Year in Review 2012–13 University of Indianapolis 1400 East Hanna Avenue

Strategic planning looks ahead to 2030 The entire UIndy family—including alumnus and trustee Murv Enders, right, and School of Business professor Terry Schindler—and members of the community spent months generating ideas to guide the University in its strategic planning effort. It’s all beginning to come together. Page 8.

www.uindy.edu 1 About UIndy The University of Indianapolis consistently ranks among the top 25 percent of institutions of its kind in the Midwest. Founded in 1902, the University is today one of Indiana’s largest producers of doctoral graduates, and its reputation continues to grow regionally, nationally, and internationally. Home to stellar academic programs and student engagement in learning, leadership, and service, the University is affiliated with the United Methodist Church. Why “1400 ” ? It all begins here at our home campus at 1400 East Hanna Avenue. ‘A new chapter in our history’

Jeannine R. Allen During the 2012–13 academic year, the University of Art Director Indianapolis engaged in a strategic planning process, dubbed Vision 2030, that involved more than 1,600 individuals

Mary Wade Atteberry through conversations, meetings, retreats, a survey relating to space needs, and even an “imagination wall” that garnered Vice President, 350 scribbled suggestions. To maintain transparency, we Communications & Marketing developed a website—www.uindy.edu/vision—to which we posted notes and photos of the activity. Scott Hall Thousands of ideas were voiced, and common themes Director, Media Relations emerged. We have since moved from our list of more than 5,500 ideas to the development of priorities and goals, Jen Huber identification of initiatives to help us achieve those priorities Assistant Director, and goals, metrics that will reveal whether we have been Publications successful, and a possible timeline for implementation. Our mission, history, and traditions remained central to R. Peter Noot the strategic planning process and are evident in the proposed initiatives. Any progress we hope to University Editor & make must be tied to those very qualities that have animated our University for 111 years, and that are Director, Publications underscored by our relationship to the United Methodist Church. We will embark on a new chapter in our history, and we will do so by embracing our past and

Jen Zentz building on our strengths. The planning process emphasized thinking ahead to the year 2030—when children born today will be of college age—but our strategic plan is focused on the next decade. We Writer & Project Manager have immediate needs to address in the next three years and larger goals to accomplish before the decade is out, yet we will always be poised to adjust or respond to opportunities that arise. Feedback I hope you’ll enjoy this compendium of some of the highlights of UIndy’s academic year. [email protected] —Robert L. Manuel, University of Indianapolis President 317-788-3339

2 UIndy 1400 4 It’s official 16 Boston blasts Dr. Robert L. Manuel was formally When bombers attacked the Boston inaugurated as the ninth president of Marathon finish line this spring, news the University of Indianapolis in March outlets all over the U.S. and beyond after taking the helm in July 2012. turned their attention to the video analysis lab at the University. 6 Southside stigma? Star columnist Erika Smith chats with 18 Forensic outreach President Manuel about the challenges A professor and a graduate student crew and opportunities ahead for UIndy as it take their skills to Texas to help identify embraces its role as community anchor. remains of undocumented immigrants.

8 Vision 2030 25 New programs Much of the academic year was spent The University has created a number generating and evaluating thousands of of graduate programs that mesh with ideas from every constituency, and then the needs of employers and prepare planning how and when to implement students for careers. those that rose to the top. 28 Nursing growth 12 Lugar Academy The University’s School of Nursing is All eyes were on Indiana’s Richard G. expanding partnerships and creating Lugar last fall. After his years of stellar new programs, including a doctoral service in the Senate, what would he do degree program, to prepare tomorrow’s for an encore? His first announcement: nurses for leadership roles. a return to UIndy. 34 Student standouts 13 Civic institute Students who helped make it a banner Lilly Endowment Inc. has provided a year include a swimmer who qualified $2-million endorsement of the work of for the London Paralympics and a UIndy’s Institute for Civic Leadership winner of an unusual video contest. & Mayoral Archives. 36 Biblio file 14 Hot-button issues Among the faculty books published this Professor Amanda Miller is drawing year are a novel, a collection of poems national attention with her research on and paintings, a textbook, and a tome issues of great importance to families. on the presidential election—of 1860.

www.uindy.edu 3 Transitions

Manuel inaugurated as ninth president The University of Indianapolis celebrated “We must broaden our thinking The big day a milestone on March 21, 2013, with to include the notion that our campus But the week was focused on the events the inauguration of Robert L. Manuel, is an anchor for the community, not an of Thursday, March 21. In keeping with its ninth president in its 111 years. island in the middle of it,” Manuel said. the UIndy motto, the day began with a The afternoon investiture ceremony “The moment is at hand to define number of service projects on behalf of took place in Nicoson Hall before an our value to the world. . . . The only the Pink Ribbon Connection, Disabled audience of students, alumni, faculty, failure we have to worry about at this American Veterans Transportation staff, and community members; moment is one of the imagination.” Services, the Julian Center, and a local Manuel’s predecessors, Gene E. Sease, For the full text of the president’s speech, elementary school. G. Benjamin Lantz Jr., Jerry Israel, and visit www.uindy.edu/president. A worship service took place at the Beverley Pitts; and current and emeritus University Heights United Methodist trustees, including longtime Senator Church, featuring a sermon by Bishop Richard G. Lugar and four-term A festive week Michael Coyner of the Indiana Confer- Indianapolis Mayor William Hudnut. The milestone was celebrated with a full ence of the United Methodist Church. In his inaugural address, Manuel week of events. Highlights included a UIndy is United Methodist-affiliated noted that higher education has UIndy Day at the Children’s Museum and has enjoyed a long relationship with contiually been beset by new demands of Indianapolis followed by another the University Heights church family. and waves of change, but that UIndy family-friendly event the next day: a The centerpiece of the day was the has always taken such pressures as “Carnival of Books” for the University investiture ceremony, which included opportunities to adapt and grow. community and neighborhood families. delegates representing other colleges He noted that although the The day after the inauguration and universities as well as members University must be willing to rethink its ceremony, alumni, students, faculty, of the faculty, alumni and student structures and methods, as it has in the and staff enjoyed UIndy Night with representatives, and invited civic leaders. Vision 2030 strategic planning process the Indiana Pacers at Bankers Life Fieldhouse, which included a private (pages 8–11), the institution will Photo: Robert Wingerter, chair of the continue to be guided by its traditions postgame reception on the Pacers’ University’s Board of Trustees, and Board and founding values. practice court. member (and chair of the presidential And he renewed UIndy’s commit- And Manuel, whose birthday search committee) Deborah Daniels ment to community involvement and was March 24, was presented with a bestow the presidential medallion on its motto, “Education for Service.” birthday cake, courtesy of the Pacers. Manuel at his investiture.

4 UIndy 1400 About the president

Robert L. Manuel came to the University of Indianapolis in July 2012 from George- town University in Maryland, where he was associate provost and dean of the School of Continuing Studies. As a higher education administrator, first at New York University and then at Georgetown, he was recognized for the development and implementation of innovative programming—including graduate, undergraduate, online, and customized educational programs. In six years at Georgetown, Manuel revamped its only part-time bachelor’s degree program, launched nine new master’s degree programs, and increased enrollments in all programs by more than 200 percent. His emphasis on connecting the academic environment with corporate, nonprofit, and governmental organizations was the driving force behind the school’s success. As dean of Continuing Studies, Manuel was responsible for the overall management of the school, including all academic programs, the creation and maintenance of faculty and student cultures, administrative and financial oversight, new program creation, and industry/government engage- ment. One of eight degree-granting entities at Georgetown, the school enrolls more than 6,000 students across three locations—two in Washington, D.C., and another in Clarendon, Virginia. As Georgetown’s associate provost, Manuel was responsible for working with the leadership of the Center for Social Justice, Research and Teaching, the Diversity Action Council, the Veteran’s Affairs initiative, and the Senior Vice President for Research/Chief Technical Officer. Manuel earned a bachelor’s degree in history and political science from Allegheny College, a master’s in higher education administration from Syracuse University, and a doctorate in higher education administration from New York University.

www.uindy.edu 5 Erika D. Smith

Commentary With new president, University of Indianapolis to take active role in shaping image, future of Southeastside

Erika Smith is a columnist for the Indianapolis When I first moved to Indianapolis, one of the earliest Star. This article appeared on March 16, bits of advice I received was this: Don’t go to the Southside. 2013. Reprinted with permission. Where exactly on the Southside, I have no idea. Why I shouldn’t go, I don’t know that either—other than Photos: Vision 2030 strategic planning a vague rumor about racism. sessions included all University constituents I don’t put much stock in rumors. But even now, even as well as members of the community. though I have plenty of friends who live south of Washington Street, the Southside to me still has a nebulous quality about it. For those who don’t live in Beech Grove or Greenwood or close to Garfield Park, it’s a side of our city with an identity defined more by rumors and misperceptions than reality. So I had to laugh when moments after meeting Robert Manuel, the new president of the University of Indianapolis, he asked me: “How do you define the Southside?”

6 UIndy 1400 Apparently satisfied with my non-answer response, Which brings me to the economic development piece he replied: “That’s good context because I have a hard time of this Southside puzzle. defining where we are. The Southside and the Northside, they Unlike the Northside of Indianapolis, the neighborhoods seem so far apart in people’s heads, but they’re really 10 to 15 south and east of Fountain Square don’t have a community minutes away if you’re driving. And I don’t know where we are clearinghouse to work with city officials to get big projects off because we’re kind of close to the urban core, but we’re not the ground. Concord Community Development Corp. went quite in it. We’re not really as ‘Southside’ as people think belly up last year, and in its wake, left a vacuum of leadership. in their minds.” Manuel wants UIndy to fill that vacuum, acting with and Manuel, who left Georgetown University last summer as a steward for residents. to take over UIndy, has stepped into an area of the city with He is in talks with commercial and residential developers an identity crisis. Or maybe just a public relations problem. in hopes of landing a few projects that will create more density Either way, he sees it as an opportunity to raise the profile of through population growth. Decades ago, 50 or 60 faculty both the university and the surrounding community. That, members lived just blocks away in University Heights. Today, in turn, will surely reshape public perceptions of at least the only five or six live there. Southeast corner of the city. In short, Manuel wants to create a thriving, sustainable “We need to be institutionally competitive,” he said, university community, one that will complement efforts to “and I don’t mean just the university. I mean this area.” revitalize the Madison Avenue retail corridor. What will that look like? “It’s not about the university putting up five-story Well, for one thing, UIndy will become more of buildings. It’s not razing houses and making them different,” an anchor than an island. he said. “It’s giving people a reason to come back.”

The university has operated in the same spot on the If Manuel seems to have bold ideas for a newcomer, don’t Southeastside for more than 100 years. But residents in be surprised. While at Georgetown, he worked with former— surrounding neighborhoods, such as University Heights and and very transformative—Indianapolis Mayor Bill Hudnut on Carson Heights, tend to see it as a place where students go, creating an urban planning program at the university’s School not a place where they have a reason to go. UIndy isn’t seen of Continuing Studies. as a resource for things other than an education. All he knew of Indianapolis before stepping off the plane Changing that will mean new initiatives, such as leverag- for an interview here were the stories Hudnut told him of the ing UIndy’s nursing school to attract a new health facility to city’s amazing growth. Now that he’s here with his wife and the Southeastside. Or tapping students majoring in education children, he says he’s committed to Indianapolis for the to convene teachers from local schools to tackle big problems. long haul. Or providing fitness activities and other programming at a “There’s an opportunity here but it’s not going to be ‘The nearby city park. UIndy students would gain something from Southside,’ which is this massive, massive plot of land. Because each of these initiatives and so would the community. Indianapolis in the north is not ‘The Northside.’ If you go to “This has to be an anchor of resources for everything that’s Carmel, you go to Carmel. If you go to Broad Ripple, you go around here, because there’s no other entity or institution to Broad Ripple. But everybody says ‘The Southside,’ and that’s quite as large, and consumes as many goods and services, that’s two million square feet of land. So we need to focus and employs as many people,” Manuel said. on the space for us.”

www.uindy.edu 7 Planning Comprehensive strategic planning effort sets the stage Academic opportunities, neighborhood development, student preparation

Photos: Vision 2030 seeks to capitalize on the many ways UIndy After a year of conversations involving every segment of engages its community. The vast improvements to Hanna Avenue UIndy, the Board of Trustees has adopted an ambitious (far left) are just one example. Students begin engaging city and blueprint for a strategic plan designed to: state long before graduating, whether by applying sophisticated software solutions to Super Bowl challenges, providing media establish UIndy as a major anchor institution on the coverage during elections, learning from civic and corporate south side; leaders, helping Downtown businesses gauge accessibility for build on its liberal arts core and strengths in health care, disabled patrons, offering community health solutions while education, business, political science, and gerontology; learning, or conducting cancer research, among other ways. invigorate the student experience with new opportunities and connections; The thousands of suggestions from Vision 2030 support faculty and programmatic innovation; coalesced into 32 proposed initiatives that expand financial aid; improve retention; and can help the University achieve excellence in integrate teaching and applied learning in distinctive enrollment and retention, brand identity and new ways. image, career outcomes for students, University “UIndy has a storied history of academic excellence advancement, and finance and affordability, and service to Indianapolis,” noted President Manuel, “and a special relationship with the surrounding University Heights while strengthening the surrounding community neighborhood that dates back to our founding in 1902.

8 UIndy 1400 “We want to work with our community to revive the Restructuring to better possibilities in the neighborhood we share and create new opportunities for students and faculty. prepare students “A mass transit hub alone has the potential to transform One result of the strategic planning process is a blending of the the area. UIndy can bring its assets to bear to make University Office of Alumni Relations with the offices of Career Services Heights a destination point and to encourage development that and Community Programs (which connects students with will benefit our educational programs as well as the community.” volunteer and service-learning opportunities in the community). Every group that engaged in Vision 2030 conversations Healthplex in the offing? had emphasized the importance of connecting students and A medical clinic/health complex at the edge of campus, for alumni in more meaningful ways. This merger of operations instance, with office and laboratory space for many of UIndy’s within the Advancement division will set the stage for allied health programs, could provide clinical experiences for comprehensive mentoring and career development. nursing students right in the neighborhood, as well as research Student advising also is being restructured to create a and clinical opportunities for physical therapy, occupational centralized system that will go well beyond course scheduling therapy, and psychology majors. to focus on creating a professional development plan for every Such a facility, identified as a priority during the strategic student—incorporating coursework with applied experiences, planning process, could free up space that’s now dedicated to travel, service, and co-curricular activities. those high-demand programs in existing campus buildings, The new advising system is a direct response to student providing more room for basic science labs and enabling input during strategic planning conversations as well as a program expansion. recommendation from the Intellectual and Campus Life Task Force.

Sorting the torrent of ideas Enriching the curriculum The strategic planning process, initiated in the fall of 2012 Another focus of the next three years will be development shortly after Manuel’s arrival as UIndy’s ninth president, of cross-disciplinary coursework as well as active-learning involved 1,600 individuals in conversations and task force experiences that involve team teaching, course linking, activity that represented all segments of the University—stu- and other approaches that enrich rather than extend the dents, faculty, staff, alumni, parents, and trustees—and the curriculum, keeping students on track to graduate in four neighborhood, and generated more than 5,500 ideas. Yet it is years while enhancing their employability. just the beginning of a more extensive conversation about “This blueprint for our new strategic plan is ambitious realizing a collective vision for UIndy and University Heights. and broad-reaching, yet laser-focused on the quality of the The thousands of suggestions from Vision 2030 coalesced student experience, faculty and staff excellence, and commu- into 32 proposed initiatives that can help the University achieve nity involvement,” said Manuel. excellence in enrollment and retention, brand identity and “The level of interest and engagement in the strategic image, career outcomes for students, University advancement, planning process during this past year has been impressive. and finance and affordability, while strengthening the It provides a great base on which to build as we begin the surrounding community. exciting work of bringing our vision to life.” The initiatives fall within one or more of three University focal points for the next decade that emerged from the strategic planning process: the student experience, faculty/staff excellence, and community engagement. Development of the surrounding neighborhood will be integral to all three.

www.uindy.edu 9 Planning Pillar of the community Strategic planning initiative addresses UIndy in the context of its role in both the city and state

Photos: Vision 2030 strategic planning sessions included all University constituents UIndy Spending on Vendors as well as members of the community. Non-Indiana spending: $9M $9 million

Indiana spending outside $4M Marion County: $4 million

Marion County spending: $23M $23 million Total spent nationally: $36 million Total

10 UIndy 1400 Claiming our anchor status UIndy devotes more than $30 million to financial aid to make college more affordable to students—more than Now in its 111th year, the University of Indianapolis is one 40 percent representing the first generation in their families of the city’s oldest institutions. And it has grown dramatically to attend college. Through its degree programs UIndy is over the years to become an important community anchor preparing young adults for high-skill careers, and, by on the southeast side. A few examples: developing new academic programs, it is helping older Today, the University employs nearly 1,000 people, workers retool to meet Indiana employers’ emerging needs. making it one of the densest employment clusters on UIndy’s Christel DeHaan Fine Arts Center and Division II the south side of Marion County. athletics programs draw thousands of individuals to With average salary and benefits per employee of campus each year. $53,670, UIndy is providing higher-wage jobs that The University of Indianapolis is fifth in the number of support the region’s and the state’s goal of increasing doctoral graduates produced in Indiana and is the largest median income. producer of physical therapists, occupational therapists, The University of Indianapolis spends $36.5 million on and clinical psychologists in the state. goods and services. Of this, $23.1 million, 63 percent “We must begin to see ourselves as an anchor institution,” of dollars spent, stays in Marion County. President Manuel says, “and leverage our strengths in ways that With an additional $4 million spent statewide, more will enable the University to reach a new level of excellence, than 74 percent of UIndy spending stays in Indiana. and our community to grow into a vibrant destination for cultural, sports, and civic activity.”

Total Students: 5,432 Student-to-Faculty Ratio : : 78% undergraduate / 22% graduate 14:1 student-to-faculty ratio

Freshmen Living On Campus Students Receiving Financial Aid

8 of 10 of UIndy freshmen live on campus 9 of 10 students recieve financial aid

www.uindy.edu 11 Transitions Academy brings Senator Lugar back as Distinguished Professor

The eyes of the world were on U.S. the popular Lugar Symposium for county government system credited Senator Richard G. Lugar last fall as he Tomorrow’s Leaders, an annual daylong with launching an era of economic and prepared to leave office and finally reveal program founded in 1977 that allows cultural growth in central Indiana. his plans for the future. Indiana’s top high school juniors to At a December press conference explore national and international issues. UIndy & the Senator that made international news, Lugar Lugar returns to the UIndy faculty The University of Indianapolis and and UIndy President Robert Manuel after a brief stint in the 1970s. He Senator Richard G. Lugar have enjoyed announced the formation of the will visit campus regularly to deliver a long and rewarding relationship since Richard G. Lugar Academy. lectures and interact with students and 1970, when he accepted an invitation to The Nobel Peace Prize nominee faculty. His first visit came in February, join the UIndy Board of Trustees while is now a Distinguished Professor in when he spoke with students in an serving as mayor of Indianapolis. UIndy’s History, Political Science & International Relations course on global In 1976, at the conclusion of his International Relations department politics and nuclear proliferation. tenure as mayor, Lugar taught political and has been instrumental in helping Lugar also will participate in science at UIndy while running for the the University establish a high-level events in Washington for internship Senate. Students had a front-row seat to Washington, D.C., internship and participants and the public. history as they followed the campaign, study program for students from The Academy represents the watched election returns with their Indiana and across the nation. evolution of UIndy’s Lugar Center professor, then welcomed the victorious In January, the University opened for Tomorrow’s Leaders, established candidate back in class the next day. a branch office in Washington with a in 2007 to coordinate the senator’s For 36 years, the Senator has full-time staff member to support the annual symposium. Lugar expressed relished the opportunity to continue new internship program and related enthusiasm about continuing his career to connect with young people via conferences, symposia, policy studies, in public service and his commitment the annual Lugar Symposium for and other Academy activities. to inspiring future leaders. Tomorrow’s Leaders at UIndy, when he Beginning this fall, students Lugar left the Senate as its most delivers the keynote address and meets enrolling in the Washington Semester senior Republican and Indiana’s with outstanding high school juniors will divide their time between classes longest-serving member of Congress. from around the state. and seminars on national and global First elected to the Senate in 1976, Lugar received an honorary issues and professional experience Lugar is best known for his work on degree from the University in 1970 in settings such as congressional agriculture, trade, energy security, and and spoke at commencement in 1971. offices, federal agencies, think tanks, especially foreign relations, including While rising to leadership positions in embassies, international organizations, his co-sponsorship of the 1991 Nunn- the Senate and becoming a statesman or government relations firms. Lugar Act to eliminate stockpiles of international renown, the Senator They also will interact with Lugar of nuclear, chemical, and biological remained on the UIndy Board of and enjoy tours and cultural outings weapons. A Rhodes Scholar and Navy Trustees for 32 years, earning the organized by Academy staff. veteran, he served two terms as mayor designation of Distinguished Trustee The Academy will continue of Indianapolis, crafting a unified city- upon retiring from the board in 2002.

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12 UIndy 1400 UIndy civic institute receives $2M boost

Lilly Endowment provides startup funds for city archive project A $2-million grant from Lilly Endow- online as soon as reasonably possible in ment Inc. is helping the University of order to generate more interest among Indianapolis to begin cataloging four scholars and the general public, as well Academy brings Senator Lugar decades of city history to form the as people who have materials and foundation of the Institute for Civic memories to contribute to the archives. Leadership & Mayoral Archives. “This is going to be far more back as Distinguished Professor Former mayors (and University accessible and interactive than anyone trustees) Richard G. Lugar, William can imagine at this point,” Frantz says. Hudnut, Stephen Goldsmith, and Bart The archives will then be the Peterson have entrusted UIndy with a centerpiece of the institute, envisioned vast collection of documents, images, as a hub for research, teaching, and recordings, and other materials from special events, with resources for their mayoral administrations, an era students, visiting scholars, planners, of innovative leadership that has made and community leaders to explore Indianapolis a national model of the issues facing today’s cities. urban revitalization. The period includes such historic Institute builds connections developments as the formation of The institute also will enable the Unigov, the birth of White River University to expand its academic State Park and Circle Centre Mall, programs, develop symposia, build the hosting of the 1987 Pan American connections with local schools, and Games, the construction of major host public conversations. sports venues, and the creation of Such conversations will take BioCrossroads. various forms, such as the April 2 The grant is the largest single Building Heartland Cities event that contribution to date in the University’s brought former Indianapolis mayor $7.5-million capital campaign to equip, William Hudnut III and current mayors staff, and launch the institute. Karl Dean of Nashville, Tenn., and “Now we can dig in and begin Michael Coleman of Columbus, Ohio, unearthing the buried treasures of to campus to discuss revitalizing urban this collection,” says UIndy Associate environments for the 21st century. Professor Edward Frantz, the Building Heartland Cities was historian serving as interim director presented by Indiana Humanities and of the institute. UIndy’s ICLMA, in partnership with “Our city has an amazing story to the National League of Cities. share. That story needs to be told in its UIndy Trustee Carolyn Coleman, full historical complexity,” Frantz says. director of federal relations for the National League of Cities and former Archivist digs in deputy mayor of Indianapolis, moder- It’s a big job, but someone has to do it, ated the discussion of the importance and that person is Mark Vopelak. of education, transportation, tourism, One of just 14 certified archivists public and private investment, and in Indiana, Vopelak joined the UIndy other factors in a city’s vitality. staff in January as head archivist and In partnership with Indiana curator of the Institute for Civic Humanities, the Institute will host its Leadership & Mayoral Archives. first annual Fairbanks Symposium on The University must catalog and Civic Leadership October 8 and 9. The digitize the archives, including several symposium is made possible by a grant hundred boxes of documents, photos, to the institute from the Richard M. recordings, and physical artifacts. Fairbanks Foundation. Former Indianapolis Vopelak and Frantz want to make Contact: Edward Frantz, Interim Director, mayor William Hudnut III portions of the collection available at 317-788-4906, [email protected]

www.uindy.edu 13 Research

Sociologist’s research examines hot-button family issues

14 UIndy 1400 Americans have never been in full prepared for parenthood because they Pointing toward agreement on social attitudes and felt far more stable in their relation- behaviors, but now some segments of ships. They were more likely to be a paradox our society are drifting even further engaged and have a wedding date set, Both studies point toward a broader and apart, says Assistant Professor Amanda for example.” seemingly paradoxical trend noticed by Miller of UIndy’s Department of In another study, published in the sociologists, Miller says. Working-class Social Sciences. December issue of Qualitative Sociology, and middle-class Americans used to be “I think we’re seeing an interesting Miller and co-author Sharon Sassler of very similar in their family-building family transformation right now in the Cornell University interviewed work- behaviors, but in recent decades they United States,” she says. ing-class cohabiting couples about the have diverged. Examples are evident in two studies division of household responsibilities in The college-educated members Miller published this year that drew their relationships. They found that of the middle class often have liberal attention well beyond the academic couples who moved in together without ideas about what defines a family, but world. The coverage included local a wedding often held surprisingly the choices they make in their own news, Britain’s Telegraph and Daily Mail, traditional views on gender roles relationships are fairly traditional; they Canada’s Flare magazine; websites such and household chores. are more likely to marry and less likely as Buzzfeed, Huffington Post, and Even men who were being sup- to live together or get pregnant outside Jezebel, and the “Bloomberg News ported financially by their partners of marriage. Morning Report,” seen on televisions generally lived under the assumption In contrast, Miller says, working- across the nation. that the man is the head of the house- class young adults now express attitudes One study, which appeared in hold and that the woman is responsible about families that are fairly conserva- September’s Sociological Forum, asked for domestic work. tive, but perhaps as a result of declining unmarried couples how they would economic opportunity, they find them- respond to an unexpected pregnancy. Working & shirking selves more often living in non-nuclear Many of the men said their positions “A number of these working-class men or unmarried families. would be based not on religious or wanted the respect of being the “It’s important to recognize that political beliefs but on personal circum- breadwinner, but were not necessarily changes in the public arena, such as stances that might shift over time. taking on that role,” Miller says. education or the economy, can have “While they were content to let clear impacts in our homes,” she says. Dividing along their girlfriends pay at least half of the “Moral judgments aside, marriage class lines rent, they admitted that they had no does convey certain advantages in our plans to take on half of the housework, society, and if it is increasingly limited Interesting divisions emerged when the even if their partners were very unhappy to people who can afford higher men were grouped either as working about doing more than their fair share.” education, then those who cannot will class, with only a high school education, The responses suggest that working- be increasingly disadvantaged.” or as middle class, with college degrees. class men—who were far more likely The middle-class men were more likely than women to lose their jobs in the to feel prepared for fatherhood, Miller latest recession—may be clinging tightly found, in part because they felt more to their privileges at home as they lose secure in their educations and careers. ground in the workplace. Not surpris- In contrast, working-class men ingly, Miller and her colleagues have more often preferred that their partners found in other research that many opt for abortion because they felt working-class cohabiting women view financially or emotionally unprepared marriage as a path not to a stronger for parenthood. relationship, but to an even greater “This research can help explain workload both in and out of the home. some of the differences we see in terms Contact: Amanda Miller, Assistant “They’re afraid that, if they get Professor of Social Sciences, at of family outcomes between the working married, they’re going to have even 317-788-3547, [email protected] class and the middle class,” Miller said. more responsibilities than they do now,” “A number of the working-class Miller says, “which may help explain the men were living with women that they retreat from marriage among those with were certain were not ‘the one.’ On the less than a college education.” whole, the middle-class men felt more

www.uindy.edu 15 Community Boston blasts create interest in UIndy lab

The tragic, deadly bombing at LEVA began offering its training the Boston Marathon finish line sessions at UIndy in 2004, and in alerted the world to the potential of 2007 established the permanent lab, forensic image analysis, with investi- where 20 cutting-edge digital gators calling for spectators to share workstations can be used to examine their videos and photos to help video footage that could prove to be identify suspects. crucial criminal evidence. The comprehensive “crowd- LEVA offers 10 to 12 courses at sourcing” approach to detective work the lab in a typical year, said UIndy had taken place just once before, in Assistant Professor Tom Christen- the investigation of the rioting and berry, a former FBI agent who was looting in Vancouver, British instrumental in bringing the lab to Columbia, in June 2011. the University. In that case, technicians from In fact, some of the federal agents across North America spent two who were working the Boston case weeks at UIndy’s Digital Multimedia received their training at the UIndy Evidence Processing Lab, processing lab, said LEVA instructor Grant and cross-referencing thousands of Fredericks, one of the world’s leading hours of video to build evidence that authorities on forensic video analysis. led to hundreds of charges being filed. Fredericks happened to be on campus Although the UIndy lab was not teaching a course the week of the called into service in the Boston case, bombing and spent significant time its presence sparked curiosity from fielding interview requests. journalists around the world, as well Other news outlets mentioning as visits by TV crews from ABC and the lab in their coverage included: CBS, among other outlets. NBC.com The lab is operated by the Law Boston Globe Enforcement & Emergency Services The Atlantic Video Association, or LEVA, an Bloomberg News international organization that Marketplace provides training and certification in (American Public Media) video analysis for police and fire Financial Times (UK) agencies and other public safety Postmedia News (Canada) professionals from across the globe. WTHR WRTV Photo: Grant Fredericks, an internationally WXIN known expert on forensic video, often leads the classes in the LEVA lab. Indiana Public Radio

16 UIndy 1400 Prison nursery benefits inmates and their children, UIndy study finds

Inmates who live with their newborn infants in a special both groups to assess their attachment to their children and nursery wing at the Indiana Women’s Prison are more likely to their opinions of themselves as parents. retain custody of their children after release and less likely to “She has this great ability to get people to talk,” Whiteacre be arrested again, according to a study by UIndy’s Community said of Fritz, who will use the data in the thesis for her master’s Research Center. degree in applied sociology. Center Director Kevin Whiteacre follows the corrections The study, commissioned by the Indiana Women’s Prison field and has seen many promising innovations that, once and the Indiana Department of Correction, found mild to subjected to greater scrutiny, ultimately show no impact. strong support for all four hypotheses posed at the outset. This case, however, was different. The findings include: “The differences were not large, but they were there,” Nursery program participants had a lower rate of new said Whiteacre, an assistant professor of criminal justice arrests within one year of release than the control and sociology at UIndy. “We expect so much from corrections. group—26 percent vs. 31 percent. It’s always exciting when something seems to be working.” Participants had a significantly lower rate of new With space for 10 women and their babies, the Indiana admissions to the Department of Correction within one Women’s Prison’s Wee Ones Nursery is among approximately year of release—10 percent vs. 18 percent. 10 such facilities in the nation for inmates who are pregnant Participants were more likely to have legal custody of the on arrival. Those who meet eligibility requirements can live child delivered in prison (86 percent vs. 58 percent) and there and receive childcare assistance and parenting education more likely to have caregiver responsibilities for the child for as long as 18 months while serving their sentences, though (92 percent vs. 75 percent). the typical stay is much shorter. Participants reported a significantly greater sense of The prison on the city’s west side maintains the nursery parenting efficacy than the control group. using grants and donated supplies. (Much support comes from the nonprofit group Angel’s Wings Inc., founded and led by Prison Superintendent Steve McCauley said the findings UIndy staff member Wendi Middleton.) support the nursery’s mission of helping inmates build healthy relationships with their children during their critical early The nature of nurture months and create a structure for the children’s development. “This study provides us an empirical indication that the Whiteacre and his graduate assistants analyzed data on 90 WON program is beginning to fulfill our goal of success for women who participated in the Wee Ones Nursery program the mothers and the babies,” he said. and a comparison group of 98 women who gave birth at the prison before the nursery was established in 2008. CRC Contact: Kevin Whiteacre, Director, at 317-788-4929, research assistant Stephanie Fritz interviewed women from [email protected]

www.uindy.edu 17 Research

UIndy forensic crew lends hand in Texas migrant crisis

For more photos from this project, go to www.1400.uindy.edu.

18 UIndy 1400 The work was often grim, dirty, and typically lack the manpower, expertise, “I was shocked by how much we hot, but UIndy forensic anthropologist and funding to handle the growing were embraced by the local community,” Krista Latham (below, center) and four number of cases. Maiers said. “They were all so very graduate students put their skills to the As the ranchers near Falfurrias, grateful that we were there to help.” test in May on a weeklong humanitar- Texas, continue finding remains on their The following week, the crew made ian mission in Texas, helping to bring property, the town’s small cemetery is presentations at a professional confer- closure to grieving families. filling with fresh graves of unidentified ence in Las Vegas. Undocumented migrants seeking victims. The location suggests that the Latham plans to return in the opportunity in the United States are migrants, left to their own devices by future, with student teams, to Brooks turning up dead in increasing numbers the smugglers paid to deliver them County and similarly affected commu- in southern border areas. One hotspot safely, are actually trying to reach a nities to conduct further exhumations is rural Brooks County, Texas, about 60 nearby U.S. Border Patrol checkpoint and analyze remains. miles from the Mexican border, where a and be sent back home rather than die “I see this as a long-term mission,” reported 129 bodies or sets of skeletal in the countryside. she says. “It’s a crisis at this point, and I remains—many still unidentified—were “It’s pure desperation,” Latham says. think it’s going to get worse.” found in 2012 alone. “They’re succumbing to the elements.”

“That’s where people are running She was joined on the trip by four Busy year out of water, running out of food,” said students pursuing Master of Science Latham, an assistant professor teaching degrees in Human Biology: Jessica Latham, who leads an organization in in UIndy’s Departments of Biology and Campbell, LaFarge, Wis.; Erica Chris- which UIndy students learn about the Anthropology. “A lot of them are tensen, Indianapolis; Justin Maiers, forensic sciences and make presentations women and children who are just Lapeer, Mich.; and Ryan Strand, Irving, at schools and museums, also made coming here for a better life.” Texas. In seven days—amid snakes, news with work on high-profile cases: Latham, who directs UIndy’s scorpions, desperate relatives of the She led analysis of skeletal remains Molecular Anthropology Laboratory missing, and ever-present news cameras found in April in a remote area of and also works on human-remains cases —they exhumed 63 graves, some con- Brown County, soon identified as a in UIndy’s Archeology & Forensics taining remnants of multiple individu- 26-year-old reported missing in 2010. Laboratory, has more than 10 years of als. The remains are being cleaned and She provided analysis and testimony experience in locating burial sites, stored in Texas while awaiting skeletal last fall in a murder trial in what may exhuming graves, and analyzing skeletal analysis and DNA sampling, some of be the oldest cold case to be solved remains to determine sex, age, height, which will take place at UIndy. in U.S. history, in which a man was and other factors that can assist in Their labors in the Texas heat and convicted in the abduction and death identification. She and her uniquely humidity, sometimes wearing head-to- of a seven-year-old in 1957. qualified students were called to toe protective gear, were challenging She still hopes to tackle a great southern Texas by Baylor associate physically and emotionally, Latham mystery that eluded her this year: professor Lori Baker, who has been said. But the opportunity for the whether assassin John Wilkes Booth involved in the issue for a decade. students to experience such an effort died on being captured in 1865 or firsthand and make a valuable contribu- escaped to start a new life, as some Reuniting families tion to society was not to be missed. believe. She’s agreed to analyze DNA “This is a dream project,” Strand Baker is director of Reuniting Families, from bones of the recovered body, said. “We can directly apply our skills to a nonprofit program that coordinates but the Army so far has declined to help people in need.” with authorities on both sides of the release samples from a display in a During the mission, the UIndy border to identify and repatriate the Washington, D.C., medical museum. team members were treated to dinner at remains. The all-volunteer effort is a private ranch and at the home of the Contact: Krista Latham, Assistant Professor, necessitated by the fact that the Biology & Anthropology, at 317-788-2060, local constable, who presented them communities where bodies are found [email protected] with certificates of appreciation.

www.uindy.edu 19 Recognition

Christopher Berger, an exercise physiologist, in the terminal of Akron-Canton Airport in Ohio. Photo by David Maxwell for the New York Times

Kinesiology prof featured in New York Times

In April, the New York Times Business Travel section carried a story that featured Dr. Christopher Berger of the Department of Kinesiology discussing a favorite topic: how to stay healthy while traveling by air. An exercise physiologist and assistant professor at UIndy, Berger chairs the American College of Sports Medicine’s Task Force on Healthy Air Travel. Among other initiatives, the task force is a clearinghouse for tips and information on fitness opportunities in and around the nation’s major airports. One option is simply to walk around, whenever there is time to kill. “You’re stuck in a terminal for three hours, boo hoo, but you have a climate-controlled place where you can walk literally for miles at some airports if you want,” Dr. Berger told the Times. Read the full story at http://tinyurl.com/n478rfc.

State honors CAC director for healthcare work

Ellen Miller, executive director of the University’s Center for Aging & Community, has received the state health commissioner’s Award for Excellence in Public Health. The award recognizes outstanding contributions in promoting, protecting, and providing for people’s health. Commissioner Gregory Larkin thanked Miller for helping ISDH in its “daily work to move forward the heavy ball of public health.” Under Miller, CAC has led two successful quality initiatives for ISDH—the Indiana Pressure Ulcer Initiative and the Indiana Healthcare Associated Infections Initiative—seeking to improve delivery of care, cost-effectiveness, and quality of life for patients. In addition to its research and consulting services, the CAC offers an online Master of Science in Gerontology degree as well as graduate and undergraduate certificates in related fields. ATEP director tapped for state Hall of Fame

Connie Pumpelly, recently retired program director and department chair of UIndy’s Athletic Training Education Program, has been inducted into the Indiana Athletic Trainers Association Hall of Fame. Pumpelly joined UIndy in 1995. She has been instrumental in developing curriculum and served as head athletic trainer for women’s basketball and volleyball from 1995 to 2005. She was honored last fall and retired this spring. Pumpelly earned a bachelor’s degree in physical education and health from Cedarville College as well as a master’s degree in physical education, specializing in sports medicine, from Indiana University. Pumpelly wasn’t UIndy’s first such honoree, however: head athletic trainer Ned Shannon was inducted last year.

20 UIndy 1400 Dean picked for national Nursing fellowship

Anne Thomas, dean of the University’s School of Nursing, has been selected for induction to the Fellows of the American Academy of Nurse Practitioners, recognizing outstanding contributions to national and global health. The fellows program honors nurse practitioner leaders who have distinguished themselves through clinical practice, research, education, or policy-making. Fellows conduct an annual think tank to strategize on the future of nurse practitioners and health care. The academy is the largest full-service national professional organization for nurse practitioners, representing the interests of 150,000 nurse practitioners nationwide. Thomas is being recognized for her work in establishing new health clinics and leading the development of national and interna- tional educational curriculum. She is helping to develop national standards for nurse practitioner education, among other projects. Thomas began teaching in UIndy’s nursing programs in 1996 and joined the University full time in 2008 as director of nursing graduate programs. She was named dean of the nursing school in 2010 after serving as interim dean. Several new degree programs have been launched during her tenure, often in partnership with local hospitals and healthcare systems. Thomas has served as a research director at the National Cancer Institute and the National Institute of Nursing Research and more recently as coordinator of the Adult Nurse Practitioner Program at the University of Michigan School of Nursing. Thomas earned her doctoral degree from Texas Woman’s University College of Nursing and bachelor’s and master’s degrees from the School of Nursing at the University of Texas at Arlington. VP earns Athletic Director of the Year honors

The National Association of Collegiate Directors of Athletics honored Sue Willey, UIndy vice president for Intercollegiate Athletics, as an Under Armour Athletic Director of the Year. Willey recently completed her 10th year as director of athletics and her 37th overall at UIndy after being promoted to vice president in September 2012. In her time at the helm, Willey has established UIndy as one of the top overall athletics programs in both NCAA Division II and the state of Indiana. In five of the last six seasons, UIndy has been the highest-ranked athletics program in Indiana across all divisions and the NAIA. (See pp. 40–41.) The Greyhounds made more school history under Willey’s guidance this season by placing seventh in the Learfield Sports Directors’ Cup after a fifth-place finish in 2011–12 to give UIndy back-to-back top-10 finishes for the first time in school history. The University of Indianapolis has also claimed the Great Lakes Valley Conference All-Sports Trophy each of the last two seasons, including a conference record seven conference championships in 2011–12 and six more this season. Greyhound student-athletes have been successful in the classroom as well, with four student-athletes named GLVC Scholar-Athletes of the Year in their sports, giving UIndy the most honorees in the GLVC in 2011–12. The Greyhounds have also had 18 Capital One Academic All-Americans over the last two seasons, including a school-record 10 last season. Athletics facilities have seen major renovations under Willey’s watch as well. Willey has served on a variety of national committees and now serves on the NCAA Division II Membership Committee. Prof honored as Nagasaki Peace Correspondent

Associate Professor of English Kyoko Amano was honored May 19 while leading a UIndy delegation on a Spring Term tour of Japan. In a presentation, the mayor of Nagasaki marked Amano’s induction as a Nagasaki Peace Correspon- dent, a select affiliation whose 15 current members include artist-activist-Beatle widow Yoko Ono. The designation recognizes people from various nations and disciplines who are involved in raising awareness about peace initiatives and the continuing nuclear threat. The Spring Term trip, with faculty colleague Greta Pennell and a dozen students, was Amano’s third travel course focusing on global peace efforts and the aftermath of the World War II atomic bombing of Japan. Funded by a grant from the Japan Foundation’s Japan-America Collegiate Exchange Travel Program, the group spent two weeks hearing stories from A-bomb survivors in Hiroshima and Nagasaki and lectures at the United Nations Institute for Training and Research, the Hiroshima Peace Institute, and the Radiation Effect Research Foundation, among other activities.

www.uindy.edu 21 Teacher quality system

Education sees first-year success

A teacher effectiveness system launched has improved since TAP was in 44 Indiana schools last year—and implemented at this school.” administered by UIndy’s Center of 88 percent of administrators would Excellence in Leadership of Learning— prefer to work at TAP schools. was linked to higher student test scores TAP was developed by the National and won widespread support from Institute for Excellence in Teaching and teachers and administrators, according has proven successful in several states. to a new study. It includes elements seen as significant Dubbed TAP, the system is one changes to how schools have tradition- option being explored in response to the ally operated, such as a rigorous teacher new state law requiring every Indiana evaluation process and the awarding of school to adopt a system of evaluation- bonus pay to teachers based on both and performance-based compensation classroom observations and student for teachers. achievement and growth measures. The state Department of Education, Thumbs up from teachers which received $48 million in federal funding for a five-year TAP initiative, The system requires that 75 percent selected UIndy’s CELL to administer of teachers vote to approve TAP before and support the program. it can be implemented in a school. It CELL conducts training sessions, includes features intended to develop organizes site visits, and employs a and retain talented teachers in high-need statewide network of coordinators schools, including ongoing professional who help schools implement TAP. development and opportunities for The new study, commissioned by career advancement as “mentor” or the state and conducted by Interactive “master” teachers, who receive higher Inc., compared TAP schools to other salaries to lead their schools’ professional schools and found that: development efforts. on ISTEP+, the TAP schools The 44 schools that launched TAP outperformed the control schools last year included charter and traditional in 15 of 21 possible score combina- public schools at the elementary, middle, tions, a trend that held true across and high school levels in Indianapolis, socioeconomic categories and Hammond, Goshen, Evansville, for nearly every ethnicity. In the Marion, and other communities. elementary grades, ISTEP+ pass All participating schools had more rates were three percentage points than half of their students qualifying for higher in language, math, and free or reduced-price lunch. Two more combined scores. schools have implemented the program 79 percent of career teachers this fall, bringing the total to 46. agreed that “TAP has improved Interactive will use the first-year instructional practices of teachers at results as a baseline for continued study this school,” and about two-thirds of TAP’s effectiveness throughout the agreed that “Student performance life of the five-year grant from the state’s Teacher Incentive Fund.

22 UIndy 1400 Network aims to improve Indiana workforce readiness

Indiana Education Roundtable partners with UIndy reform center in statewide effort to align education offerings with regional economic opportunities

The Center of Excellence in Leadership to reach 60 percent by the year 2025. readiness. These regional partners are of Learning at UIndy is home to a new EWIN was created to address submitting applications for sub-grants initiative working to better align the glaring gaps between educational and up to $75,000 from EWIN to foster state’s educational opportunities with the economic development sectors. Its goals collaboration. realities of the state’s workforce needs. are two-fold: Graduating with skills EWIN, the Indiana Education develop and support regional Ultimately, EWIN is working to ensure Workforce Innovation Network, was partnerships across Indiana with that every Hoosier student graduates established through grant funding by the intent of addressing high school from high school with the skills needed Lilly Endowment and the Joyce remediation, dual-credit alignment, to succeed in college or a career. Foundation. CELL will partner with and innovative models of career and Together with its regional partners, Indiana’s Education Roundtable to technical education for youths and EWIN is helping Indiana develop a address key issues related to remediation, adults, and strong workforce prepared for the dual credit, and career and technical convene a network of statewide challenges of a global economy. education to prepare Indiana’s children education and workforce alignment Sara B. Cobb, Lilly Endowment for the future workforce. partners to facilitate communication vice president for education, said the and collaboration. Worrisome numbers network’s goals reflect priorities long In January, EWIN hosted a summit The numbers clearly indicate that held by the Endowment. bringing together groups of education, Indiana has a problem. The Hoosier “For many years, Lilly Endowment economic, and workforce leaders from state ranks 42nd in the number of has supported efforts to align academic around the state to begin conversations 25- to 64-year-olds with an associate’s preparation of the state’s residents with on how Indiana can im prove its degree or higher. In 2011, the most the needs of Indiana employers,” Cobb pathways to career goals for students. recent year for which data is available, said. “We are pleased that two prominent EWIN is working with seven Indiana’s attainment rate for that statewide organizations, CELL and the regions around the state to develop demographic was 38.7 percent, far short Indiana Education Roundtable, are plans for advancing efforts in workforce of the Lumina Foundation’s challenge working together toward this objective.”

Governor announces new teaching fellows

Indiana Governor Mike Pence gave receive an additional $5,000 to help has been funded with grants from Lilly his stamp of approval when the fifth cover living expenses, thanks to a grant Endowment Inc. and supplemental cohort of Woodrow Wilson Indiana from Dow AgroSciences. state support. Launched in Indiana, Teaching Fellows was announced at the program has since been established 200+ already in classrooms the Statehouse in May. in Ohio, Michigan, and New Jersey. This year’s 30 new Woodrow Wilson UIndy is one of just four universi- “We estimate that the Woodrow Indiana Teaching Fellows, selected after ties in the state that offer the fellowship, Wilson Indiana Teaching Fellows to a rigorous yearlong application and an intensive one-year master’s degree date will reach more than 22,000 selection process, will spend much of program that prepares career changers students every year,” said Arthur Levine, the next year gaining hands-on experi- and recent graduates to teach STEM president of the Woodrow Wilson ence in classrooms before tackling the subjects in high-need high schools. National Fellowship Foundation. profession full-time in the fall of 2014. Each fellow receives a $30,000 “The fellows represent a 25 percent Since 2009, the program has stipend in exchange for a commitment annual increase in Indiana’s supply of produced 226 new teacher candidates to teach for at least three years in a STEM teachers. Veteran teachers are for Indiana. The Woodrow Wilson qualifying school, with ongoing support reporting that, even in their clinical National Fellowship Foundation and mentoring. The eight fellows year, fellows are an extraordinary administers the program, which entering the program at UIndy will resource in the classroom.”

www.uindy.edu 23 CAC tapped Again for major nursing home initiative Programs The Center for Aging & Community at UIndy, known for its work on nursing-home healthcare initiatives, has a key role in an Indiana University-led project that has received a multi-million-dollar federal grant. CAC Executive Director Ellen Miller serves on the project team for OPTIMISTIC, which stands for Optimizing Patient Transfers, Impacting Medical Quality and Improving Symptoms: Transforming Institutional Care. In a four-year effort, IU and Regenstrief Institute clinician-researchers will work with 19 central Indiana nursing facilities to improve care, reduce hospitalizations, and increase access to palliative care for long-term nursing facility residents. CAC will coordinate all training for participating nurses and nursing home personnel. Also, Dr. Anne Thomas, dean of UIndy’s School of Nursing, co-chairs the OPTIMISTIC advisory board. Indiana is one of seven states where such pilot projects are being funded by the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services. According to the project announcement, 45 percent of hospitalizations of people receiving Medicare or Medicaid nursing facility services could be avoided. The cost of these unnecessary transfers and hospitalizations was estimated between $7 billion and $8 billion in 2011.

Teacher Ed programs are ‘Model of Excellence’

The teacher-preparation programs in launched in 1995, that now includes partners with four local school UIndy’s School of Education have University classes conducted in districts to provide an intensive year received a 2013 Model of Excellence district schools, UIndy students of field work for master’s candidates Award from the national Association tutoring at multiple grade levels, preparing to teach math and science of Independent Liberal Arts Colleges and UIndy and Decatur faculty courses in urban schools. (See page for Teacher Education. sharing professional development 23.) The program’s curriculum is The Department of Teacher opportunities and serving on district developed collaboratively by faculty Education, chaired by Associate and University committees. from UIndy’s School of Education Professor Beverly Reitsma, is recognized partnerships with the Wayne and and College of Arts & Sciences. in the Partnerships category for its Perry township school districts and This is not AILACTE’s first nod collaborative work with local K-12 Christel House Academy charter to UIndy, which claimed a Model of schools and with other academic school that allow teaching candidates Excellence Award in the Liberal Arts departments on campus. to work with diverse student category in 2002 for interdisciplinary Examples of teacher-education populations and experience various collaborations on campus. partnerships include: education settings and technologies. a relationship with the Metropolitan UIndy’s Woodrow Wilson Indiana Contact Beverly Reitsma, Chair, Teacher Education, at 317-788-3366, School District of Decatur Township, Teaching Fellowship Program, which [email protected]

24 UIndy 1400 New Master’S in Sport Management Added to Kinesiology Offerings

The first master’s degree program in to six times each semester with an The program involves 36 credit the Department of Kinesiology prepares expert practitioner. Students complete hours of study that can be completed in working professionals to move into 36 credit hours of study, which can be less than two calendar years. The hybrid management-level careers in intercol- completed in 21 months (two academic format combines some weeknight class legiate athletics. years and one summer). meetings with online study and The Master of Science in Sport experiences in the field. Management offers online coursework Industry pros are mentors, Graduates will be prepared for while making the most of UIndy’s even after graduation work in areas including facility and location near downtown Indianapolis, Classes are co-taught by national govern- operations management, business and “Amateur Sports Capital of the World” ing agencies’ staff, conference offices, ticket office management, compliance, and home of the NCAA headquarters. and intercollegiate athletics programs development, sports information, and The hybrid course model lets based in Indy. Each student is paired media relations. students complete much of their with a professional mentor for advice Learn more at http://kinesiology. coursework online while meeting five and support, even after graduation. uindy.edu.

School of Business launches area’s only one-year MBA

A new option for students seeking a international students seeking meet on the UIndy campus from 8 to Master of Business Administration an efficient route to a U.S. 11 a.m. Monday through Thursday. degree will debut this year at the business credential; and The tuition includes the cost of University of Indianapolis. graduates with degrees in non-busi- a laptop and required software, as well UIndy’s School of Business— ness fields, such as arts or health as the cost of international travel for an which already offers evening, Saturday, care, who plan to start their independent study course on global and off-campus MBA options—is own businesses. business issues. rolling out the only full-time, daytime, Students will take four to five The program is fully accredited by one-year MBA program in the India- courses per term over three terms, from the Accreditation Council for Business napolis area, aimed at: August to August each year, for a total Schools and Programs. undergraduates seeking to boost job of 42 credit hours. Classes, led by More information is available at prospects and starting salaries with faculty with industry experience, will 317-788-6206 or mba.uindy.edu. just one additional year of study;

New master’s program Hones organizational leadership A new master’s degree program at the societal, economic and psychological student designs an organization or University of Indianapolis takes a fresh contexts; the focus is less quantitative redesigns an existing one. approach to the study of leadership, and more qualitative and behaviorally The courses are offered in a hybrid emphasizing human-resources and oriented and examines all the systems format of online activities and weekly problem-solving skills that can boost within an organization. evening meetings, with students being the effectiveness of businesses or grouped in cohorts for mutual support. Developing vital skills not-for-profit organizations. Students can work full-time while The Master of Science in Strategic The program includes entire courses completing the 36 credit hours in just dedicated to vital skills that sometimes Leadership & Design is the first two years. are glossed over in management and graduate program to be offered by The degree is applicable to a leadership training, such as performance UIndy’s School for Adult Learning, range of career options in nonprofit or appraisal and conflict resolution. which specializes in evening programs public-sector leadership, commercial for working adults. Courses include Organizational business, project management, Judy Apple-VanAlstine, dean of the Design, Cognitive Systems, and consulting, and other fields. Managing Information Technology School for Adult Learning, notes that Find more information at http:// Systems. As a capstone project, each the program looks at leadership in its www.uindy.edu/sal/strategic-leadership.

www.uindy.edu 25 This just in: student-journalists cover 2012 election live

Student-journalists from the University of Indianapolis Department of Communication provided multimedia coverage of the 2012 elections for audiences in Central Indiana. UIndy students reported on local and state elections, as well as the presidential election, with in-studio hosts and field Curriculum reporters placed at the Republican, Democratic, and Libertarian state headquarters. The coverage could be heard on WICR 88.7 FM/HD and viewed on campus on UIndy TV5. It was a new adventure for the UIndy TV5 staffers, as this was the first year they offered live election coverage. There were 16 student-journalists staffing WICR and 19 staffing UIndy TV5 on election night. In the months prior to the election, students prepared for election night by researching candidates and election-related issues. Scott Uecker, General Manager of WICR & UIndy TV5 and Instructor of Communication, says he was pleased with what the students accomplished. “Election night seems to get people excited. Everything is breaking news. It gives students the opportunity to think on their feet, present without a script, and generally have a lot of fun,” he said. “And it’s interesting to see the students grow throughout the evening.” ‘Best in Indiana Journalism’: WICR-FM anchor wins first place The Indiana Professional Chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists recently awarded UIndy student and WICR anchor Jason Newhouse with first place in the “Best in Indiana Journalism” contest for radio election night coverage. According to the SPJ judge, “WICR clearly puts a lot of effort into election reporting with reporters at campaign headquarters giving periodic updates from the field. “There were election updates and then, just as we start wondering what all of it means, the host brings in an outside poll watcher to explain. Nicely done, with very timely updates, excellent pacing, and solid content.” For more on TV5: http://tv5.uindy.edu/. UIndy TV5 on Facebook. Follow UIndy TV5 on Twitter @UIndyTV5 For more on WICR: http://wicr.uindy.edu/. WICR on Facebook. Follow WICR on Twitter @WICRonline

Ancestry.com / UIndy team for first-of-its-kind partnership

The University of Indianapolis teamed in 2012–13 with Ancestry.com, the world’s largest online family history resource, in a first-of-its-kind initiative that encouraged students to explore and reflect on how their family history affects their identity. All UIndy students, faculty, and staff were granted access to the Ancestry.com content. That content—11 billion searchable documents and images—includes census records, prison logs, ship manifests, historic newspapers, and yearbook photos in addition to 40 million online family trees. The company provided on-campus workshops and seminars to help the Bertice Berry UIndy community make the most of the online product. As a starting point for the students’ exploration of heritage, the University adopted a common reader for the campus community, the 2009 book The Ties That Bind: A Memoir of Race, Memory, and Redemption by Bertice Berry. An African-American sociologist and writer, Berry had explored her family history to find a story far more complex than the black-and-white tale of slavery and tragedy that she expected. Three-fourths of the University’s incoming freshmen voluntarily bought the book; hundreds then attended a campus lecture by Berry in September. Access to the site was a key component in the annual University Series of programs and events. This year’s series featured guest speakers, discussions, and workshops built around a theme, “Who Do You Think You Are?” Coordinators of UIndy’s University Series hoped students would uncover life-changing revelations in their family histories. Assistant Professor Jamal Ratchford, however, took the opportunity a step further and incorporated Ancestry.com into some of his History classes—another first—where students discovered family ties to World War II, segregation, John Dillinger, and the Boston Red Sox, among other things. Fifty students went on to present their findings in a poster session.

26 UIndy 1400 Kinesiology, Athletic Training move to College of Health Sciences

The departments of Athletic Training and Kinesiology will join the College of Health Sciences at the start of the 2013–14 academic year. The move makes both units more comprehensive, from undergraduate to graduate degrees, and brings exciting possibilities to students and faculty in the classroom and with applied activities. Stephanie Kelly, dean of the College of Health Sciences, says the realignment will offer cooperation in teaching, community engagement, and scholarship among the health, wellness, and rehabilitation areas at UIndy. As is the case with the other academic units within the College of Health Sciences, Athletic Training and Kinesiology promote wellness and prevention. With increasing health care reform and the growing focus on prevention and wellness, students will leave with a broad perspective and skill sets on how to work with real-world issues. Additional academic program opportunities may arise from the synergies created by the move, according to Kelly. “This will help UIndy and the College of Health Sciences increase its visibility,” she says, “as a leader preparing undergraduate and graduate students for health- related professions.”

Top UIndy degree programs lead to state’s Hot 50 jobs

The Indiana Department of Workforce Development released a new Hoosier Hot 50 Jobs ranking this spring, and once again, the future looks bright for graduates of UIndy’s top programs. Physician, registered nurse, and physical therapist top this year’s list, corresponding nicely to UIndy’s programs in pre-medicine, nursing, and physical therapy. Other UIndy-related disciplines in the Top 20 alone include post-secondary teacher, social worker, marketing specialist, graphic designer, K-12 teacher, and occupational therapist. The DWD researchers weigh trends in salary, job availability, and other factors in compiling the annual list, projecting the state’s fastest-growing, high-wage occupations for the year 2020. It’s no coincidence that some UIndy folks are featured in the photos and video profiles that represent each occupation on the state’s website, including business Professor Jerry Flatto and physical therapy alumna Nichole Wilson, director of Rehab and Sports Medicine, Community Health Network. The full list of the Top 50 jobs and profiles are available at www.HoosierHot50.com. $1.35-million gift funds teacher education scholarship

A new scholarship at the University of Indianapolis helps promising teacher candidates complete their bachelor’s degrees, thanks to the generosity of a UIndy alumna and her husband. The Delbert and Virginia Stevens Education Scholarship is funded by a $1.35-million endowment from the deceased LaPorte couple’s estate. Virginia Stevens, a 1942 graduate of UIndy, retired from LaPorte Community Schools after a career as a teacher and principal. She died in 2011. Delbert Stevens, who died in 2010, taught for many years in the Hammond school system. Full-time students in good standing, and majoring in Elementary Education or Mathematics Education, are eligible to receive the tuition assistance for their junior year, renewable for the senior year. “Once they get into that junior year, they’ve shown that they’re committed to education,” explained Kathy Moran, dean of UIndy’s School of Education. Also, she noted, the scholarships may help some students avoid the need to work for additional income as they enter the most rigorous portion of their undergraduate education. “The junior and senior years are so intense,” Moran said. “This helps us to reduce that financial pressure for our top students.” The school’s Department of Teacher Education identifies potential candidates during the sophomore year and gives preference to students with financial need who have demonstrated leadership and a commitment to community service. Multiple students can receive the scholarship each year.

www.uindy.edu 27 Nursing

Nursing programs & Partnerships School adapts to community needs

28 UIndy 1400 Partnership with St. Francis addresses primary care gap As demand for primary healthcare services exceeds capacity, the University of Indianapolis and Franciscan St. Francis Health are expanding their educational partnership to help more nurses advance their careers and become family nurse practitioners. Nurse practitioners can counteract the growing shortage of primary care physicians by providing such services as initial evaluation of patients, ongoing care for chronic diseases, and preventive screenings and immunizations. In August, under the new agreement, UIndy’s School of Nursing will begin offering Master of Science courses with the Family Nurse Practitioner specialty at a Franciscan St. Francis education facility near its Indianapolis hospital at 8111 S. Emerson Avenue. Nurses with bachelor’s degrees enter the program in cohorts of 12 to 15, meet for evening classes and clinical experiences designed to fit their work schedules, and emerge three years later with an advanced degree. Franciscan St. Francis will provide tuition reimbursement for nurses from its Indianapolis, Mooresville, and Carmel hospitals and its physician practices in the area. According to projections, Franciscan St. Francis needs to add more than 100 nurse practitioners to its system by 2016 to meet the demand for primary care. The new program is the third master’s degree partnership between the two organizations, joining two ongoing programs that focus on nursing education and health systems leadership. UIndy also provides bachelor’s degree programs in nursing for Franciscan St. Francis and Hendricks Regional Health, as well as associate’s, bachelor’s, and master’s degrees for IU Health.

School of Nursing launches doctoral degree program The need for nurses with advanced clinical and management skills continues to grow. The UIndy School of Nursing has answered that need by launching its first doctoral program: the Doctor of Nursing Practice. Aimed at nurses working in administrative or advanced-practice roles, the post-master’s program will provide students with a mix of clinical, organizational, financial, and leadership skills. Graduates will be prepared to use the latest research to enhance patient care and to evaluate and improve healthcare delivery systems. The first will begin this fall. The School of Nursing, known for its range of Master of Science specialties, noted that a dozen post-master’s-prepared nurses from various specialties comprised the first cohort; a third were from among its alumni ranks. Anne Thomas, the School’s dean, said, “They’ve been asking us for a program like this,” she said. “Many hospitals in the area are now seeking doctorally prepared leaders for executive and mid-level management positions.” The degree will also be valuable to nurse practitioners, clinical nurse specialists, and nurse anesthetists. Aside from an intensive three-day session on campus at the start of each semester, the 35-credit-hour program will be provided in an online format convenient for working professionals. Full-time students can complete the courses and field work in two years, including a summer session, but most are expected to choose a part-time option to be completed in three years, including two summer sessions. Students will proceed through the curriculum in cohorts of 10 to 12, with new cohorts beginning each year. Contact graduate academic advisor Jane Kress at 317-788-2128 or [email protected]; or Associate Professor Corinne Wheeler, coordinator of the DNP program, at 317-788-6226 or [email protected].

RN-to-BSN program goes online The University of Indianapolis is taking one of its most popular nursing degree programs online, making it accessible to working nurses throughout the state who want to advance their careers. UIndy’s School of Nursing first launched its RN-to-BSN program in the early 1990s to help registered nurses—licensed after two to three years of education—to complete their bachelor’s degrees, which are becoming the healthcare industry standard. The program is offered in an accelerated hybrid of weekly class meetings and online content that can be completed in 12 months, and also in on-site formats designed for employees of the IU Health, Hendricks Regional, and Franciscan St. Francis health systems. Beginning this fall, the same UIndy curriculum will be available in an online format that also can be completed in 12 months. The online program is open to licensed nurses working in Indiana. Financial aid is available, and students will have the flexibility to move from the hybrid to online format, or vice versa, as their circumstances change. Evolving standards among healthcare providers and nursing professional associations are making the Bachelor of Science in Nursing degree more important than ever, said Connie Wilson, director of the RN-to-BSN program. The industry is bracing for a wave of retirements. Enrollment in two-year associate’s degree programs is increasing, but most nurses will be expected to complete their bachelor’s degrees within five years of entering the field. Also, major hospital systems are now adopting the nursing associations’ recommendation that 80 percent of their nursing workforce should hold bachelor’s or advanced degrees by 2020. Nurses who delay obtaining higher degrees may find career options limited. More information is available at nursing.uindy.edu.

www.uindy.edu 29 ‘Why Arts?’ event considers city’s cultural future More than 300 artists, patrons, “Why Arts? Why Indy?” was the brainchild of Dr. and arts administrators gathered Kathleen Hacker, associate professor and chair of UIndy’s

Community at the University in December for Department of Music. Although she had been mulling a frank and spirited discussion the idea for some time, the viability of the city’s arts on the challenges facing the organizations became a hot topic last fall when budget Indianapolis cultural scene. concerns forced the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra The centerpiece of the event to cancel performances. was a panel discussion featuring Amid the public concern over that issue, Kaiser and Michael Kaiser, president of the the other panelists were quick to sign on for the event. Michael Kaiser, president, John F. Kennedy Center for the With that group now serving as an advisory board of John F. Kennedy Center Performing Arts in Washington. sorts, Hacker is working to formalize the vision, mission, for the Performing Arts, Assisted by moderator and structure to create an organization that can seek on the ‘Why Arts?’ panel Dennis Ryerson, retired editor funding and host further discussions and other events. of the Indianapolis Star, Kaiser She also hopes to bring other universities, schools, and talked and fielded questions with co-hosts David Hochoy, arts groups into the process. artistic director of Dance Kaleidoscope; Glen Kwok, “How do the arts define Indianapolis? Why are the arts executive director of the International Violin Competition vital to the fabric of a great city? How can this community of Indianapolis; Beth Perdue Outland, vice president for help its arts organizations face the current challenges?” Community Engagement & Strategic Innovation with Hacker said. “These are important questions. People need the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra; Steven Stolen, a way to discuss them, and I’m pleased that UIndy can then managing director of Indiana Repertory Theatre; and provide that forum.” Jim Walker, executive director of the Big Car community See WFYI Production’s video of the December 10 arts collective. “Why Arts? Why Indy?” event at http://vimeo.com/55792179.

High-tech, high-touch history exhibit features UIndy

The 111-year history of the University of Indianapolis is now a Destination Indiana includes stories from all of Indiana’s part of an interactive visitor experience at the Indiana Histori- 92 counties, with information about major industries, ethnic cal Society’s downtown headquarters: Destination Indiana. groups, social trends, geographic features, everyday life, and The installation features an array of high-tech touch- such major historical events as Hoosiers’ involvement in the screens that allow visitors to explore points of interest around Civil War. the state and take self-guided journeys through time with The Eugene and Marilyn Glick Indiana History Center historic photos, documents, and accompanying text. The is located on the Central Canal at 450 W. Ohio Street. UIndy story can be found through a name search function.

30 UIndy 1400 CELL conference explores critical topics in education

As sweeping new education reform legislation takes hold in Indiana schools, the state’s largest annual conference on the subject took place November 14 and 15 in Indianapolis. School choice, teacher quality, and other hotly debated issues were on the agenda for the seventh annual Indiana’s Future conference, organized by the University of Indianapolis Center of Excellence in Leadership of Learning and presented Go long: Super Bowl this year by the Lilly Foundation. The event at the Indiana Convention Center featured 81 turf moves to Tech sessions with nearly 140 presenters, including national and After its year of temporary use at UIndy, the artificial turf on local education, policy, and business leaders. which the Super Bowl champion New York Giants practiced Several conference sessions offered a state and national has been installed at its long-term home, Arsenal Technical perspective on teacher evaluation systems, a topic of special High School on the city’s Near Eastside. interest to Indiana school corporations, which are required to Local Super Bowl planners initially intended to create adopt evaluation plans next year. an NFC practice facility at Tech by placing a temporary cover Charlotte Danielson, internationally known expert on over the school’s outdoor football field. They saved millions assessing teacher effectiveness, delivered the keynote. and avoided some neighborhood concerns by instead using Other sessions covered charter schools, school vouchers, UIndy’s Athletics & Recreation Center dome, already sched- project-based learning, the use of technology and the impact uled for construction. Today, players at the inner-city school of technological change on education, the role of the business enjoy the benefits. community in driving education reform throughout Indiana, Back at UIndy (above), the process of returning the ARC and legal ramifications of Indiana’s new reform laws. dome to its ultimate role as a multipurpose athletics and This fall’s Indiana Education Transformation Conference activity space is complete. The concrete structure inside the is slated for November 12–13 at the Wyndham Indianapolis dome’s south end houses a new weight room, restrooms, West. More information is available at cell.uindy.edu. public lockers and showers, track and field offices, and storage space. New rubbery flooring includes a six-lane running track.

Graduate offers hair for Colts cancer cause

University of Indianapolis alumna and Indianapolis Colts cheerleader Megan Meadors made national news in November with a unique approach to raising money for leukemia research. Megan, who earned her Master of Occupational Therapy degree in 2009 and now works as an occupational therapist for American Senior Communities, agreed to have her head shaved by Colts mascot Blue at the Colts-Bills game if he could raise $10,000 by game time for research at the IU Health Simon Cancer Center. Blue issued his $10,000 challenge to cheerleaders via Twitter over the previous weekend, and Megan—a former Megan acknowledged that hair is an important accessory Miss Indiana, no less—accepted. for cheerleaders but said that it was a small price to pay to help She sacrificed her auburn tresses as part of the team’s leukemia patients. Chuckstrong campaign, inspired by coach Chuck Pagano’s After undergoing cancer treatments throughout most of battle against leukemia. More than 20 players shaved their the 2012 football season, Pagano was cleared by doctors to heads to raise awareness for the cause. return to the sidelines.

www.uindy.edu 31 UIndy hosts national Lilly Fellows conference

Higher-education representatives from across the country traveled to campus last fall as UIndy hosted the national conference of the Lilly Fellows Program in Humanities and the Arts. Campus LFP’s National Network is the largest ecumenical consortium of church-related colleges in the United States, and UIndy has been a member since 1997. Michael Cartwright, dean of Ecumenical & Interfaith Programs, is UIndy’s administrative representative in the network. Jim Ream, chair of the Department of Theatre, is the faculty representative; he also wrote and directed a one-act play that faculty, students, and staff presented to the conference attendees. The conference theme was “Incorporating Service: The Body at Work,” which resonates with UIndy’s long history of “Education for Service.”

United Methodist News follows UIndy newcomers

The United Methodist News Service has published several installments of its series about two people who joined the University of Indianapolis community just last year: freshman student Andy Wegg and “freshman” University President Robert L. Manuel. Joey Butler, editor of young adult content for United Methodist Communications, followed both men through the academic year in stories published at www.umc.org and made available to United Methodist-related publications around the country. One piece covered a busy first semester for the pair. Wegg took 18 hours of classes, plunged into campus activities, and played the lead in the Department of Theatre’s production of Little Shop of Horrors. Dr. Manuel, among other initiatives, launched the Vision 2030 strategic planning process and made national news by working with Senator Richard Lugar to create UIndy’s new Lugar Academy—all the while attending campus events and striving to connect with students. Toward that end, he also caught a pie in the face on UIndy TV5’s “After the Update.” The University of Indianapolis, founded in 1902 by the United Brethren Church, is today affiliated with the United Methodist Church. For more on the UMNS series, visit http://inumc.org/news/detail/2851.

A site for sore eyes: website wins international award

The University of Indianapolis website, www.uindy.edu, has won another major award for its new look and structure. Local marketing and design firm Rare Bird, which created the site in collaboration with UIndy’s departments of Communications & Marketing and Information Systems, received an Outstanding Website designation in the international Web Marketing Association’s WebAward competition in 2012. This is not the first recognition for the website, which was further refined and updated in March with a vibrant new home page. The site, www. uindy.edu, claimed Best Overall Website and Best Home Page honors in the 2011 EduStyle Higher-Ed web awards. To read more about the honors, visit http://tinyurl.com/aa8abaz.

32 UIndy 1400 Rededication honors history-making Crowe brothers

Two University alumni who went on to make national history were honored when the University rededicated a residence hall in their honor. UIndy’s New Hall was renamed Ray & George Crowe Hall last fall in honor of legendary high school basket- ball coach and public official Ray Crowe, a 1938 graduate, and his younger brother George, a 1943 grad and barrier-breaking professional athlete. Hallie Bryant, who played for Ray’s Members of the Crowe family gathered at UIndy on Homecoming Weekend to celebrate. Crispus Attucks High School team and later spent 27 years with the Harlem As a student, Ray earned nine three-sport standout at Indiana Central, Globetrotters, spoke at the rededication, letters in basketball, track and baseball, which other siblings also attended. After as did Ray’s son Lloyd Crowe, now a as well as the education degree that serving overseas in the Army from 1943 deputy chief with the Indianapolis informed his career as a teacher and to 1946, he began playing professional Metropolitan Police Department. coach. In 1966, he was elected to the basketball and baseball. He was thought Ray Crowe, who died in 2003, was Indiana House of Representatives, to be the first African-American player perhaps best known as coach of the serving two terms and chairing the to sign with the Boston Braves, which Crispus Attucks High School basketball House Education Committee. He later he did in 1949, playing in the minors team that won state championships in led the Indianapolis parks department before his big-league debut in 1952. 1955 and 1956, becoming the first from 1976 to 1979 and served on the As an All-Star infielder, George African-American team in the nation to City-County Council from 1983 to later played for the Cincinnati Reds claim a state title and launching the 1987, meanwhile serving 18 years on and St. Louis Cardinals. He was career of NBA star Oscar Robertson. UIndy’s Board of Trustees. inducted into the Indiana Basketball Ray was inducted into the Indiana George Crowe, named Indiana’s Hall of Fame in 1976, UIndy’s Hall of Basketball Hall of Fame in 1968 and first Mr. Basketball while playing for Fame in 1986, and the Indiana Baseball the University’s Hall of Fame in 1987. Franklin High School, also became a Hall of Fame in 2004. He died in 2011.

Seventh residence hall named in honor of first president

UIndy’s latest residence facility, Roberts Hall, is helping to accommodate growing enrollments at UIndy. Located on the south side of Hanna Avenue, Roberts Hall has an initial capacity of 170 and offers semiprivate bathrooms and other features that are designed to appeal to upperclassmen. Student input was reflected in its design, which includes kitchens and laundry facilities on each floor, plus a fitness center and mail room. The new dorm is named for the University’s co-founder and first president, the Reverend John Taylor Roberts. UIndy’s total enrollment in the fall reached a record 5,432. The University’s residential population has grown 50 percent in just 10 years.

www.uindy.edu 33 Business students place first in case competition

A team from UIndy’s student chapter of management challenge, UIndy placed degree program saw its first seven APICS: Association for Operations first in the field of 23 Midwest colleges. graduates just last year, and all of them

Standouts Management topped competitors from Assistant Professor Karl Knapp had found jobs in the field within a few Purdue, Indiana, and Ball State universi- advises this year’s team: Oksana Svyryd, weeks of graduation. UIndy also offers ties in early February to claim first place Chauncy McLeod, Gregory Wehmiller, an MBA concentration in Global in a business case competition. and, from last year’s winning squad, Supply Chain Management. The event at IUPUI was a warmup Kenny Albee and Charlotte Grant. APICS is a 44,000-member for the 16th annual APICS Great Lakes All are either majoring or minoring professional society that offers training District Student Case Competition in in Supply Chain Management, the use and resources related to production, Chicago. Last year at the competition, of information systems to optimize inventory, supply chain management, which requires students to analyze and workflow in the production and sale of materials management, purchasing, propose solutions to a supply chain manufactured goods. UIndy’s bachelor’s and logistics.

Sophomores named to Indy Food Fellows program

UIndy sophomores Lauren Joyal and Fund. Fellows are placed with a organization that maintains a garden at Allie Kast are among those awarded sponsoring organization that seeks to its westside headquarters, on educational fellowships for the coming year to work strengthen the Indianapolis food system programming, helping to develop the with community groups on issues of in one or more of the Indy Food Coun- garden, and creating outreach strategies food, nutrition, and sustainability. cil’s priority areas: health and nutrition; for a neighborhood grocery. Kast will The Indy Food Fellows program is a hunger, food access and/or social justice; work with Global Peace Initiatives as joint venture of the Indy Food Council ecological sustainability; and commu- project/outreach manager for its Peaceful and four local universities—UIndy, nity and economic development. Grounds community farm, café, and Butler, Marian, and IUPUI—with Joyal will work with Big Car, a farmer’s market in Southport and will support from the Efroymson Family nonprofit arts/community-development build the group’s volunteer base.

London, then Rio? Swimmer earns Paralympics slot

The freestyle/backstroke swimmer, experience amazing and is now looking whose lower left leg was amputated for forward to competing in the 2016 medical reasons when he was an infant, Paralympic Games in Rio de Janeiro. secured a spot on the U.S. men’s team “Just being there was awesome. during trials in North Dakota. Olympic Village and all the noise, Dalton was a four-year letterwinner meeting people from all over the world at his Elkhart high school before coming and building relationships with them— to UIndy to study exercise science. it was a great experience. Swimming with the Greyhounds “Walking out to a crowd of 18,000 this year, he earned his first college people gave me chills. Being there was letter, won the team’s mental attitude definitely an unreal experience,” said award, and finished eighth in the 1,650 Herendeen, who graced the winter cover freestyle to help UIndy take third place of the NCAA Champion magazine. UIndy sophomore Dalton Herendeen at the conference championships. Herendeen and the rest of the (above) earned a trip to the 2012 Because of the success he had USA Olympic and Paralympic athletes Paralympic Games in London. The enjoyed in mainstream competition, traveled to Washington, D.C., on Games took place last summer in the Herendeen initially resisted the idea September 13 to visit the White House wake of the London 2012 Olympic of competing in events for disabled and meet President Barack Obama. Games; he competed in five events. swimmers. But he reported finding the

34 UIndy 1400 ‘Peel of the day’ video wins national scholarship prize

UIndy junior Addie Ratcliff (above) claimed first prize, a $2,500 scholarship, in a national video contest sponsored by academic publisher Cengage Learning. The MindTap Slice of Your Life contest invited college students across the U.S. to submit videos using the process of peeling an orange to illustrate a point about learning. The setup was ideal for Ratcliff, a music major from Wabash, Indiana, who—oddly enough—last year had begun crafting whimsical and inspirational folk-art pieces from orange peels and placing them around campus, creating a minor sensation among fellow Student firm director Christi Larimer and team leader Katy Watson of Top Dog students. Her “Peel of the Day” project, which must be seen to be believed, has a fan page Communication celebrate after the on Facebook with hundreds of likes. Pinnacle Awards ceremony. “It’s definitely a temporary sort of art form,” she says, laughing. Ratcliff’s charming and deftly produced two-minute video on the project—she narrates but appears only as a pair of high-speed hands—was among 300 entries nationwide. Student agency As Ratcliff explains in the video, shot with her iPhone, the project originated when UIndy staffer-instructor Peter Nichols jokingly challenged her to peel an orange while is truly Top Dog keeping the peel intact. She began creating images and messages with peels and placing them at random locations on campus. UIndy’s student-run public relations Soon, students were buzzing about the “mysterious orange peel artist.” She started agency, Top Dog Communication, a Facebook page in March 2012; the rest is “Peel of the Day” history. claimed the two top student honors this The fact that Cengage happened to choose orange peels as a contest theme was spring at the annual Pinnacle Awards, a stranger-than-fiction coincidence, says Ratcliff. presented by the Hoosier Chapter of the “It was crazy,” she says. ”I actually had no idea about it until I started receiving the Public Relations Society of America. link from people who were fans of my peels, begging me to enter. It was kind of perfect.” In the programs category, which The project has taught her about creativity, overcoming challenges, and adapting covers all the strategy and elements of to change, she explains. an entire PR campaign, the honors went “I’ve learned that to truly learn means not giving up when the learning gets to a team led by senior Hannah Klare of difficult,” she says in the video. “And that is probably the most important thing we all Wabash, Indiana. The students devel- should learn.” oped a campaign to promote volunteer View the video at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WgscGp9Hpng. opportunities available through their client, Girl Scouts of Central Indiana. The projects award, for a particular element of a campaign, went to a team led by Katy Watson of Bargersville, Indiana, for its website work on a national campaign for Samaritan’s Feet, which provides shoes to the needy around the world. Top Dog gives students hands-on experience in public relations while providing a service to local nonprofit organizations. The agency’s faculty adviser is Dr. Rebecca Deemer, Distin- guished Professor of Service Learning and director of the public relations program in UIndy’s Department of Communication.

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University of Indianapolis faculty are busy writing, editing, and contributing to scholarly works. Here are some examples of UIndy faculty who published in 2012–13.

Stacie Fruth’s “purple book” has of clients with commonly seen symptoms, and two full-length been educating students in UIndy’s patient examinations, one musculoskeletal and one neurologi- Krannert School of Physical Therapy cal. The visual aids are invaluable to students, especially when for several years, but now it’s available learning how to recognize various disorders. to the world. “Unless the students can see it, they often don’t get it,” The initial version was a humble says Fruth, who also manages physical therapy services at classroom packet of just 38 pages UIndy’s Sutphin Center for Clinical Care in Fountain Square, explaining a few basic physical therapy where students serve uninsured patients. tests and measures. Fruth began The icing on the cake? Fruth persuaded the publisher assembling the guide shortly after joining the faculty in 2005, to make purple the dominant color in the book’s design. when she began teaching a Clinical Skills course to her “That was a deal breaker,” she says. first-semester students in the Doctor of Physical Therapy “They thought I was kidding.” program. Gradually it grew into a spiral-bound booklet with covers in her favorite color, purple. A newcomer to UIndy’s English faculty “I teach students when they’re just getting their feet wet,” has gained national attention this year the associate professor says. “There was no book out there that with his debut novel. covered the material I taught.” Assistant Professor Salvatore Pane There is now. Her 324-page Fundamentals of the Physical is the author of Last Call in the City of Therapy Examination: Patient Interview and Tests & Measures Bridges, a coming-of-age tale for the social was published in February by Jones & Bartlett Learning. media generation, published in November The book focuses on the ground-level realities practitioners by Braddock Avenue Books. Set in Pane’s face when presented with a new patient: how to listen, observe, former home of Pittsburgh around the build rapport, and assess a person’s needs step by step, regardless 2008 presidential election, the novel follows an overeducated, of age, sex, background, or which body systems are involved. underemployed hipster in his 20s, struggling to face adult How does one question lead to the next? What physical tests responsibility in an age of digital distraction. are in the toolbox, and when do you use each one? Reviews and interviews have appeared in such outlets “It runs the gamut of every basic test and measure that as the Huffington Post, Indianapolis Star, Nuvo, Pittsburgh we do,” Fruth says. “We want to teach you how to conduct a Magazine, and Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, which called Pane fundamental examination on anyone who walks in the door.” “a fiction writer and ironist of the first order.” During her work on the book—which included a wintry The Huffington Post asked Pane about the approach he month holed up in a Michigan cabin while on sabbatical—the took in writing about his own under-30 generation. publisher grew increasingly enthusiastic about the project, “In some ways, I wanted the book to have a timeless feel. upgrading it to full color with professional photography, video, It’s about a young man figuring his life out and what matters,” and accompanying website. Rather than using professional Pane answered. “But I thought it would be disingenuous to models, however, Fruth insisted on a more realistic approach, write about a contemporary 20-something and not have his putting actual patients, students, and faculty colleagues in worldview completely colored by the nauseating amount of front of the cameras. pop culture he’s no doubt absorbed. More than three days of shooting on campus produced 20 “Our generation came of age with Nintendo and cable videos, which are available on an accompanying website. They television and Napster. Every conversation I have with someone include instructions for various tests and measures, examples in my age group inevitably circles back to pop culture.”

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Having wrapped up his first year of teaching at UIndy, electoral votes than Douglas, the Northern Democrat originally Pane is planning a summer book tour with several stops across favored to win. the nation. Other recent work has included a chapbook of short “There were these other guys out there who took very stories, #KanyeWestSavedFromDrowning, published by NAP principled stands,” but they have been largely ignored in literary magazine, and the forthcoming original graphic novel, many accounts, Fuller says. The Black List, to be published this year by Arcana Studios. Another misconception the book dispels is that Lincoln— who collected only 40 percent of the popular vote—was a passive candidate who left the strategy to his handlers. The 1860 presidential election—which “Lincoln was a lot more active, and he was a political sent Abe Lincoln to the White House operator,” much like the character in the recent Steven and stoked the fires of secession and civil Spielberg film, Fuller says. war—is widely considered the most Illustrated with historic political cartoons and pictures of important in our nation’s history. the major players, the book includes a chapter by Lawrence However, the conventional focus Sondhaus, chair of UIndy’s Department of History & Political on the campaign between Republican Science. A specialist in European history, he explores opinions Lincoln and Democrat Stephen Douglas held at the time in England, France, Germany, and Austria, ignores complexities that reveal much where few anticipated the election’s sweeping consequences. about a young nation struggling with its identity, says UIndy Though aimed largely at fellow scholars, the book also history professor A. James Fuller. contains interesting material for casual history buffs, Fuller says. With contributions from several colleagues, Fuller has “It’s got a lot for historians; it’s got a lot for political brought a richer version of the tale to life as editor of The scientists,” he says. “And there’s a lot for anyone who’s inter- Election of 1860 Reconsidered, published this spring by Kent ested in how that important election played out.” State University Press. “My conception of it was, let’s rethink this election and test the traditional interpretation of it,” says Fuller, who has Professor of Modern Languages been teaching at the University for 14 years. Gerburg Garmann showcases both The book grew from the work of an informal Civil War her writing and her visual arts Study Group formed by local historians in 2008. Since then, talent in her book Unterwegs, im Kopf: the group has expanded to a regional association that conducts Gedichte und Bilder, or En Route, in an annual conference each fall, with members presenting the Mind: Poems and Paintings. papers for constructive criticism. Fuller organized the group’s The collection of 60 German- 2010 meeting at UIndy, and several of the papers became language poems and images of 59 chapters in the book. accompanying acrylic paintings was Fuller’s three chapters include a look at politics in Indiana, published in January by Hamburg-based academic publisher where a split among Democrats was more pronounced than IGEL Verlag. previously thought, with tensions driven as much by personal The multimedia approach is important to Garmann, and political ambition as by high-minded ideology. who teaches both German and French at UIndy. “You take these national issues and apply them to Indiana, “I am a strong believer in interdisciplinary endeavors of and it takes a much different shape,” says Fuller, who is finishing all kinds, including the arts, hence my combination of poetry a biography of Indiana’s Civil War governor, Oliver P. Morton. and painting,” she says. “The book is the result of 10 years of His other chapters cover the election’s two other major literary writing and painting meant to help showcase the candidates: Vice President John C. Breckinridge, who repre- interconnectedness of the arts as part of a broader academic sented the breakaway Southern Democrats and later became a cross-disciplinary engagement.” Confederate general; and Constitutional Union nominee John Garmann’s poems have appeared in many international Bell, a moderate who favored compromise. Each earned more literary journals and anthologies and her art is displayed widely.

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Maestro Raymond Leppard Alumnus Wade Baker A scene from I Hate Hamlet Why Arts? Why Indy? Jazz See page 30 for details of this discussion among arts leaders, hosted Midcoast Swing Orchestra by UIndy, of the challenges facing the Indianapolis cultural scene. headlines Jazz Week The Jazz Concert Series continued to welcome local and Faculty Artist Concert Series regional artists to campus throughout the year. Notable performers at these free concerts included the Wade Baker Maestro Leppard celebrates Quartet and the Ron Jones Quartet. Baker—a 2006 UIndy th graduate and already a fixture on the Cincinnati jazz scene— 85 birthday at UIndy performed pieces that ranged from traditional jazz to contem- The renowned Faculty Artist Concert Series, a jewel in the porary, pop-influenced sounds. Jones is a highly acclaimed alto crown of the University’s arts programming, saw yet another saxophonist who has shared the stage with some of the biggest successful season—complete with 18 concerts. names in jazz including Dianne Reeves, Wycliffe Gordon, UIndy’s longtime artist-in-residence, the internationally Rufus Reid, and Jamey Aebersold. acclaimed Maestro Raymond Leppard, kicked off the concert Jazz Week celebrated its sixth season, packing the second series again with an opening gala celebrating his 85th birthday. week of April full of energizing performances. UIndy student The series continued with strong performances in genres ensembles kicked off the week, followed by Steve Allee, Dick ranging from classical to jazz by more than 60 faculty members Sisto, Danny Walsh, and Steve Davis. The week concluded and friends. A number of renowned local ensembles graced the with a performance by the Midcoast Swing Orchestra, an stage, including Echoing Air, 3rd Man, Solaire Quartet, and authentic 1930s/1940s swing band. the Ronen Chamber Ensemble. Other series highlights: faculty performed music from the Theatre highly acclaimed 1961 studio album Nancy Wilson/Cannonball Adderley. Rebecca Sorley, Tamara Thweatt, and Mitzi Westra A little shop, a hatred for evoked the beauty of birdsong, offering their “Fine Feathered Friends: Music Inspired by Birds.” Thomas Gerber offered a Hamlet, and more lesson in Indiana history, performing pieces that exemplified The Department of Theatre opened its season with Little European music at the time of the state’s admittance into the Shop of Horrors, the popular musical production that focuses union as well as popular tunes from the 13 original colonies. on a down-and-out skid row floral assistant who becomes an The season wrapped with a whirlwind tour of the 19th overnight sensation when he discovers an exotic plant with a through 21st centuries, covering pieces by Marc Mellit, Eric mysterious craving for blood. The next production, Stop Kiss, Whitacre, and György Ligeti. explored a blossoming love and the aftermaths of a hate crime.

38 UIndy 1400 Graffiti in the gallery From ‘Flags, Art & the Midway’ Student composers

Continuing its tradition of an annual dinner theatre produc- Medley tion, the department produced I Hate Hamlet, a performance centered on an actor forced to play a part he hates. Student- Defying categorization directed productions closed out the year. There are many arts events on campus each year that don’t fit neatly into the established categories, including concerts of Art works by student composers as well as guest composers, various types of master classes, and much more. Here are a Graffiti goes mainstream few highlights from the 2012–13 calendar: The Christel DeHaan Fine Arts Center Gallery showcased The men of Wabash College Glee Club joined UIndy’s an eclectic mix of exhibitions. Women’s Chorus for a 15th annual collaborative concert. The gallery opened its season with FAB Crew: City UIndy’s Spring Choral Concert was also popular for its Walls to Gallery Walls, an exploration into the evolution of inclusion of Haydn’s “Nelson” Mass. the graffiti art form from a clandestine activity to the world Poets and novelists shared their works with the UIndy of mainstream exhibitions in commercial galleries and on community as part of the Kellogg Writers Series. Visiting museum walls. The FAB (Fantastic Aerosol Brothers) Crew writers included Heid E. Erdrich, Matt Bell, Stuart Dybek, created the exhibition’s centerpiece on Smith Mall while a and Quann Barry. live audience looked on. The dynamic period-instrument ensemble Echoing Air Other exhibitions included Only the Essentials, Jonpaul celebrated Halloween on campus with “Echoing Scare,” Smith’s exploration of systems and patterns in various media; a performance featuring the music of the 17th and 18th a UIndy Department of Art & Design Faculty Exhibition; the centuries and popular Halloween favorites. work of alumna Donna Maureen Stader in A Retrospective; Several composers visited campus to share their work, Formal/Informal Conversations, sculpture and monoprints including William Bolcom, Joan Morris, and Carter Pann. by Garry Bibbs; and the photography of Thomas Mueller in Schoolchildren and UIndy students also shared their Seduced by Color: Flags, Art, and the Midway. original works at performances throughout the year. During the winter, a new sculpture, created by Garry Bibbs, was added to UIndy’s Fifth Third Bank Campus Sculpture Walk, which includes more than 20 pieces. Visit online, then visit in person “On a Worldly Roll,” visible in front of the Christel DeHaan View our cultural calendar at http://www.uindy.edu/arts/. Fine Arts Center on Hanna Avenue, is a 22-foot stainless The Christel DeHaan Fine Arts Center alone offers more steel sculpture. (Want to take the full sculpture tour? A map than 100 events a year, many of them free. Join us! of the Fifth Third Sculpture Walk is available at http://www. uindy.edu/arts/sculpture-walk.)

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Taylor Eckert and Trevor Cox (tennis) with Jake Hartley, first baseball Academic GLVC All-Sports Trophy. Photo: GLVC All-American since 2001. Photo: Ryan Thorpe

For the first time, University of Indianapolis Athletics has claimed back-to-back top 10 finishes in the Learfield Sports Directors’ Cup, taking seventh in 2012–13 standings after a fifth-place finish in 2011–12. The back-to-back Great Lakes Valley Conference All-Sports Trophy Football team with GLVC championship Jenny Konop, Academic All-American. champs were the conference’s top team. trophy. Photo: Todd Moore Photo: Ryan Thorpe It’s UIndy’s fourth finish in the top 10, including three of the last five seasons. The Learfield Sports Directors’ Cup Greyhounds boast Indiana’s was developed as a joint effort of the National Association of Collegiate top athletics program Directors of Athletics and USA Today. Points are awarded based on each institution’s finish in up to 14 sports— seven women’s and seven men’s. It is the 10th time in 11 seasons UIndy is ranked in the top 20. In fact, the Greyhounds are consistently the top athletics program in the state; the University of Indianapolis has been the highest-ranked Indiana athletic program five times in the last six seasons. UIndy competes in Division II’s most competitive region, the Midwest, which boasts four of the top 15 teams. Maura Donahue, Academic All-American. Jennifer DeMotte, Academic All-American. Photo : Brian Drumm Photo: Steve DeMotte The Hounds closed the season with women’s golf winning its second straight regional championship and taking seventh in the country, while softball finished ninth by reaching the NCAA Midwest Super Regional. Men’s golf took 29th and men’s outdoor track and field added points for 37th place in their NCAA championship events.

Klay Fiechter, Academic All-American. Volleyball team with Midwest regional Photo:40 UIndy Ryan Thorpe1400 trophy. Photo: Steve DeMotte

Last fall, volleyball won a regional Best in the GLVC Keeping the ‘scholar’ championship and finished in a tie for UIndy is the 2012–13 winner of the third in the country, while the football in ‘scholar-athlete’ Great Lakes Valley Conference All- team reached the final 16 of the NCAA Sports Trophy. It is the second year in Division II graduation rate data show that Championship. The winter saw UIndy a row that the Hounds have topped the UIndy’s four-year Academic Success Rate earn points from men’s indoor track and GLVC and the fifth time overall. The average of 80 percent is eight points better field (sixth in NCAA Championships), Greyhounds took titles in six of the than the national average. wrestling (19th), women’s swimming GLVC’s 18 championship sports. The Greyhounds have 14 sports higher and diving (21st), and men’s swimming The Greyhounds opened the season than 75 percent, and volleyball, women’s and diving (22nd) at the D-II Winter by winning the first-ever GLVC football tennis, and men’s swimming and diving Sports Festival. Men’s and women’s championship in the fall, and men’s are at 100 percent. basketball contributed with appearances indoor track and field won its fourth Other outstanding ASR scores were in the NCAA Tournament. consecutive GLVC championship. turned in by men’s cross country/track (81), Regional championships UIndy added four more titles in football (77), men’s golf (90), men’s soccer A pair of UIndy athletics programs the spring as men’s and women’s golf (86), men’s tennis (89), women’s basketball proved the best in the Midwest by both won, with the women winning (78), women’s cross country/track (82), winning NCAA regionals. for the second year in a row. women’s golf (88), women’s soccer (92), The volleyball team earned the The men’s and women’s outdoor softball (93), and women’s swimming right to host the NCAA Championships track and field teams repeated as GLVC and diving (97). Midwest Regional and used the home champions for the fourth straight year. Division II student-athletes perform court advantage to win in dominant The women actually claimed their fifth significantly better than the general student fashion. The Greyhounds (31-8) consecutive conference crown. body, and UIndy student-athletes reflected defeated Rockhurst, Ferris State, and The Hounds posted strong finishes the national trend of outperforming the Hillsdale without dropping a set to win in women’s cross country, softball, general student body. their second regional championship and tennis, and volleyball for third-place Eight UIndy athletes were named advance to the NCAA Championships. points, and fourth-place markers in Capital One Academic All-Americans, the The Hounds went on to defeat East men’s cross country and tennis. highest national academic award possible. Making the first team were Maura Donahue Region champion New Haven in the SAAC champions, again Elite Eight to reach the national (at-large: swimming), Jenny Konop For the fourth straight year—and the semifinals for the first time before (at-large: golf), Jennifer DeMotte (softball), fifth of the last six years—the UIndy falling to national runner-up Tampa. Klay Fiechter (football), Andrew Mansaray Student-Athlete Advisory Committee With a jaw-dropping 46-stroke (football), and Ryan Barnett (soccer). won the GLVC SAAC Challenge. win at the NCAA Division II East Baseball’s Jake Hartley made the second UIndy amassed 519 points, 170 Super Regional, the women’s golf team team; men’s swimming sophomore Daniel more than runner-up Bellarmine. The collected its second consecutive regional Chan made the third team. Challenge is based on six attributes: crown. Three Greyhounds finished in The total of eight honorees is two learning, service, balance, passion, the top five, and UIndy advanced to the shy of UIndy’s record of 10 last season. sportsmanship, and resourcefulness. NCAA Championships for the fourth Conference academic awards recog- Points are earned via community time in the last five years. nized 216 individual Greyhounds, includ- service, GLVC Sportsmanship award The team wrapped up its season ing 186 GLVC student-athletes and 22 winners, GLVC Scholar Athlete of the with a seventh-place showing at the swimmers in the Great Lakes Intercollegiate Year Awards, Academic All-GLVC NCAA Division II Championship at Athletic Conference. Eight wrestlers earned honors, and Make-A-Wish donations. LPGA International in Daytona Beach. recognition from the D-II Wrestling The Greyhounds capped the season The performance marks the team’s Coaches Association. with more than 75 community service second-highest showing at the finals. Seven UIndy teams earned the GLVC projects completed by the 21 teams. Despite not having a single senior Team Academic Award for grade point Three teams (football, men’s indoor on its roster, the Greyhounds notched average. The Hounds were led by women’s track and field, and men’s golf) earned their fourth top-10 finish at the DII soccer (3.60 GPA) and women’s golf (3.54). GLVC Sportsmanship Awards, and Championship in the last five years, Other honorees were women’s basket- Klay Fiechter earned the 2012 football settling just one stroke back of sixth- ball (3.40), men’s soccer (3.39), women’s Scholar Athlete of the Year honor. place Tarleton State. UIndy placed third cross country (3.39), women’s tennis (3.39), UIndy has now won the award for at the 2009 championship, ninth in and softball (3.30). four straight years, and five of the last six. 2010, and ninth last year.

www.uindy.edu 41 The pride of UIndy: alumni are focus of ad campaign

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Tavis Smiley at 108th Commencement weekend Nearly 1,280 students earned University of Indianapolis diplomas this year. Graduate exercises took place on Friday, May 3; under- graduate commencement followed on Saturday afternoon. Broadcaster and author Tavis Smiley, speaking at UIndy’s undergraduate ceremony, challenged graduates to address the nation’s growing economic disparity, which he called a threat to democracy. “You have to have your own moral compass,” said Smiley, host of a nightly talk show on PBS as well as a show on Public Radio International. “If you can see the world through the prism of those who are disenfranchised, then that moral compass will serve you even better.” Smiley, named among “The World’s 100 Most Influential People” in 2009 by Time magazine, told the graduates that their academic achievements would give them not only opportunities in life but also responsibilities to their fellow citizens. He urged them to take leadership roles in fighting for the common good. This year, 428 graduate students and 849 undergraduates were eligible to receive diplomas in the weekend’s ceremonies. Ellen Annala, recently retired as president and CEO of the United Way of Central Indiana, addressed the graduate students and their supporters on Friday. Annala has been at the forefront of United Way’s commitment to focus greater resources, relationships, knowledge, and talents to improve conditions for children.

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