- Concord Neighborhood Center Exhibition and Opening Celebration
Project description:
After working through two years of pandemic interrupted research and exhibit development, students, faculty, and community partners will celebrate the opening of the exhibition titled “Concord Neighborhood Center: Growing Together.” The exhibition celebrates CNC’s almost 150 years of service overall and decade of partnering with IUPUI. The celebration will be an opportunity to gather in person, build on relationships formed primarily virtually, and showcase community engagement, especially to sophomore anthropology majors and Museum Studies graduate students.
Date: August 2021 and September 2021
Project members:
- Elizabeth Kryder-Reid, Professor of Anthropology and Museum Studies
- Susan Hyatt, Professor of Anthropology
- Explore the Roar - Campus Open House for Transfer and Emerging Sophomores
Project description:
This activity provides an opportunity for sophomores and transfer students to visit campus in late summer prior to the start of the fall semester. These students would not have had the opportunity for such a visit when they began as new students last fall due to covid. This open house-type event allows students the ability to navigate their way around campus, visit with campus offices, interact with academic schools, services and programs, engage with current students and learn about clubs and organizations. This will take place all around campus.
Date: August 13, 2021
Project members:
- Andrea Engler, Senior Executive Director, Student Transition and Support
- Mandy Porter, Student Success and Outreach Coordinator
- University Library Welcome Back Day
Project description:
On August 13, University Library will welcome back its employees to the building. The day starts with breakfast, distribution of welcome-back bags, and tables for book and garden produce exchanges. Our student workers will be helping employees return and set up their computer equipment in their offices. Additionally, there are opportunities for employees to volunteer for shifts to return our chairs, tables, and signage back to pre-COVID set-ups. The afternoon will include lunches for University Library employees, outdoor yard games, and unit meetings.
Date: August 13, 2021
Project member:
- Alicia Anino, Assistant to the Dean
- School of Nursing Welcome Week
Project description:
The School of Nursing Welcome Week will consist of a variety of different events/activities aimed to build community between students, faculty, and staff, and introduce/reintroduce students to the building. There will be an IUSON scavenger hunt to help students learn the building, resources, and meet faculty/staff. Student who complete the scavenger hunt will receive IUSON swag and be entered into a drawing for a School of Nursing swag basket. Throughout the week, there will be daily lunch time opportunities for free snacks/treats/coffee.
Date: August 23 through August 27, 2021
Project members:
- Chandra Dyson, Assistant Dean of Student Services, School of Nursing
- Jen Remick, Interim Assistant Dean of Pre-Licensure Programs, Lecturer, School of Nursing
- Ready O’Neill: Connect/Engage/Excel
Project description:
The O’Neill School will welcome students with a month of scheduled formal events, informal and light-hearted encounters, and focused messaging designed to connect students to others, encourage engagement with the IUPUI and Indianapolis communities and prepare them to excel in the classroom. Each week is dedicated to a single theme. Week one welcomes students, particularly new students and those who are coming to campus after spending their first college year remotely. Week two explores ways that students can develop belonging in a diverse and inclusive community of peers. Week three introduces students to opportunities to engage in both the school and the city. Week four focuses developing an academic mindset and habits leading to academic success.
Date: Multiple Beginning Augugust 24-31
Project member:
- Suzann Lupton, Assistant Dean of Student Services, O’Neill School
- Welcome Back, Earth Sciences!
Project description:
We propose a 2-day welcome back event for freshman and sophomore Earth Science students. On Tuesday and Wednesday of the first week of classes, we will provide an eat-and-greet breakfast and give out Earth Sciences swag to “new” students. Then, students will be able to participate in tours of our classrooms, labs, and student spaces, led by upper-level Earth Science students, and with participation by our faculty and graduate students.
Date: August 24 and 25, 2021
Project members:
- Kathy Licht, Professor and Department Chair, Earth Sciences
- Jennifer Nelson, Undergraduate Academic Advisor and Senior Lecturer, Department of Earth Sciences
- Take Me Out to the Ballgame Welcome for Earth Sciences Graduate Students
Project description:
To build a cohesive cohort of graduate students, we propose attending an Indianapolis Indians baseball game at Victory Field during the first week of classes with all of our current and incoming graduate students. Earth Sciences graduate students, faculty, and staff would each receive a ticket to the game and a food voucher for a meal and/or snacks.
Date: August 27, 2021
Project members:
- Kathy Licht, Professor and Department Chair, Earth Sciences
- Cathy Chouinard, Assistant to the Chair, Earth Sciences
- Sophomore Success
Project description:
The Sophomore Success program will work to intentionally support and engage incoming “pandemic sophomores," second year students who did not get a traditional first-year experience due to the COVID-19 pandemic and will essentially have a first-year experience when we return to campus. This program will seek to help students adapt, persist, and feel a sense of welcoming and belonging at IUPUC.
Date: August 25, 2021 and other dates
Project members:
- Joan Poulsen, Associate Professor, Psychology, IUPUC
- Bailey Moss, Assistant Director of Student Affairs, IUPUC
- IU Fort Wayne Mascot Reveal
Project description:
Plans are underway to welcome the IU Fort Wayne community back to campus with the unveiling of IU Fort Wayne’s new mascot. This will be a brief program to announce the final decision, and unveil the new logo created in connection with IU Studios. Along with this rollout, students and campus community members will also be given promotional items to celebrate the new mascot.
Date: August 26, 202
Project members:
- Jake Huffman, Assistant Director of Student Success, Engagement and Retention, IUFW
- Frances Brooks, Director of Development and Community Engagement, IUFW
- Jaguar Leadership Network Retention Initiative
Project description:
The Jaguar Leadership Network (JLN), an exciting new retention initiative, was to be implemented last fall when the pandemic pushed the program online. Although still successful, we did not see a full realization of the program’s goals for our 100+ student scholars. With the addition of a second cohort and a return to campus, the Institute for Engaged Learning plans to support the engagement of the JLN scholars through face-to-face programming.
Date: August 27, 2021 start, with additional events in September, October, November, and January
Project members:
- Lorrie Brown, Director of Student and Staff Engagement, Center for Service & Learning
- Kimberly Cozzi, Admissions Counselor, Fairbanks School of Public Health
- IU Fort Wayne Student Success Coaches/Peer Mentors Programming Launch
Project description:
Designed to create a strong atmosphere of student success, IU Fort Wayne (IUFW) plans to launch a peer-to-peer student mentor program in 2021-2022. In its inaugural year, this program creates an opportunity for students to connect with mentor undergraduates who have experienced similar paths academically and have been successful. Select students from each academic program (ideally 1-3 per each of IUFW’s academic units) will be hired as Student Success Coaches to help mentor students in the pre-program levels.
Date: August 2021 launch
Project members:
- Jake Huffman, Assistant Director of Student Success, Engagement and Retention, IUFW
- Frances Brooks, Director of Development and Community Engagement, IUFW
- IU School of Liberal Arts 50th Anniversary Community Kickoff
Project description:
The School of Liberal Arts is kicking off its 50th Anniversary during the 2021-2022 academic year. We plan hold an on-campus kickoff event on Wednesday, September 8th in Taylor Courtyard. During this event, we will take a liberal arts community photo, distribute commemorative 50th anniversary t-shirts, sign the 50th Anniversary Banner, collect liberal arts trivia and time capsule ideas, and have popcorn as a treat!
Date: September 8, 2021
Project members:
- Tricia O'Neil, Associate Director for Donor and Volunteer Engagement
- Lizeth Quinones, Assistant Director of Digital Media
- Tiea Julian, Director of Student Records and Information
- Jon Greenhoe, Digital Media Production Supervisor
- Uniting Departments for Excellence
Project description:
Over the summer, the two separate departments in the School of Nursing were piloting a department structure change (downsized to one department). As there are faculty who do not know those in the other department, we would like to have this proposed activity to not only to welcome faculty/staff back to campus but also to facilitate collaborative work due to department structure change.
Date: September 13, 2021
Project member:
- Carol Shieh Interim Department Chair, Professor, Community & Health Systems, School of Nursing
- Reality Check: Educational Innovation through Extended Reality Initiative
Project description:
Collaborating units have created the Extended Reality (XR) Initiative to showcase a series of presentations, demonstrations and tours across campus to share innovative technologies with faculty, staff and students. The XR Initiative will launch with a half-day event with a mixture of presentations, faculty demonstrations, and facility tours that highlight units and resources available to faculty, staff, and students on innovative technologies followed by ongoing events for the fall 2021 semester.
Date: September 16, 2021
Project member:
- Randy Newbrough, Assistant Director IUPUI Center for Teaching and Learning
- Science Picnic
Project description:
The Science Picnic is a fall event to welcome new and returning science and pre-science students to campus and celebrate the start of the academic year. All faculty, staff and students associated with the school are invited to attend this event. Lunch is provided, individuals get to meet and interact with each other, and school and campus clubs set up tables for students to explore their options and learn about ways to get involved.
Date: September 17, 2021
Project members:
- Jane Williams, Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and Strategic Initiatives, Associate Professor of Psychology, and Director, Interdisciplinary Studies Program, School of Science
- Betsy Cooney, Associate Director of Alumni Relations & Events
- Diana Sims-Harris, Senior Student Affairs Officer and Advising Administrator
- Advancing Civic Learning and Democratic Engagement at IUPUI
Project description:
This project is designed to engage more students, faculty and staff in programs and initiatives that improve civic literacy, the set of skills, knowledge and competencies needed in order to engage effectively in civic life. These include not only understanding the voting process and political institutions, but also the ability to deliberate about public issues, and advocate and organize to advance change. This proposal has two parts: programming, events and communications; and physical enhancements to the campus to promote civic literacy.
The second element of this proposal is for physical enhancements to campus spaces to create environments for deliberation to enhance civic literacy and civic agency.
Date: September 17, 2021 launch with multiple dates
Project member:
- Jennifer Boehm, Assistant Vice Chancellor for Community Engagement
- Beating COVID Cohorts Luncheon
Project description:
An engagement lunch event with the students who were inducted into the IU School of Nursing (BSN Traditional and Accelerated tracks) from May 2020 – May 2021. The students would be invited to come and go for lunch between classes as they are able and socializing with their classmates.
Date: September 28, 2021
Project members:
- Kelsi Auker, Development Assistant, School of Nursing
- Janet McCully, Director of Development, School of Nursing
- Growing a Community of GradJags
Project description:
IUPUI graduate and professional students were significantly impacted by the COVID pandemic as well as recurring social and racial justice issues. Many graduate students shifted their course work and projects to online, disengaging from the campus community and collaborative endeavors. The IUPUI Graduate Office seeks to reengage and rebuild community among graduate and professional students by hosting a series of social, research-focused and community-based events throughout the 2021-2022 school year.
Date: October 2021 launch
Project member:
- Tabitha Hardy, Assistant Vice Chancellor for Graduate Education and Assistant Dean for Student Development and Academic Affairs
- (Re)Building Community Through Dialogue: Exploring Strategies to Enhance Diversity, Equity and Inclusion at IUPUC
Project description:
Diversity, equity and inclusion book reads, conversations and speakers.
Fall Book Read, H.McGhee’s The Sum of Us: What Racism Costs Everyone and How We Can Prosper Together
On Martin Luther King, Jr., Day, guest speaker and reception
February 2022 Book Read, Ibram X. Kendi’s, How to be an Antiracist.
The campus events will involve important conversations between book read facilitators, journaling and small group breakout sessions; and conversations between our guest speaker and audience.
Date: October 2021 through April 2022
Project members:
- Lori Montalbano, Assistant Vice Chancellor for Academic and Student Affairs/Dean of Students, Professor of Communication Studies, IUPUC
- Joan Poulsen, Associate Professor, Psychology IUPUC
- Marsha VanNahmen, Assistant Director, Center for Teaching and Learning, IUPUC
- Emily Dill , Executive Director & Associate Librarian, University Library of Columbus, IUPUC
- IU School of Nursing Random Acts of Encouragement
Project description:
We will encourage our students throughout the semester during weeks in which we know have been stressful for students in the past. We’ll provide donuts and fruit for students in each cohort on dates that coincide with the date of an exam as a pick-me-up. Students will receive a handwritten card from a faculty or staff member. Lastly, we’ll hand out candy and Hug Fruit Juice barrels with encouraging messages attached, with the heading, “Want a Hug?”
Date: October 2021 launch
Project members:
- Chandra Dyson, Assistant Dean of Student Services, School of Nursing
- Jen Remick, Interim Assistant Dean of Pre-Licensure Programs, Lecturer, School of Nursing
- Laura Walter, Academic Advisor, School of Nursing
- UPLIFT Initiative: To Unify, Inspire, and Transform Through a School of Education Student Participation, Learning and Focus Series
Project description;
Through the UPLIFT Initiative the School of Education will host a series of events aimed to unify, inspire, and inform through student, faculty, staff, community member, and alumni participation, learning, and focus series. Centered on welcoming students back to the School of Education, the UPLIFT Initiative will engage all participants through an interactive experience cultivated through intentionally structured activities aimed to entice and activate the senses while encouraging conversation, networking, and learning.
Date: October, November, and December 2021
Project member:
- Cristina Santamaria Graff, Interim Assistant Dean of Student Support and Diversity, Associate Professor
- Fast Forward: IUPUI Live Multimedia Outdoor Performance
Project description:
Students and faculty from the departments of Music & Arts Technology and Computer Information & Graphics Technology will present a full day/evening outdoor multimedia event. Encompassing active participation of over fifty students utilizing skills within their respective majors, this series of live events will run from noontime to nighttime with contributions of technology music performance ensembles, interactive community facilitations led by our music therapy faculty and majors, and large-scale visual projections by students of CIGT.
Date: October 14, 2021
Project member:
- Robin Cox, Associate Professor, Music and Arts Technology
- IU Fort Wayne Fall Fest
Project description:
Event on campus dedicated to IU Fort Wayne students, faculty, staff, and families. The proposed activity is a Parking Garage Party with entertainment, games, and food.
Date: October 21, 2021
Project member:
- Jake Huffman, Assistant Director of Student Success, Engagement and Retention, IUFW
- Educational Equity Programs Fall Festival
Project description:
The Educational Equity Programs (EEP) Fall Festival is an opportunity to provide a space for all the students within EEP programs to interact with their peers and the faculty/staff of the programs. Additionally students will be able to familiarize themselves with the various units and services within EEP. This outdoor event will include music, games, snack bags, and prizes. EEP programs will have individual tables for students to learn more about the programs and how they are connected.
Date: October 26, 2021
Project members:
- Danielle Tate McMillan, Assistant Director of Special Programs, IUPUI Multicultural Center
- Roxanne Gregg, Director, Upward Bound
- Cory Clark, Director, Diversity Enrichment and Achievement Program
- Alina Zayas, Student Success Manager, Upperclassmen and Transfer Students, University College
- Herron Wearable Art Show
Project description:
The Herron School of Art and Design's student-run Sculpture Club hosts the annual Wearable Art Show, which brings together the Herron community from all program areas, including staff, faculty, students, and alumni, to promote public reception of student work. This one-night event includes a creative, fashion-forward runway show showcasing student creations, as well as exhibitions and performances of student work, such as sculptures and interactive video art. Visitors to Eskenazi Fine Arts Center can also purchase ceramic wares and small works created by Herron artists while supporting student clubs during the event.
Date: October 28, 2021
Project members:
- Amy Hollrah, External Affairs and Communication Specialist
- Eric Nordgulen, Professor of Sculpture
- Emily Yurkevicz, Faculty Teaching Fellow, Sculpture
- IU McKinney Mug Mondays
Project description:
IU McKinney Mug Monday supports community and belonging among the members of the law school community by providing an informal opportunity to engage with each other. While students stop by the event as they move to and from classes, staff and faculty will be encouraged to attend and to interact, not only with the students, but with each other.
Date: November 15, 2021 launch with additional events in January 2022
Project members:
- Patricia Kinney, Assistant Dean of Diversity & Inclusion
- Chasity Thompson, Assistant Dean for Student Affairs and Adjunct Professor
- Willow King-Locke, Assistant Dean for the Office of Professional Development
- Miki Hamstra, Assistant Dean of Graduate Programs
- Finals Week Coffee Bar
Project description:
University Library has a tradition of extending our opening hours and serving coffee, tea, hot chocolate, and snacks to eager students studying in the library late nights during finals week. After cancelling the event since Spring 2020, we are excited to bring it back for the Fall 2021 academic year. As our campus works to rebuild community, we want to make this event even bigger than before by offering more refreshments, therapy dogs, and de-stress activities including puzzles, Lego sets, coloring pages, and button making.
Date: December 5 and 9, 2021
Project Member:
- Willie Miller, Associate Dean for Communication and Technology
