4 IUPUI All-Campus Bulletin 2006-08 Indiana University-Purdue University Columbus, IUPUI Introduction to created in 1970 (one year after the creation of IUPUI), In many areas, especially at the undergraduate level, is located one hour south of Indianapolis in the IUPUI sets its own policies and procedures, which IUPUI sophisticated, yet rural, town of Columbus, Indiana. are known as campus policies and procedures. This well-known town has been called an “architectural Both university and campus policies and procedures mecca,” boasting the exciting works of numerous appear in the opening sections of this bulletin. History internationally known architects. IUPUC has 35 full- Founded in 1969, IUPUI is an urban campus with the time faculty, who are highly regarded both nationally University College dynamic flavor of a metropolitan city of 1.4 million. and internationally, and 125 adjunct faculty. IUPUC The campus is just west of downtown Indianapolis, Undergraduates are admitted to IUPUI through partners with the Purdue University College of University College, which was created to help students within walking distance of the state capitol and other Technology, which has 12 full-time faculty. Both full- governmental offices, and the site of numerous make a successful transition to college life and select time and adjunct faculty teach at the Columbus campus an area of study. University College provides orientation, businesses and art, sports, education, and health and at its regional centers in Greensburg and Seymour. facilities. first-year seminars, and advising for entering students. The service area of IUPUC includes the counties of Students who meet entry-level requirements, and who IUPUI is one of eight campuses of Indiana University Bartholomew, Brown, Dearborn, Decatur, Jackson, have indicated their desire to enter a school that accepts and includes two Purdue University schools. The campus Jennings, Johnson, Ripley, and Shelby. first-year students, are simultaneously admitted to offers more than 240 degrees provided by 20 different Over 35 degree programs are offered at IUPUC. a school (known as dual admission). Once dual schools. Its 29,000 students represent 49 states and Nearly 1,900 students are enrolled. Approximately admission students complete the first six weeks 125 countries. Approximately 20,000 of those 50 percent are full time, and nearly 70 percent are successfully, they are certified to the appropriate schools. students are undergraduates, with about an equal female. IUPUC offers the advantages of affordability Other students remain in University College until they mix of traditional and adult students. Undergraduate and small class size, along with the high quality meet the admission requirements for their field of students annually use more than $83 million dollars students would expect at any IU or Purdue campus. study or complete 56 credit hours of course work. in financial assistance as they juggle jobs, families, community service, and academic pursuits. Each See the IUPUC section in this bulletin for more The Schools year some 4,000 students earn IU or PU degrees. specific information. Fields of study or disciplines are housed in schools at IUPUI. School policies and procedures govern all the IUPUI includes the only medical and dental schools in students within each school. Most fields of study are the state, the nation’s largest nursing school, and the IUPUI Mission housed in departments within the schools, but in some country’s oldest school of physical education. IUPUI Statement schools they may be called by other names, such as is among the nation’s 10 largest sites for graduate divisions. The departments and schools themselves professional education. With strong traditions in The MISSION of IUPUI is to provide for its determine degree requirements and whether students professional education, IUPUI is simultaneously constituents excellence in are eligible to receive a degree. Students must be in a developing new strengths in interdisciplinary inquiry, • Teaching and learning school and take a specific number of courses at IUPUI linking disciplines with professions in ways that • Research, scholarship, and creative activity (residence requirements) to be eligible for a degree. advance research, professional service, and learning. • Civic engagement, locally, nationally, and A current list of degree programs appears online at With external support of over $200 million in 2002, globally www.iupui.edu/academic/schoolsdepts.htm. IUPUI is the second-largest site for research in Indiana. With more than 2,100 full-time faculty, IUPUI is proud with each of these core activities characterized by Later sections in this bulletin cover each school of its teaching record and works to improve its teaching • Collaboration within and across disciplines in alphabetical order. The material includes general with on-going assessment and professional development. and with the community, school policies and procedures, followed by school The creation of the statewide community college system • A commitment to ensuring diversity, and and then specific degree requirements for all degrees will redefine IUPUI’s undergraduate mission. One result • Pursuit of best practices offered by the school including associate, bachelor’s will be that IUPUI will offer little or no remedial work. (or baccalaureate), master’s, and doctoral degrees. Rather, building on its prior partnerships and Special teacher certification and honors information articulations with Ivy Tech State College and A Brief Overview of is also included where relevant. This material is Vincennes University, IUPUI will continue to expand IUPUI followed by course descriptions. There is also a list its strategies for ensuring smooth transitions between In order to use this bulletin, it is critical that the of full-time faculty in the department or program. the two-year institutions and IUPUI. IUPUI aspires to reader understand IUPUI’s structure, policies, rules, More information on individual faculty is available be a model for urban universities nationally as well and procedures and how these factors affect specific in a comprehensive listing of full-time faculty at as internationally. students at different points in their career at IUPUI. the end of each school section. IUPUI is accredited by the North Central Association The IU and Purdue Systems The Columbus Campus of Colleges and Schools. Individual school and academic IUPUI is a part of two great public university systems- For Columbus-specific information relating to admission, programs are also accredited. For example, the Kelley Indiana University and Purdue University-and offers registration, financial aid, scholarships, placement School of Business and the School of Engineering and the greatest number and widest range of degrees testing, academic advising, orientation, and student Technology programs are accredited by the American in the state of Indiana. They range from two-year activities, see the IUPU Columbus section later in Assembly of Collegiate Schools of Business (AACSB) associate degrees and certificates to Ph.D. and this bulletin. and the Accreditation Board for Engineering and professional degrees. All degrees bear either the Technology (ABET), respectively. IU or Purdue designation. Students are, therefore, IUPUI has over 110,000 alumni living worldwide and affected by policies of Indiana University, Purdue an expanding and active alumni relations program to University, or both. Such university-wide policies serve the growing IUPUI campus. More than 77,000 and procedures are set by either the trustees or alumni live in Indiana, with two-thirds of that number the faculty with trustee approval. in the Indianapolis area. The rest are spread around the world with strong contingents in far-flung places such as Malaysia. General Information 5 one to two years of full-time study. Some graduate Types of programs may be taken on a part-time basis. Undergraduate Programs Doctor of Philosophy Degree Programs and Education Available at The doctorate is the highest degree awarded and Admission requires course work, comprehensive examinations, The best and most complete information source original research, and a dissertation. Three years IUPUI (Degree on admission standards and procedures is the of study beyond the master’s is minimal, and most IUPUI Beginning Freshman Admissions Guide students require more time to complete the course and Financial Aid Information booklet or the and Noncredit) work and research. Transfer and Visiting Student Admissions Guide Undergraduate Professional Degrees and Financial Aid Information booklet, which are IUPUI offers professional degrees in dentistry (D.D.S.), published annually and contain an application form, Certificate Programs law (J.D.), medicine (M.D.), and physical therapy fee schedules, detailed instructions, numbers to call, Certificate programs resemble minors but generally (D.P.T). All of these degrees require prior study at and the relevant deadlines. The Enrollment Center’s require more credit hours. Some certificate programs the bachelor’s level as a condition for admission Web site also provides information about admission are stand-alone programs, which means that a student to the program. for undergraduates and graduates, financial aid does not have to be working toward a two- or four-year information, and links to other key offices’ Web a. The Doctor of Dental Surgery (D.D.S.) requires sites. Prospective students may download a paper degree to