For the first time at IUPUI, students were welcomed to their spring semester with opportunities to have fun, connect with campus resources and get involved. The first week of classes brought screen printed t-shirts, caricature artists, a study abroad fair, the involvement fair, meeting our Multicultural Greek Council and Cram the Coliseum. WOW culminated with a sophomore […]
We invite you to a special conversation with Edgar Villanueva, author of Decolonizing Wealth, about the nature of philanthropy and reflections on how institutions that control access to money can better serve the needs of Indigenous people and other communities of color. What if we could use wealth to heal rather than cause further harm? […]
Come to the Kurt Vonnegut Museum and Library (KVML) as they kick off their Year of Civic Engagement with a launch party on Tuesday, January 28, from 5:30 to 7 pm at the KVML, 543 Indiana Avenue. They’re thrilled to host Lasana Kazembe, an assistant professor of Urban Teacher Education and Africana Studies at IUPUI. He’ll talk about building […]
New year, new grant opportunities for students. Isn’t that how the saying goes? The Center for Service and Learning at IUPUI has been diligently working to find a new, creative way to support students in taking action on issues they care about. And it has found a solution — the Jag Action Grant. We sat down […]
The IUPUI Herron School of Art and Design’s first exhibitions of 2020 open Jan. 15 with a reception from 5:30 to 8 p.m., kicking off another chapter of visual art encounters on the IUPUI campus. The school’s galleries will present two posthumous displays of works by Ronald Bladen(1918-1988), a pivotal figure of postwar American art, and […]
A national education law called the Every Student Succeeds Act, or ESSA, passed in 2015 to ensure that states provide all children with equal access to a high-quality public education. States must hold schools accountable for student outcomes and identify schools to receive improvement services if their students, including historically underserved groups, struggle to succeed. […]
Every three months, we share a roundup of the latest updates from the Herron community. Here, we’ve captured the highlights, including exhibitions, publications, career moves, accomplishments, and accolades from our students, alumni, and faculty that took place between October and December 2019. Associate Professor Anila Agha‘s latest solo exhibition, “Between Light and Shadow,” opened Oct. 19, 2019, […]
Anita Morgan presents: Gaining “The Power to Protect Herself”: Sixty-Nine Years of the Woman Suffrage Movement in Indiana. Growing from a small group of Quaker abolitionists to a diverse organization of at least 10,000 members, the woman suffrage movement in Indiana persistently lobbied for the vote for sixty-nine years. Advancing from petitions presented to the […]
