Trustees approve plans for $69.5M medical campus in Evansville
Apr 13, 2014 11:11 pmThe city of Evansville will get a new school, and Bloomington’s campus will get new gateways, the Board of Trustees decided at Friday’s meeting.
The city of Evansville will get a new school, and Bloomington’s campus will get new gateways, the Board of Trustees decided at Friday’s meeting.
IU has reviewed and updated its Programs Involving Children policy.
The Board of Trustees approved a proposed IU School of Medicine in Evansville on Friday.
In a meeting Thursday to present the goals of the slate that will run in upcoming BFC elections, faculty discussed the lack of faculty governance at IU and how they might go about becoming more involved.
The Bloomington Faculty Council made changes to the tenure and promotional policy for IU at a meeting Tuesday.
The Residence Hall Association has elected a new executive board.
President Barack Obama announced in January that one in five women — 20 percent — are sexually assaulted during their time at college. Leslie Fasone, new assistant dean in the division of student affairs, wants to lower that percentage at IU.
The IU Kelley School of Business will honor six alumni at the 45th Annual Awards Gala Friday in Indianapolis.
The IU Admissions Twitter account was hacked Saturday, and the hacker is still unknown. Account administrators had to change security settings and delete hundreds of spam tweets.
Those who want their voices heard have less than a week until the draft of the Strategic Plan is closed for public comment. After March 19, the Strategic Plan will be finalized, and public comment as it is now will no longer be available.
The plan has a financial pool of various funding resources behind it, most public of which is the Provost Fund.
The provost’s Strategic Plan is seeking to make interdisciplinary education more accessible with the creation of unique academic programs.
Campus driving service Safety Escort might soon incorporate some of SafeRide’s most popular features.
In keeping with its goal to increase the number of underrepresented minorities on IU’s campus, the Office of Enrollment Management has hired a new associate director of admissions to be based in Indianapolis.
IU-Bloomington has the highest on-time completion rate and the highest total student completion rate of all colleges in Indiana, according to the College Completion Rates for Indiana report released Feb. 18.
Robel said the Strategic Plan is meant to address broad goals for campus, not specific issues.
The Hutton Honors College might take on an expanded role if Provost Lauren Robel’s draft of the campus strategic plan is approved.
Student debt might get a little lighter if the initiatives outlined in IU’s Strategic Plan come to pass.
Khala Granville was just hired as associate director to focus on diversity-oriented recruitment and outreach at the Office of Enrollment Management. She will focus on recruiting students from the Indianapolis area.
The personal data of about 146,000 IU students and recent graduates was accessed by webcrawlers from Google, a science-specific search engine called Scirus and a Chinese search engine called Baidu.