The money will be dispersed through the Office of the Vice President of Diversity, Equity and Multicultural Affairs, which will work in cooperation with the Office of Overseas Study.
Students want changes to be made to academic advising, according to the IU Student Association’s VOICE report, released this week.
Last week, Provost and Executive Vice President Lauren Robel said in her
State of the Campus address that the percentage of minority faculty has
grown to 31 percent.
However, minorities comprise 18.6 percent of the Bloomington faculty, according to the IU Fact Book.
The work of merging the School of Library and Information Science with the School of Informatics and Computing will come to fruition in July 2013.
Men and women in suits clapped as Provost Lauren Robel took the stage to deliver her first State of the Campus address Tuesday, during which she discussed the prioritization of diversity on campus and reinvigorating academic advising.
The Board of Trustees voted to raise room-and-board rates 3.48 percent at a meeting Friday, as well as to extend President Michael McRobbie’s contract until 2020.
The IU Board of Trustees discussed increasing residence hall rates, among other topics, during its Thursday meeting at IU-Purdue University Indianapolis’s Campus Center.
Nassim JafariNaimi presented a lecture about digital simulations of democracy Monday as part of the School of Informatics and Computing’s Colloquium Series.
This year’s 25th annual Paul V. McNutt Lecture was given by Timothy Mitchell, a professor in the Department of Middle East and Asian Languages and Cultures at Columbia University.
Thomas Reilly will chair the Finance and Audit Committee next Thursday during the IU Board of Trustees meeting.
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