Replacing “Remote” with a Rekindling of Interpersonal Skills Through Reading, Writing and Peopling After a steady course of social distancing and remote instruction, incoming and returning IU Southeast students arrived back to school trying to relearn skills and behaviors that they had little opportunity to practice during the pandemic. Recognizing this dilemma, IU Southeast Honors …
FULL STORYCollaborative Rubrics and Self-Evaluations are at the Heart of Students’ Academic Growth For nearly two decades, IU Southeast has hosted an annual student conference that highlights the best of students’ work from over 50 majors across campus. The chance to present their academic work to the public through projects, papers and posters provides invaluable …
FULL STORYThe Chancellor’s Medallion Scholarship recognizes academic excellence, leadership, and perseverance. It is one of the most coveted scholarships available at IU Southeast. Each year, four recipients of junior standing, with a minimum of 60 credit hours, are selected by the Chancellor of IU Southeast. Criteria for selection include: Minimum of 60 credit hours beginning Fall …
FULL STORYIU Southeast faculty seemingly swept the 2021 Faculty Academy on Excellence in Teaching (FACET) awards. The awards recognize faculty throughout Indiana University who bring passion, innovation, and creativity to the classroom to promote student success. It also helps FACET share and disseminate best practices in teaching for the benefit of the entire IU community. The …
FULL STORYBy Steven Krolak (NEW ALBANY, Ind.)–It’s 8 a.m. It’s ENG 131. Reading, Writing and Inquiry I. It’s hard enough to be human at this hour, to say nothing of trying to focus on the subjunctive mood. Susan Popham understands this. As associate professor of English (composition) and writing concentration coordinator teaching this foundational course, she …
FULL STORYBy Steven Krolak (NEW ALBANY, Ind.)–Not many courses conclude with the students voting to exile the instructor. Not many instructors would be happy about it. But Jeremy Wells, associate professor of English, isn’t just any instructor. Wearing a zombie mask and communicating only in grunts, Wells humbly accepted banishment at the end of his literature …
FULL STORYBy Steven Krolak Who am I? The question lurks inchoate in every classroom on campus. That is the nature of college, a place where so many people take their first big steps toward what they have chosen to be, or change direction to pursue a different path from the one they may have once plotted …
FULL STORYBy Steven Krolak (NEW ALBANY, Ind.)—Taryn Hall of Shepherdsville, Ky. (pictured) has known since the fourth grade that literature is her calling. Now the IU Southeast English major is poised to graduate with a double concentration in literature and writing, thanks in part to a scholarship honoring a professor who valued, modeled and nourished devotion …
FULL STORYBy Steven Krolak (NEW ALBANY, Ind.)—Michael Jackman, senior lecturer in writing and academic affairs diversity coordinator at IU Southeast, will read poems and prose as part of the Spalding at 21c: Voice and Vision literary series. The event takes place on Thurs., June 16 at 21c Museum Hotel in Louisville, Ky. Jackman will share the …
FULL STORYBy Steven Krolak It’s an epic song of social justice, born in struggle and swaddled in jazz. Langston Hughes, poet laureate of the Harlem Renaissance, was also on the board of directors of the Newport Jazz Festival when he wrote “Ask Your Mama: 12 Moods for Jazz.” The year was 1960, in the heat of …
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