In the inaugural round of Welcoming Campus Innovator funding, twenty-four projects from units across IUPUI received nearly $500,000 in grants. The projects are currently being developed and will be showcased during IUPUI's 50th-anniversary year (2018-19). The proposals support Welcoming Campus Initiative themes, which you can see below.
Projects supporting this theme result in experiences and approaches that foster greater connection with IUPUI through greater understanding of who we are as a campus.
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Internet 3D technology will allow users to explore the legacy and heritage of exterior campus.
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Images of student involvement displayed in the Campus Center will communicate and accentuate IUPUI pride and traditions.
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Student driven skits, narrations, videos, and other performances will allow participants to share their narratives and highlight social issues. Tunnel of Oppression programming will be integrated into classrooms and Indy-based programs.
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Located in the University Library and BS connector hallway, these student-created museum-like displays--both physical and digital--will highlight IUPUI history in audio and video, and strategically placed large-format transparent photos--then vs. now.
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Projects supporting this theme contribute to IUPUI’s goals for student success by focusing on ways in which IUPUI can create a more welcoming campus for students and strengthen students’ sense of connectedness and belonging.
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This mentorship program matches up to ten LGBTQ+ mentors and mentees, promoting their retention and graduation.
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This project aims to create more opportunities for students to gain professional development and academic credit when employed in business units of the university; learning outcomes will be developed linked to individual school's programs.
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This program is designed to address the needs of students experiencing personal/social concerns, non-clinical in nature (e.g., stress, balancing priorities, homesickness, transition to college), that cause academic struggles. College Success Guides would be advanced graduate students in clinical based training programs at IUPUI (i.e., Social Work, Clinical Psychology, Art Therapy, and Counseling Education).
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This project will expand International House, developing new global learning themes becoming a co-curricular hub for activities that align with International Learning Goals.
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Additional funding for the mission of SAAB--Student African-American Brotherhood to support and enhance student experiences of inclusiveness of undergraduate African-American males.
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This project will feature health careers conference for medical students with a focus on 1st year students to expose them to the many variations of "health" careers.
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The IUPUI Celebration of Black Graduates is the largest signature program encompassing undergraduates, graduates, professional students, faculty, staff, campus leadership, and members of the community. The event currently draws 600 members of the community, and the Campus Center is limited to 800 guests. Funding would create an endowment account for future financial structure and planning to relocate this annual event to other venues.
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This project would allow people to "check out" a volunteer for 20 minutes to engage in informal conversation with coffee and snacks. Meet individuals unlike yourself and establish cross cultural connections. This interaction encourages participants to recognize and address their own stereotypes, prejudices, or general curiosities about diverse individuals and communities.
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This project will integrate IUPUI Intergroup Dialogue into the academic curriculum, creating a more inclusive environment through communication and gaining skills/expertise in civil discourse, intercultural communication, conflict resolution, and leadership. Participants will include students, staff, faculty and campus leaders.
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This project specifically aims to welcome low income and first-generation students, providing a welcome day and welcome apps. It will also include a faculty/staff professional development program, programs to improve customer service across campus, and training for student mentors and welcoming team.
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Projects supporting this theme promote pride and engagement through activities and enhancements to IUPUI’s physical space, such as improving campus navigation on and off campus, developing campus art fund, and identifying ways for students to have more interactions with faculty, staff, and administrators.
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This project will expand access to IUPUI public art collections. It includes the development of a web-based app that will provide digital curated walking tours and descriptions of art around campus. It also will feature two residencies--each a month long--that will bring two artists to IUPUI to create two site-specific public artworks for campus. Finally, it will focus on public art created by Herron students.
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This project will create an exhibition focused on IUPUI history in the east hallway of first floor Science & Engineering lab on Blackford Street. This exhibition will celebrate people that have lived in the immediate area of the building.
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This project addresses environmental issues on campus. Infusing sustainability into the student experience, it will strengthen the sense of connectedness to the IUPUI, community, and global environments. It will also focus on how to live a sustainable lifestyle, including waste diversion, water use reduction, and energy conservation. Finally, the project will assess current outdoor waste bins – including type, aesthetics, placement, and usage – and work with the University Architect's Office to identify and propose a new outdoor waste bin standard in order to provide uniform trash and recycling infrastructure across all of IUPUI’s campus.
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Projects supporting this theme foster connections within IUPUI and the broader community through events and activities that promote engagement.
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This project will establish four competitive awards for student-led, diversity-related projects designed by graduate-level students from Social Work and two from Philanthropy. It will also create a year-end event to recognize the Dynamic Diversity students and to share information about their projects.
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The next frontier in technology. Living labs to work on mutual problems with local companies. Provide state-of-the-art expertise benefiting local companies. Integrate this high tech area into engineering curricula and create job opportunities. Provide better collaboration between faculties from different IUPUI schools and attract better qualified faculty. Addressing brain drain.
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E-Sports @ IUPUI student group invites talented high school students to compete in online games awarding conditional scholarships to IUPUI. Provides an opportunity for students to be involved in a way that no other college in the mid-west offers.
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Multidisciplinary Immigrant Youth Mentoring Program; design a year-long program beginning with an intensive week-long camp. Pair SPEA students with local immigrant youth to assist in adapting to their home and school environments.
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Projects supporting this theme demonstrate strategies and approaches that can foster ongoing commitment by employees to IUPUI as well as by IUPUI to its employees.
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Develop hybrid online 1-hour workshops for faculty and staff in STEMM to address climate for equity and inclusion concerns for women and underrepresented minorities. Train campus facilitators to sustain efforts over time.
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Develop a staff mentoring program: Mentoring as an Engagement Mechanism is the central purpose of the program with professional and personal development serving as the drivers in peer networks, employee satisfaction, institutional engagement, and career development.
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The ultimate goal of this project was to educate faculty and staff about issues around career education and work experience for underserved student populations, including the strengths they bring to the professional work and the challenges they may face in career development. We also completed a needs assessment for what is now Paws' Closet and established an annual networking event for students.
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