By Steven Krolak (NEW ALBANY, Ind.)– IU Southeast has received a $325,000 grant from the Indiana Commission for Higher Education (CHE) for Growing Tomorrow’s STEM Teachers (GTST) for 2021-2023. The grant will allow the program to offer, for the first time, full-time tuition and fees to undergraduate students to become science and mathematics teachers in Indiana. Since …
FULL STORYBy Steven Krolak (NEW ALBANY, Ind.)–The second annual Southern Indiana Regional School Counseling Conference drew over 70 practitioners from across the region to IU Southeast for an exchange of ideas, experiences and best practices. Top-shelf speakers invited discussion on topics ranging from classroom management to public policy, and from career readiness to mental health, providing …
FULL STORYBy Steven Krolak (NEW ALBANY, Ind.)–Juliana Urtubey, recognized as National Teacher of the Year (NTOY), delivered an impassioned keynote via Zoom to School of Education students and faculty, in an event sponsored by the school, New Neighbors Education Center, and the Campus Activities Board. Urtubey teaches at Kermit R. Booker, Sr. Innovative Elementary School in …
FULL STORYBy Steven Krolak (NEW ALBANY, Ind.)–The IU Southeast biology program has received a grant from the IU Women’s Philanthropy Leadership Council to support its initiative, “Science is for Everyone: Broadening Access to Undergraduate Research.” This innovative project enables introductory biology undergraduates to participate in a year-long, in-class, authentic research project to identify and characterize novel …
FULL STORYBy Steven Krolak (NEW ALBANY, Ind.)–Lisa Wise ’20 has become the first IU Southeast student to earn certification as a Registered Health Information Administrator (RHIA) from the American Health Information Management Association (AHIMA). “It is an absolutely wonderful feeling,” said Wise, currently a health information management supervisor at a local behavioral health facility. The certification …
FULL STORYBy Steven Krolak (NEW ALBANY, Ind.)–IU Southeast’s health information management (HIM) program has earned initial accreditation from the Commission on Accreditation for Health Informatics and Information Management Education (CAHIIM). With nearly a century of developing record-keeping best practices in its DNA, CAHIIM accredits degree programs in health informatics and health information management. “CAHIIM accreditation is …
FULL STORYBy Steven Krolak (NEW ALBANY, Ind.)—Each year, the First Year Seminar (FYS) introduces freshmen Grenadiers to the building blocks of academic research. Information literacy is among the required General Education learning outcomes, embedded in courses COAS-S104 FYS and COAS-S154 Pathways. At IU Southeast, the information literacy component is taught by faculty librarians, led by Maria …
FULL STORYBy Steven Krolak (NEW ALBANY, Ind.)–The Ronald Barr Gallery reopens next week with an exhibition over two years in the making, give or take. Aptly titled “Emergence,” the show presents selected works by fifteen 2020 and 2021 Studio Arts BFA alumni who were prevented from exhibiting their thesis art due to pandemic-related health and safety …
FULL STORYBy Steven Krolak (NEW ALBANY, Ind.)–The IU Southeast School of Business chapter of Beta Gamma Sigma (BGS) has earned “honors” status. It’s kind of a big deal. “Beta Gamma Sigma is the premiere business honorary society in the world,” said David Eplion, dean of the School of Business. “Achieving honors status means that we have …
FULL STORYBy Steven Krolak (NEW ALBANY, Ind.)–Dr. Donna Albrecht, associate professor of education, has been named the new Director of Graduate Programs in the School of Education. She succeeds Dr. Lisa Hoffman, who has assumed the role of IU Southeast’s Dean of Research and Graduate Programs. Albrecht, most recently recognized as Faculty Innovator of the Year …
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