By Steven Krolak (NEW ALBANY, Ind.)–Want to rock the CPA exam? Come to IU Southeast. That’s the takeaway from the 2020 first-time pass rates among colleges and universities. With a pass rate of 80 percent, IU Southeast is even with IU Bloomington at the top of all IU campuses. “The first-time pass rate nationwide is …
FULL STORYBy Steven Krolak (NEW ALBANY, Ind.)–Ebony Stewart, an international touring poet and performance artist, will speak to an IU Southeast audience via Zoom on Thursday, Feb. 4, from 12:15 to 1:30 p.m. Stewart is known for work that speaks to the black experience, emphasizing gender, sexuality, womanhood and race. She hopes it will “be relatable, …
FULL STORYBy Steven Krolak (NEW ALBANY, Ind.)–Phil Thomas, longtime director of the IU Southeast concert band and adjunct instructor in the music education program, has been named Middle School Educator of the Year by the Indiana Music Educator’s Association (IMEA). Aside from his duties at IU Southeast, Thomas teaches band at Highland Hills Middle School, and …
FULL STORYBy Steven Krolak (NEW ALBANY, Ind.)–Sandra Johnson remembers playing teacher as a child, in a classroom of make-believe students. “Gaining knowledge, and sharing it, were my ultimate goals,” she said. Today, as senior lecturer in the areas of allied health and health information management, she prepares real live students to enter a career that didn’t …
FULL STORYBy Steven Krolak (NEW ALBANY, Ind.)—The Office of Human Resources has honored the contributions of faculty and staff over the past year. This year’s honorees comprise a group of colleagues ranging in age from 34 to 71 who have devoted a total of 890 years of service to the university in administrative, teaching, maintenance, advising …
FULL STORYBy Steven Krolak (NEW ALBANY, Ind.)–The show must go on. Those words cannot be attributed to Shakespeare. But they encompass the persistence and passion that have combined to bring his tragedy of Romeo and Juliet to the stage at IU Southeast, in this most star-crossed of years. In this production, Daniel Hill has re-crafted Shakespeare’s …
FULL STORYBy Steven Krolak (NEW ALBANY, Ind.)—Dr. Doyin Coker-Kolo, professor of education, has been awarded a Carnegie African Diaspora Fellowship. As part of the fellowship, Coker-Kolo will travel to Uganda to work with faculty and students at the College of Education and External Studies at Makerere University. The purpose of the fellowship is to engage in …
FULL STORYBy Steven Krolak (NEW ALBANY, Ind.)–STEM education has a bright future in Indiana. That is the inescapable impression from the Growing Tomorrow’s STEM Educators Today (GTST) Virtual Fall Teacher Institute convened by IU Southeast’s School of Education. The event, co-chaired by Drs. Alan Zollman, Sumreen Asim and Lisa Hoffman, all of the School of Education, …
FULL STORYBy Steven Krolak (NEW ALBANY, Ind.)–Eight IU Southeast students brought cutting-edge projects to the 26th IU Undergraduate Research Conference. The students and their topics were: Amanda Sue Brock Mentorship on a Mission John Clere New Photogrammetry Techniques and Their Scientific, Archival, and Academic Applications Robin Frederick Misconceptions of Sustainability in Higher Education: A Case Study …
FULL STORYBy Steven Krolak (NEW ALBANY, Ind.)–Sometimes your calling is right where you thought it would be. Sometimes you stumble across it by accident. Sometimes it arises out of the ashes of what you thought your calling was. That last scenario describes the way it was for Steffany Comfort Maher, assistant professor of English education. Maher …
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