Academic Affairs Newsletter - Message #8

When Dr. Lin Zheng was appointed a faculty fellow in the Office of International Affairs, she and Leslie Bozeman, the director of curriculum internationalization, had three goals. First, she and Bozeman wanted to improve relationships with local organizations to create international and local global learning opportunities for students. Second, they wanted to inform the IUPUI community about its schools, departments, faculty, and staff creating global learning opportunities that impact students. Finally, Zheng and Bozeman are working to enrich the integration of global learning outcomes in the domestic and international programs of the Kelley School of Business. This will create a model other schools could emulate in their own programs.

Zheng and Bozeman are well on their way toward meeting these three goals. “We are working with the Career Services Council, Internship Council, and Office of Community Engagement to identify employers and courses that offer local global learning opportunities to our students,” said Zheng. From this work, students seeking global learning will have more opportunities to grow. Also, IUPUI students will learn that local communities are eager to recruit talent capable of working effectively in a global market.

"To help facilitate the spread of that information," Zheng said, “we will be publishing a campuswide newsletter highlighting practices of global learning at the Kelley School of Business.” As the newsletter grows, Zheng and Bozeman would like to showcase the global learning opportunities in other IUPUI schools, too. This, of course, promotes communication on campus to achieve synergy and efficiency. “I have received tremendous support from administrators and faculty at Kelley,” she said. “We are currently exploring ways to incorporate a global perspective into their existing learning goals.”

There seem to be some interesting benefits faculty and students will see from Zheng and Bozeman’s work. With global learning explicitly included in course goals, faculty will have the opportunity to identify and associate learning material and assessment in individual courses with a global perspective. Students will see explicitly the purpose of exposures to global learning and integrate the experience into personal portfolio and career planning.

Indiana is becoming a much larger and vibrant global business community. IUPUI, as a major provider of graduates for Indiana, faces the challenge to educate and train students to meet the demands of these recent shifts. “I hope my work can bring the awareness to the campus and continue the work that has been done by many individuals on campus to benefit students," said Zheng. “I believe our students, with open mindsets and skills to work and live in international communities, will become high quality talents sought after by employers.”

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She has been inspiring students through her legendary stories. She has been refining the public speaking skills of IUPUI students for nearly a half century -- this is Moffett Craig. “Mrs. Craig’s teaching style is tough. She expects the best and nothing less. In the beginning of the semester, she appears stern and cold at times, very matronly,” said, Jon Sheldon, an associate faculty member in the Department of Communication Studies and former Craig student, “By the end, on the last day, all you want is for her class to continue on another semester.”

Sheldon’s story of Craig is one of humor and horror. When he was chosen to compete in the IUPUI Speech Night, an intracollegiate competition among Introduction to Speech students, Craig and the class invested a lot of time and energy to help him succeed. “I was very much motivated to win,” Sheldon said. That’s when his story of Craig took a turn. Here it is in his own words.

My motivation to win was for a slightly different reason. I was afraid Mrs. Craig would kill me and dispose of my body in another person’s casket, if I were to lose. A couple days before Speech Night Semi-Finals, I was driving around Indianapolis and got lost and I came across “Craig’s Funeral Home.”  On the first day of class, Mrs. Craig told us that she was a business owner but that she would not tell us what she did until the last day of class.  Needless to say, this became a constant fixation of the class and we would regularly speculate. Once I found the funeral home, I thought I figured it out, then I began to panic.   

Sheldon remembered the fear of death overtook him through semi-finals and finals of the Speech Night competition. “This persistent, irrational fear loomed,” he said, “I was very motivated to win, not because of the great help Mrs. Craig and my classmates gave, but because I did not want to die.”

It wasn’t until recently – Sheldon teaches Introduction to Speech for the IUPUI Department of Communication Studies – that he shared this story with Craig. “In a very Mrs. Craig fashion, she started laughing and gave me a big hug,” he said.

Aside from her teaching, Craig contributed to the R110 custom textbook, and was a prior R110 course director. She is a senior associate faculty member in the School of Liberal Arts and a Gateway Teaching Award Winner as well as being named a School of Liberal Arts Distinguished Associate Faculty. "That's a lot to add to 40 years of teaching at IUPUI," said Steven Overbey, a senior associate faculty and Craig's colleague in the School of Liberal Arts.

Thank you, Moffett, for your dedicated service!

EDGE brings together academic advisors, career service professionals and faculty across Indiana University for a day of professional development designed to encourage integrated career and academic planning. The all-day conference will be held on the IUPUI campus Wednesday, May 24, 2017, from 9:30 a.m. to 3 p.m.

This year you can learn why college seniors drop out before they graduate. Or, you may want to learn why it's okay to give students time and space to grieve over not being admitted to a competitive undergraduate or graduate degree program. Solving their problems immediately may not be the best course of action. In one of this year's sessions, When NOT to Parallel Plan: Creating a Safe Space for Grieving Students, attendees will be introduced to four tools adapted from an organization devoted to childhood grief which can aid advisors in what to do – and what not to do – in a 30 minute appointment.

By the way, that is only a sample of what's in store for EDGE attendees this year. Have you registered?

If you haven’t, registration is open.

This year’s conference keynote speaker is Dr. Farouk Dey, associate vice provost of student affairs and dean of career education at Stanford University. Author of several articles and book chapters, Dr. Dey has served as a consultant at many organizations and universities, faculty at several institutes, and keynote speaker at many conferences in the U.S. and around the world.

At the heart of the EDGE initiative is a set of learning modules that have been developed by and for advisors, faculty, and career services staff to embed early and often into their work. After the conference is over, you may want to preview the EDGE Modules. Or, if you want to pilot the EDGE Modules to test drive in your class, that’s an option too. 

LEAP IN is our chosen name for the emerging statewide network of faculty that was catalyzed through the national Faculty Collaborative project coordinated by the Association for American Colleges and Universities (AAC&U). In 2013, Indiana became a “LEAP state,” born through a resolution passed by the Indiana Commission for Higher Education and expressly dedicated to principles espoused in AAC&U’s Liberal Education and America’s Promise (LEAP) initiative.

There were significant goals behind this unanimous endorsement – Indiana expressed its commitment to collaborating with other states to improve the quality of postsecondary education and to scale innovative models that enhance teaching and learning. An additional goal was to bring together state-level and campus-level initiatives in an integrated way in order to amplify their impact on student learning. Our network was launched 18 months later, when few faculty were aware of either the LEAP states initiative or of the Commission’s resolution to join it.

Our fledgling network initially was shepherded into existence in January 2014 by a small band of committed faculty leaders from across Indiana University, and then strengthened through the energy and enthusiasm of seven faculty fellows selected from across a range of public institutions. A cross-institutional steering committee was formed based on recommendations from chief academic officers, and a needs analysis helped to shape initial priorities. Kathy Johnson (IUPUI) served as the state liaison to AAC&U, and both TJ Rivard (IU East) and Bill McKinney (IU Regional and Academic Affairs) have led the Indiana “hub.” IUPUI faculty members Keith Anliker, Elaine Coonie, and Beth Goering have served as LEAP Fellows and Jennifer Lee, Margie Ferguson, and David Malik have served on its statewide steering committee.

Now, three years later, LEAP IN includes a growing network of enthusiastic collaborators from both public and private institutions who are connected through a listserv and Twitter account (@LEAPIndiana). We have successfully held several conferences and regional workshops and will hold a standing breakfast meeting at the Indianapolis Assessment Institute each fall. We have models in other states to learn from, and we are intent on connecting LEAP IN to existing networks such as IU’s Faculty Academy on Excellence in Teaching, or FACET.

Earlier in April, more than 50 IUPUI faculty participated in our second statewide LEAP IN conference at Ivy Tech’s Central Indiana campus, and were engaged in a workshop on Transparent Teaching and Learning” facilitated by Dr. Mary-Ann Winkelmes from University of Nevada, Las Vegas (copies of materials shared at this workshop are available on the LEAP IN website). LEAP IN is open to ALL faculty at all Indiana campuses and we encourage you to contact Kathy Johnson if you’re interested in getting involved.

On Tuesday, April 11, 2017, the campus gathered to celebrate 20 years of advocacy and support for gender equity on the campus and in our community with the IUPUI Office for Women. To see a list of women honored at the event, click here.

The featured speaker for this year’s event was Stephanie Mathews O’Keefe, the chief executive officer of the International Women’s Forum and the Leadership Foundation. 

Other notable woman from Indiana were honored with the Pacesetter award. These included: Tamika Catchings, Olympic Gold-medalist and Indiana Fever player (retired); Betty Cockrum, CEO, Planned Parenthood of Indiana and Kentucky; Miriam Acevedo Davis, President, La Plaza; Mari Evans, Poet and community activist (posthumous); and Rabbi Sandy Sasso, Beth-El Zedeck congregation and Women4Change.

Since being established in the fall of 1996, the IUPUI Office for Women has been a leader in advocating for diversity and equity on campus and building an inclusive campus climate where all can succeed. Programs and activities of the IUPUI Office for Women directly address the call for a welcoming campus and the goals of the campus strategic plan to promote an inclusive campus climate, develop faculty and staff, and promote student success.

The Office of Academic Affairs welcomes Gina Sánchez Gibau as the associate vice chancellor for faculty diversity and inclusion for IUPUI.

Gibau comes from the School of Liberal Arts, where she led student affairs and managed recruitment, orientation and retention. To help faculty get to know her better, we created a short video.

Dr. Sánchez Gibau came to IUPUI after earning her Ph.D. in anthropology from the University of Texas at Austin. Gibau earned her Bachelor of Arts in Latin American and Caribbean Affairs from Rollins College in 1991 and a Master of Arts in Latin American Studies from the University of California, Los Angeles in 1993.

Gina Sánchez Gibau can be reached at ude[dot]iupui[at]zehcnasg.

Open Office Hours with the EVC

Friday, May 19, 2017

10 a.m. – 11:30 a.m. – University Hall 5022

What’s on your mind? Meet with EVC/CAO Kathy Johnson during open office hours. IUPUI faculty can drop in with no appointment to share thoughts, ideas, and concerns. Kathy brings snacks! This is the final date of the academic year. Office hours will resume in August. Please come back and visit us then!

• FACET Information session, lunch and conversation. Monday, May 1, 2017 from noon – 1:15 p.m. The event will be held in the Psychology Department Conference Room 124 in the Science Building.
• IUPUI Faculty Council Meeting: Tuesday, May 2, 3 p.m. - 5 p.m., IUPUI Campus Center 450A.
• Faculty Retiring from IUPUI: We honor you! See who’s retiring here.