005 and 2005-2006 school years. Its 4.9-percent increase compares to Michigan's tuition increase of 12.3 percent last year and Michigan State's 12.6 percent rise. A recent College Board report said average tuition at public universities nationwide went up by 7.1 percent last year.\nSeveral trustees said keeping tuition low is a priority, noting that they want to maintain high academic standards without a substantial tuition increase.\n"You would like to attract people by having equipment that is current," trustee William Cast said. \nCast added that it costs a lot of money to get the latest equipment and attract top professors and lecturers to IU.\nTrustee Cora Smith Breckenridge said the last thing she wants to do is increase the cost of attending IU. "Whatever we have to do (to prevent tuition increases), I'm a supporter," she said. \nTrustee and student representative Casey Cox said the only valid reason he sees to raise tuition is to further IU's academic standing.\nGros Louis called the situation with state appropriations a "severe problem, especially on the Bloomington campus," and mentioned that many buildings in need of repair become more expensive to fix as time passes.
(10/28/05 4:43am)
A polarization of issues has caused inefficiency in American public policy, said a former vice chair of the Federal Reserve Board of Governors.\nAlice Rivlin, a prominent Washington figure who has been involved in the Federal Reserve, the White House Office of Management and Budget and the Congressional Budget Office, spoke to about 75 students and professors Thursday in the School of Public and Environmental Affairs atrium about polarization in today's political discourse.\n"I am profoundly worried, even frightened, that our policy process will prove unequal to the task ahead," Rivlin said. "America appears polarized into non-communicating blocks that make us increasingly unable to engage in civil discourse" about important issues the government has to consider.\nRivlin, a Bloomington native, said politicians are more polarized in their discourse, which creates a communications divide, but emphasized that the two major parties are not actually that far apart in ideology. She believes if politicians could get past the partisanship that is so prevalent in Washington, a lot more could be accomplished on major issues.\n"The chronicle of her career is nothing short of breathtaking," said SPEA Dean Astrid Merget. Astrid added that Rivlin is a model for careers in public policy.\nRivlin said she believes public policy schools like SPEA must take the initiative in reshaping the structure of political discourse.\n"I nominate the public policy schools to organize a high profile, visible national campaign to restore civil discourse and turn partisan posturing into dialogue," she said.\nBut she noted it would not be easy, saying that it would take a "serious commitment" of University officials, students and faculty to bring about any serious change.\nA longtime opponent of conservative fiscal policy, Rivlin criticized President Bush's tax cuts in her 2004 book "Restoring Fiscal Sanity."\nRivlin was vice chair of the Federal Reserve Board of Governors from 1996 to 1999. She worked closely with Fed Chairman Alan Greenspan, who will retire in January after more than 18 years in the position.\n"He's sort of become a mythic figure," Rivlin said of the aging chairman. The President has nominated Ben Bernanke, a senior White House advisor, to the position. Rivlin said she is happy with the nomination.\nA graduate of Bryn Mawr College in Pennsylvania, Rivlin studied economics, and even took an economics course at IU one summer. Her father, an IU physics professor, developed his department's first cyclotron.\nRivlin grew up on east 10th street and is visiting Bloomington for her high school reunion.
(10/27/05 5:02am)
Bloomington native Alice Rivlin, former vice chair of the Federal Reserve Board of Governors and Brookings Institution Scholar, will speak Thursday at the School of Public and Environmental Affairs.\nRivlin will discuss the question "Are we too polarized to make public decisions?" at 5:30 p.m. in the SPEA atrium.\n"I'm very worried that public debate has become polarized and extremely partisan," Rivlin told the Indiana Daily Student Wednesday. She said her speech will address why political rhetoric has become so polarized and her ideas for fixing the problem. She believes politicians need to avoid partisanship and make compromises.\n"I'm rather mystified by why we perceive we are so polarized," she said, noting though rhetoric has become very polarized, American politics are not as split as politicians and the media make them out to be.\nRivlin, whose father was an IU physics professor, was the founding director of the Congressional Budget Office in 1975 and director of the White House Office of Management and Budget under former President Clinton.\nRivlin, a graduate of Bryn Mawr College in Pennsylvania, took a summer economics class at IU.\nAn expert in economic and public policy, Rivlin is currently working on projects aimed at balancing the federal budget and improving public policy in the Washington, D.C., metro area.\nAs vice chair of the Federal Reserve Board of Governors, Rivlin worked closely with Alan Greenspan, who is preparing to step down as Fed chairman after more than 18 years.\n"He's sort of become a mythic figure," Rivlin said. \nRivlin said she is happy with President Bush's nomination of senior White House adviser Ben Bernanke to replace Greenspan.\nLong an opponent of the Bush administration's monetary and economic policy, Rivlin's 2004 book "Restoring Fiscal Sanity" criticizes Bush for overspending and undertaxing.\n"We will either have to raise taxes, cut federal spending drastically or break the promises we made to the older segment of the population," she said.