While academics are important, students say service projects like annual Habitat build are crucial part of their IU experience
Post courtesy of IU newsroom intern Amanda Marino: Ever since she saw pictures of her friend participating in a Habitat for Humanity build, Indiana University junior Shradda Madhav has been interested in joining the program. She got her chance last week, joining the seventh annual build by the IU Kelley School of Business, Habitat for […]
Helping fifth-graders understand the relationship between saving rainforests and language
Like many of his Indiana University faculty colleagues, David Stringer has had a lot of final papers to read lately, by the 66 students in his Language Hotspots and Biodiversity class. However, unlike many of his peers, Stringer has had something else to read: letters from another group of people impacted by his course — […]
International Education Week celebrates the rich, worldwide diversity of Indiana University
Each November, Indiana University Bloomington participates in International Education Week, a worldwide celebration of people who seek to improve global understanding. For the past nine years, the IU World’s Fare, an event that allows international student groups to showcase their countries, has been the primary event for the week. However, this year the IU Office […]
IU alumna brings Malaysian education delegation back to IU Bloomington
Indiana University President Michael McRobbie on Thursday welcomed a delegation of education leaders from Malaysia, including its minister of higher education, to IU Bloomington. For many in the delegation, including Dató Seri Idris Jusoh, Malaysia’s top higher education official, it was their first visit to beautiful IU Bloomington. But for one visitor, Dr. Asma Ismail, […]
Books from Kelley School faculty hit the shelves in time for classes at top Myanmar university
Back in December, we told you about the more than 1,900 books that would soon be on their way to Myanmar (also known as Burma). Last month, 79 boxes and three tons of textbooks arrived on the library shelves of one of the top universities in that Southeast Asian nation. These more than 1,900 academic […]
IU School of Global and International Studies hosts its first Diplomat in Residence
Guest post courtesy of Lee Feinstein, dean of the IU School of Global and International Studies: Indiana University’s School of Global and International Studies hosted its first Distinguished Diplomat in Residence, former Australian Foreign Minister Gareth Evans, in Bloomington for two weeks in May. I got to know Gareth while serving in government and later serving together […]
Faculty and students establish community loan and consulting organization to address economic needs in Indiana
Editor’s note: This article was updated on June 9 to include news of funding from the 2015-16 Women’s Philanthropy Leadership Council. Over the last two decades, many people have stepped forward, identifying themselves as “social entrepreneurs,” and passionately sought to change the world through businesses which address a social problem. Charles Leadbeater, an advisor to […]
Advice for 2015 Kelley grads from alumnus who now leads a top division at General Mills
This past weekend, Indiana University Bloomington was abuzz with graduation activities, including the first outdoor commencement in many years. Alumni of several schools also were invited back to campus to speak to graduates at recognition ceremonies. Among them was Anton Vincent, a 1993 MBA graduate of the IU Kelley School of Business, who today is […]
Successful alumnus Scott Dorsey gives back to IU, speaking at Entrepreneurial Connection Day
A wise person always looks ahead and prepares, while a fool can only look back and regret, so says a proverb. At the heart of a top business school are entrepreneurship programs, which prepare students to look ahead and learn how they can venture out on their own, and also how to create forward-thinking, innovative […]
IU’s Books & Beyond project brings together students from Bloomington, New Jersey and Africa to fight illiteracy
An old adage says, ” Books are the doors that lead to imagination.” For a group of Indiana University students, books are also a bridge bringing together school children from two vastly different places, Rwanda and Newark, N.J. Twenty-one IU students involved with Books & Beyond, a creative writing project of the Global Village Living-Learning […]
