Indiana University East Academy for Cultivating Talent completed its first program “Carry It Forward: Creating Networks and Pipelines for Women Leaders,” on May 15. The program focused on creating pipelines for women to leadership positions in business and civic engagement and work with professional women in mid-level or senior-level positions who are poised to make a difference in their organization and community.

Fredricka Joyner, associate professor of business administration and organization behavior, organized the Academy for Cultivating Talent (ACT). She said the 22 participants who recently graduated from ACT came from diverse organizations throughout the region.

“During the year, each participant identified personally-important activities and issues and developed plans to engage in making a difference. These individuals will use the skills developed to make a difference in their organizations and communities for years to come,” Joyner said.

“I have really enjoyed participating in the ACT Program over the past 10 months. I have gained a deeper insight into my own leadership skills and feel the program has made a strong, positive impact in my confidence level and decision making. I have built a strong network of new friends in the other participants that I’m sure will only grow over time,” said Kim Poinsett, assistant vice president for Community Relations at First Bank Richmond.

Participants in the Academy for Cultivating Talent were:

• Sharon Brandley: Palladium-Item
• Pam Cawood: Reid Physician Associates
• Peggy Cenova: Indiana Small Business Development Corporation
• Renee Doty: Economic Development Corporation of Wayne County
• Sarah Gladding: Belden
• Beth Harrick: Girls, Inc.
• Norene Groth: Wayne Bank & Trust Co.
• Stephanie Hays-Mussoni: Indiana University East
• Bridget Hazelbaker: Richmond Community Schools
• Leah Heady: Reid Hospital & Health Care Services
• Rachel Hughes: Wayne County Foundation
• Cathy Jarvis: Reid Physician Associates
• Holly Lemar: Reid Hospital & Health Care Services
• Tracey Lickfelt: Centerstone
• Karole Passmore: First Bank Richmond
• Elvinet Piard: Indiana University East
• Julie Pickett-Hall: Doxpop
• Kim Poinsett: First Bank Richmond
• Darla Randall: Indiana University East
• Meagan Terlep: Centerstone
• Margaret Thomas Evans: Indiana University East
• Randi Whitesel: Reid Hospital & Health Care Services

The program was established in March 2012 after receiving a grant by the Indiana University Women’s Philanthropy Council. The academy is a part of the Center for Leadership Development under the School of Business and Economics. The program year is underwritten by a grant from the IU Women’s Philanthropy Council with additional support from the IU East School of Business and Economics.

Each year the academy’s program will be tailored and customized for the group. In the future, the academy will focus on other groups including young professionals, senior leaders, small business owners or non-profit leaders.

For more information on the Academy for Cultivating Talent, contact Fredricka Joyner at 765-973-8412 or fjoyner@iue.edu.

Indiana University East students who take 12 or more credit hours and complete the semester with a grade point average of 4.0 on a 4.0 scale are named to the Indiana University East Chancellor’s List. The following is the spring 2013 Chancellor’s List. The list is sorted by the student’s listed hometown.
FLORIDA
Haines City
Stacey Turner

Jacksonville    
Jennifer Sroka

GEORGIA
Flowery Branch  
Adriana Gonzalez

ILLINOIS
Monticello
Kristie Montgomery

INDIANA
Bedford
Lincoln Merchant

Boonville
Gina Pardue

Brookville
Beth Wagers and Katherine Wooten

Brownsburg
Rachel Thomson

Carthage
Lori Stephens

Cambridge City
Christopher Halberstadt

Centerville
Hillary Chaney

Columbia City
Lauren Bower

Columbus
Patrick Hummer

Connersville
Evan Barnes, Anthony Breitenbach, Katie Fowler, Erin Futrell, Heidi Kuntz, Elizabeth Reed and Jessica Schuck

Culver
Aaron Walaitis

Economy
John Wilson

Floyds Knobs
Laura Weaver

Franklin 
Racheal Brown

Fortville
Anne Fritz

Fountain City
Veronica Maghielse

Greenfield
Abby Hardin

Greens Fork
Jeremy Eddy

Hagerstown
Monica Lee, Brooke Matson and Jennifer Pinon

Hanover
William Butters

Indianapolis
Dean Demaree

Jasonville
Elizabeth Luper

Laurel
Kayleen Madden

Lawrenceburg
Ryan Hinthorne and Kaylen Scheffel

Liberty
Michelle Brenegan and Carina Miller

Lynn
Hannah Beckley, Miranda Lutz, Rachel Phenis and Joshua Wert

Madison
Emily Barnes and Heather Minor

Magnet
Catherine Ward

McCordsville
Jason Jackson

Mishawaka
Annita Iseminger

Monterey
Joshua Galloway

Moores Hill
Philip Hyde

Morris
Mark Stenger

Muncie
Carly Manis and Kristin Waechter

New Castle
Matthew Davis

Odon
Chelsey Burris

Richmond
Katlyn Ballard, Danny Capps, Richard Carrera, Angela Craig, Hannah Dalbey, Charles Daugherty, Dylan Doner, Kaylyn Flora, Lee Goeke, Clayton Haisley, Anna Harrison, Melissa Horn, Alexis Hurd, Lauren Jellison, Erika Lemar, Julie Liddell, Adria Morken, Hannah Napier, Emily O’Brien, Sarah Phillips, Jason Ray, Kaly Reichter, Kelli Shepherd, Samantha Stevens, Kasey Stolle, David Turner, Janice Vosmeier, Whitney Wesley and Dara Zuckerman

Ridgeville
Victoria Goodhew

Sunman
Eli Hudnall and Krista Hudnall

Tell City
Sonja Bittner

Union City
Rhonda Fields

Union Mills
Elizabeth Scarborough

Valparaiso
Daniel Respess

Versailles
Casey Payne

Vevay
Alyssa Leap and Shelby Lucas

Warsaw
April Fitterling and Jeremiah Hidlebaugh

West College Corner
Ryan Bell

West Harrison
Pamela Bartholomew

Winchester
Megan Culy, Michaela Hirschy and Andrea Newman

KENTUCKY
Burlington
Martha Langsfeld

Florence
Brian Ard

Louisville
John Hutchinson

MICHIGAN
Berrien Springs
Carolyn Hearn

MINNESOTA
Shakopee
John Odusch

OHIO
Arcanum
Shelby Anderson and Daniel Printz

Bradford
Ashlee Brown

Camden
James Lutz

Eaton
Brooke Hartwig, Alexa Joyce, Jesse Keller, Mariah Marshall, McKenna Marshall, Kelsey Meyer, Dustin Nutt, Kaitlyn Pugh and Eva Thompson

Greenville
Jenilee Braun, Kelsey Wolfe and Kathryn Yohey

Lewisburg
Adam Obringer

Miamisburg
Carmen Hawley

Versailles
Kiersten Finlay

West Alexandria
Kimberly Thuma

Union City
Mallory Livingston

Indiana University East students who take 12 or more credit hours and complete the semester with a grade point average of 3.5 or above on a 4.0 scale are named to the Indiana University East Dean’s List. The following is the spring 2013 Dean’s List. The list is sorted by the student’s listed hometown.

CANADA
Winlaw
Kim Eggert

CALIFORNIA
San Diego
Brittany Bischoff

Anaheim
Christopher Miesner

COLORADO
Colorado Springs
Ashley Gill

IDAHO
Moscow
Derek Leiser

ILLINOIS
Lemont
Mary Francisco

Richton Park
Lashawn Johnson

Naperville
Kristyn Elsner

Chicago
Allison Gilbert

KENTUCKY
Burlington
Gary Langsfeld

Cold Spring
Tyler Fangman

Covington
Dustin Sinclair

Sanders
Brian Campbell

INDIANA
Albany
Kylee Buckmaster, Heather Gold and Olivia Markley

Anderson
Nolan Yates

Aurora
Skyeler Whiteford

Bargersville
Jessica Wright

Batesville
Benjamin Somers

Bloomington
Susan Forgas and Justin Tabor

Brookville
Ashley Boggs, Luther Foley, Michael Frank, Amanda Godsey, Teresa Huelseman, Kaitlin McGill, Denise Miles, Kelly Medina Morales, Brooke Morford, Kevin Moster and Samantha Roberts

Brownsville
Sierra Bass

Cambridge City
Danielle Peckinpaugh, Jessica Poore, Benjamin Reece, Mitchell Sherwood, Ashley Strait, Seth Strait and Kristen Wilkinson

Carthage
Bridget Hampton, Dillon Hilderbrand and Chasity Kindler

Centerville
Lynn Baldwin, Leslie Bell, Anthony Brewer, Mikenzie Drew, Morgan Godsey, Miranda Henry, Tyler Higgs, Cheltsi Hinners, Layne Husted, Chad Lewis, Lelia Pipenger, Rebecca Schuck, Misty Stroh, Autida Tran and Cynthia Vermilion

Connersville
Jennifer Arnold, Leslie Bailey, Jessica Best, Kurtis Bonner, Jessica Burton, Emily Butsch, Nicolette Davis, Maryann Deatline, Chase Eversole, Abigail Fuller, Andrew Fuller, Makenzie Gettinger, Ashley Hall, Christopher Jordan, Brianna Keener, Taylor Marcum, Shelia Martin, Sarah Mitchell, Tamara Naylor, Chelsy Nichols, Kelly Parker, Kristina Precht, Adam Reisert, Louella Schoenfeld, Devin Short, Ashtyn Siefert, Toni Stephen, Ronnie Swango, Felicia Sweney and Gabriel Ward

Crawfordsville
Madison Funk

Decatur
Allison Gutierrez

Deputy
Kari Arrowood, Kenneth Austin and Erin Malcomb

Dublin
Ashton Adams, Thomas Bonwell, Ariel Calvert, Chelsea Gabbard and Jesse Whitton

Eaton
Aaron McCullough

Elwood
Shelby Stokes

Evansville
Brianna Nickell

Farmland
Cameron Cox

Ferdinand
Keith Fromme

Floyds Knobs
Cody Banet

Fort Wayne
Christine Buchholz and Jeffrey Kovach

Fountain City
Brandon Brockman, Amanda Hammock, Cody Harris, Tyler Johnson, Steven Nester, Hope Peer and Natalie Stephen

Franklin
Teri Simmons

Gas City
Joshua Cook

Glenwood
Kodi Smith

Greendale
Sarah Bills, Mallory Holdcraft and Gregory Weldon

Greenfield
Jonathan Gibbs, Christa Ginter, Brittney Miller and Kyra Tweedy

Griffith
Tammy Sorrell

Goshen
Danielle Woodward

Guilford
Daniel Poundstone

Hagerstown
Jayme Lakes, Brandi Smith and Hannah Sutton

Hanover
Linda Novello

Hobart 
Emily Sopko

Holton
Heather Williams

Indianapolis
Matthew Bailey, Thomas Beery, Amber Engledow, Andrew Hall, Shayla Horn and Brooke Sahm

Jasper
Allison Hopf and Hans Lagenour

Kokomo
Austin Burton

Knightstown
Marc Dewitt and Benjamin Wright

Lafayette
Tiffani Jacobs-Earley, Michael Garrison, Anthony Moore and Steve Oehmen

Laurel
Hubert Branstetter, Christopher Hundley and Richard Lewis

Lawrenceburg
Misty Brumfield, Nick Budd, Anna Daily, Elizabeth Helmchen, Dennis Hibbard, Tyler Moore and Kathryn Scharff

Leesburg
David Danner

Lewisville
Licole Hunt, Sarah Jett, Olivia Riley and Carrie Wilson

Lexington
Shona Marshall

Liberty
Stephanie Beckner, Jennifer Burns, Jacob Cook, Melissa Davis, Rodney Hoppes, Megan Hughes, Kathleen Kassens and Bryanne Killion

Lynn
Lorrick Gibson, Laura Olsen, LaChelsa Ozbun and Courtney Retter

Madison
Chester Biddle and Lacey Breeden

Metamora
Kayleigh Cummins

Middletown
Jessica Knepley

Milan
Cheryl Conn and Gregory McAtee

Mishawaka
Rodney Iseminger

Modoc
Autumn Roberts

Mooreland
Rebecca Dishman

Moores Hill
Michelle Helfrich, Daiane Romero-Hernandez and Lori Kervin

Muncie
Christopher Logan, Jennifer Manes, Earl Shreves and Christopher Strickland

New Castle
Celeste Anderson, Theodore Criswell, Laura Hill, Hannah Leveridge, Jack Lynch, Amanda Mastin, Rebecca Miller, Lindsay Pittman and Kirstyn Shafer

New Lisbon
Jamie Melton

New Palestine
Michelle Sharp

Noblesville
Vjekoslava Lukovic and Jennifer Schlenger

Plainfield
Keith Gerhart and Danielle Murray

Portland
Kailyn Burelison, Alexis Doughty, Kylie Gardner, Andrew Houck, Bryan Irelan, Sarah Ninde, Jason Rice, Alexis Rowles and Cody Thompson

Redkey
Trisha Champ

Richmond
Jessica Atwell, Erik Baker, Kate Beard, Courtney Bowling, Alexis Brasier, Christa Brown, Nichole Bundschuh, Christine Carrera, Felicia Chagdes, Arianna Cook, Amy Cooper, William Crawford, Hannah Creech, Lauren Crump, Brittney Davis, Candice Davis, Lakia Dix, Christin Dollar, Marianne Duke, Donnie Estes, Kelly Evans, Robert Funkhouser, Jill Glidden, Kyle Hall, Sadie Harmeyer, Tiffani Henn, Stewart Homdrom, Jeramie Horn, Allison Jack, Danielle Johnson, Katherine Johnston, Rebecca Jones, William Juday, Jordan Kearney, Sean Klaine, Connor Kramer, Lindsay Kurz, James Lane, Margaret Leffel, Kendra Lester, Leslie Marker, Rachel Martinez, Kristina    Maxwell, Tristan May, Jessica Melendez, Amber Moore, Brittney Murphy, Jessica Nuss, Magen Olson, Erin Phillips, Derek Pipenger, Adam Powell, Sa’de Reece, Lyndsey Rohrer, Kraig Rose, Jennifer Sandstrom, Vincent Shendler, Carl Siders, Jugmit Singh, Megan Sparks, Julie Stingley, Tara Stuckey, Michael Teufel, Kelsi Thompson, Ann Tibbot-Rohe, Katey Tolly, Matt Tucker, Kali Wever, Brittney White, Zachary Williams, Anne Wissel, Tabbatha Woolwine, Jessica Worl and Daniel Zuckerman

Ridgeville
Hannah Sarff

Rising Sun    
Barbara Kemp, Melissa Martini and Kristin Rees

Rushville
Samantha Sasher and Morgan Williams

Shoals
Ericka Brown

Spiceland
Jacquelyn Janes

Syracuse
Andrea Banghart

Union City
Chelsy Michael and Brett Wilcox

Valparaiso
Courtney Crozier

Vevay
Greta Atwood

West Harrison
Mark Baker, Benjamin Luckhaupt, Zachary Marshall, Bridget Smith and Shaina Veeneman

Winchester
Kelsey Abernathy, Morgan Huddleston, Ashley Meinerding, Taylor Mock, Janice Shores, Tracy Smith and Joseph Thornburg

Woodburn
Trent Scherer

MASSACHUSETTS
Boston
Dana Miller

MICHIGAN
Jones
Kenneth Meteiver

MINNESOTA
Shoreview
David Leonhardt

MISSOURI
Kansas City
Sonia Barnes

NEW MEXICO
Holloman Air Force Base
Diana Crawford   

OHIO
Akron
Natalie Geller

Arcanum
Joseph Askins, Jessica Baker, Kara Beatty, Rachel Besecker, Amanda Falknor, Samantha Fenstermaker and Cody Schellhaas

Bradford
Brianna Booker and Garrett Smith

Celina
Meagan Stoker

College Corner
Jeremy Lee

Eaton
Casey Bindewald, Kari Bowman, Christopher Carr, Ashley Caudill, Dakota Childers, Emily Floyd, Mary Hake, Hope Hess, Charity Huston, Ryan Landes, Lori Lowman, Erin Montgomery, Christina Perkins, Brittany Phelps, Kelsey Rubright, Courtney Scholl, Samantha Schumacher, Clint Shepherd, Jacob Smart, Sara Sweat and Taylor Willeford

Englewood
Kelly McElroy

Greenville
Katelyn Brown, Christina Cost, Natasha Kenworthy, Lauren Kolb, Michael Kukasky, Kacey Ritz and Jordan Schlamb

Hamilton
Chelsea Schroeder

Lewisburg
Pauline Judy, Shana Lewis, Johnny Myers, Dessica Sykes and Jeffrey Weireter

Miamisburg
Phillip Bratton

New Madison
Megan Brown, Kelly King and Kyle King

New Paris
Makayla Abner, Aubrey Dunn and Ryan Maples

Twinsburg
Lindsay Shirilla

West Alexandria
Kyle Berger, Stanton Garrett and Bambi Sharrett

West Manchester
David Barger

West Milton
Justin Judd

Union City
Chanda Hunt and Shelby Rehmert

PENNSYLVANIA
Lewistown
Kelley Shoop

VIGINIA
Norfolk
Matthew Miles

WISCONSIN
Plover
Jeffrey Hershberger

Larry Richards was hired by IU East in January 2004 to serve as Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs in the role of chief academic officer for the campus. With the addition of chief enrollment officer responsibilities in spring 2007, his title changed to Executive Vice Chancellor. He has been serving most recently as Interim Chancellor since June 2012, when Nasser Paydar left to take a position at IUPUI. He will relinquish the chancellor duties on July 1, 2013, when newly appointed Kathy Cruz-Uribe takes over as permanent Chancellor for the campus.

What many may not realize is that Richards has continued the scholarship he began after receiving his Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania 33 years ago.

“I prefer to keep my scholarship low key for a variety of reasons, but mostly so that my primary responsibilities as a senior administrator get the attention they need for the campus to thrive in the way it deserves,” Richards said. “As a student of management and decision making, my 29 years in administration have provided an opportunity for me to try in practice ideas that I have proposed in my scholarly work—a lifetime case study of sorts. My experiences have definitely affected my thinking and my writing.”

Richards has an interdisciplinary education, combining two early degrees in engineering (electrical engineering and aeronautical systems) with two later degrees in management and decision making (M.B.A. and operations research). That mix proved useful in his first administrative assignment, when he was asked to create a new department offering graduate degrees in engineering management at Old Dominion University in Norfolk, Va. With a background as a founding chair of a department, he was able to move next to a position at Bridgewater State University in Massachusetts as founding dean of its new School of Management and Aviation Science. After two years as acting vice president for Academic Affairs at Bridgewater, he made his way to IU East.

“It has been a privilege and a unique learning experience to have been part of the dramatic transition of a campus from its roots as a community college to its current status as a full-fledged four-year and graduate institution,” Richards said. “The creative aspect of being an administrator has always been what has intrigued me most about these positions, and I have been quite fortunate to have had such a variety of opportunities. Going back to my duties at Old Dominion, a dean there once told me that I was a risk-taker in my career. For me, the bigger risk has always been the risk of not having the opportunity to be creative and a part of something truly significant.”

Richards’ first book was called Constraint Theory: An Approach to Policy-level Modelling, published in 1983 and reprinted in 2002. As a graduate student in Penn’s Wharton School, he had developed an interest in how we think and talk about our desires and values when we formulate problems and make decisions. The predominant way of doing this is to rely on the concepts of goal and objective. This way of thinking and talking about desires seems to prevail, not only among managers and administrators in economic organizations, but also in the everyday lives of ordinary people.

“What if, instead of treating desires as goals or objectives, we treated them as constraints?” Richards asked. “What if we focused on what we don’t want, on what we want to avoid, and leave the rest open to the uncertain circumstances in which we might find ourselves in some other time and place? When circumstances change so fast that we have a hard time keeping up with them, perhaps there are desirable consequences of this alternative approach, particularly at the policy or strategic level of decision making.”

When Richards began his academic career, including the time he spent at Old Dominion, he was able to get grants and do some research. One of his research projects was for the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), in which he was asked to develop an approach for deciding in what new space transportation technologies NASA should invest, given the extreme uncertainty in the environment of space funding and of the technology of space travel itself. This led to a paper entitled “Robustness in the Formulation of Technology Strategy,” for which he was able to use the idea of constraint as a way of mitigating the uncertainty acknowledged. His work in the space travel world also led to his key role in developing a concept and funding for a commercial spaceport on Wallops Island, Va., the only civilian spaceport in the country.

“While administrators, and people in general, still tend to think in terms of goals and objectives, I continue to develop the idea of constraint as an alternative way of thinking about desires,” said Richards. “It is a way of leaving our options open in the face of extreme uncertainty and of exploring common ground when multiple stakeholders have conflicting interests. Rather than leave it to those in positions of power to make the decision for us, let’s see if we, the people, can first agree on what we don’t want!”

One of the threads that Richards has pulled through all his work, from the time he was first introduced to it as an undergraduate student in electrical engineering through all his education and scholarship to date, is a body of work called cybernetics. Cybernetics is often associated with technologies like artificial intelligence, robotics and virtual reality, but it has also raised interesting questions about human cognitive processes. In particular, it asks whether or not the use of technological metaphors to describe human mental activity can have undesirable social consequences. Should human memory, for example, be thought of as storage? Should the brain be thought of as a centralized information processor? Should thinking itself be thought of as a logical process only?

“When modern cybernetics arose during the 1940s, it represented a new way of thinking about concepts like communication, control, information, self-organization, intelligence, and other non-physical phenomena,” Richards said. “It challenged the conventional logic of linear cause and effect and offered a dynamic and circular (or recursive) approach to describing and explaining such phenomena. The idea of constraint played a key role in this new approach.”

Richards served as president of the American Society for Cybernetics for three years and was awarded its Norbert Wiener Medal in 2007. He also served as president of the American Society for Engineering Management and was elected a fellow in the Society in 2002. He remains active in both organizations, a combination that allows him to work with others to expand the boundaries of cybernetics and of management to account for the human individual, the decision-maker, the one who does the describing and explaining and choosing that generate new ideas. This has been a key development in the thinking on human participation in modern organizations and societies, and how to facilitate it.

“This is not philosophy,” said Richards. “It is about the quite practical endeavor of realizing human potential and reducing human misery. It is about ways of thinking and how we get stuck in particular ways of thinking and how we can make the way of thinking about our world a choice rather than accepting, without question or even awareness, the current prevailing way as the default.”

As he moved into more senior leadership positions, Richards found the extreme demands on his time to make it virtually impossible to continue to take the grant-funded path to his scholarship that he had done earlier. So, he expanded the scope of his scholarship and began writing essays on cybernetics, social transformation and societal design. With titles like “Beyond Planning: Technological Support for a Desirable Society,” “Propositions on Cybernetics and Social Transformation,” “The Anticommunication Imperative,” “Difference-making from a Cybernetic Perspective,” and “Idea Avoidance,” these essays have drawn on theoretical constructs in modern cybernetics as well as his own background and experiences in decision making at the policy level. They have also become the substance of presentations at conferences and at colleges and universities. Most recently he presented at Evergreen State College in Olympia, Wash., on the topic “Social and Unsocial Change: The Cybernetics of Desire.”

“I have also been fortunate to have found a group of interested teachers and students at an experimental school in Illinois called the School for Designing a Society,” Richards said. “For over 20 years now, the students of this school have been challenged to imagine a society in which they would like to live, and one in which, of course, others would like to live as well. As a guest presenter and facilitator at the school, I find the conversations encountered there to inform and stimulate my thinking.”

One student in the school took Richards’ essays and retyped some of them into a booklet that he published online under the title, Craft and Constraint, Clocks and Conversation.

When he can find the time, Richards continues to write and present. He has ideas for a couple of books on cybernetics and decision making, for example. Themes may include constraint-based design, collaborative decision making, alternative orientations to time and dynamics, and the consequences of a technology-assisted, dialogic society.

“I don’t know how much value these ideas hold for others,” Richards said, “but I do know that they are what I enjoy thinking about and doing. They have also fit well with my career in higher education administration.”

Indiana University East will host Family Move Night beginning at 5:30 p.m. on Friday, May 17, in the Whitewater Hall Lobby. Courtney Crozier and Marci Crozier, former competitors on the Biggest Loser Season 11, will speak on nutrition and exercise at 6:30 p.m. in Vivian Auditorium.

Courtney Crozier, of Valparaiso, Ind., is a senior working on her Bachelor of Science in Business Administration through IU East’s online degree completion program. She is the owner of YoAmazing Yogurt Shoppe in Valparaiso. The Croziers were contestants on the Biggest Loser during Season 11, which began airing on NBC in January 2011.

“Our message is mostly about hope. Anyone can do something if they put their mind to it! There is a wellness wheel that keeps our lives moving in a healthy way as long as it’s balanced. Balance is key and it’s something we strive for daily,” Crozier said.

Family Move Night is free and open to the public. This is a family focused event to assist families in thinking about ways to integrate healthy behaviors into their routines. Activities include face painting for children, massage for parents, booths with healthy food samples and information on nutrition, healthy recipes and community agency programs. Door prizes and gifts for children in attendance will be available at the end of the event.

“With childhood obesity on the rise in our community, we thought it would be of great benefit to offer families in our community an alternative to promote healthy lifestyles,” said Dean of the School of Nursing Karen Clark. “We decided a Family Move Night would provide families the opportunity to learn fun ways to maintain or improve their health. We are also excited about having Marci and Courtney as keynote speakers, telling their stories of how positive lifestyle changes have made a difference in their lives.”

Family Move Night is sponsored by the IU East School of Nursing and School of Business and Economics.

The Class of 2013 will receive 560 diplomas during Indiana University East’s 42nd Commencement Ceremony at 6 p.m. on Friday, May 10, at the Richmond High School Tiernan Center. Of the degrees being conferred, 532 are bachelor’s degrees and 28 master’s degrees.

The Commencement Ceremony will welcome friends and families of graduates from near and far.

IU East’s online degree completion programs are a popular option for students in the region as well as across the United States and beyond. The online degree completion programs offer the high quality of an Indiana University degree and the flexibility to fit studying around work and family schedules.

The attraction of the online degree completion programs brings a growing number of these students to Richmond, Ind., each year to visit the campus and to attend the Commencement Ceremony. Of the total number of graduates, there are 42 Indiana counties represented, 21 states and five countries. IU East hosted a luncheon for the online students attending Commencement to welcome those traveling from a distance.

The Class of 2013 has many characteristics. A brief glance at the statistics and figures provides a look at the graduates joining over 6,000 IU East alumni.

• Indiana Resident: 437
• Non-Resident: 116
• Male: 150
• Female: 403
• The oldest student graduating is 77, the youngest is 20.
• The most numerous degree to be granted is the B.S. in Business Administration (145).
• The second most frequent degree to be granted is the B.S. in Nursing (98).
• Forty-seven percent are first generation students.

If sorting graduates by age, those who are 23 and younger compose 13.6 percent. Graduates ages 23-29 represent 40.1 percent of the class while those 30 and over compose 46.3 percent.

The ceremony will be broadcast via live stream video at iue.edu/live. The website also includes live commencement updates and commentary via Twitter and Facebook. Richmond residents can also watch the ceremony live on WCTV Channel 20.

As part of the ceremony, IU East will award a Distinguished Alumni Award to Robert A. Coons, Senior Vice President and Chief Administrative Officer at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology in Terre Haute, Ind. Over the past year, Coons served Rose-Hulman as the interim president. Coons received his associate degree from IU East. A list of past award recipients is available online.

Britany Swallow of Richmond, Ind., will address fellow classmates during the ceremony as the student speaker. Swallow will receive a Bachelor of Social Work and was selected to address the 2013 class after auditioning for the honor. Swallow was president of the Student Government Association (SGA).

Kelly Coffman of West Alexandria, Ohio, is the recipient of the Naomi Osborne Award, an honor given to the graduate with the highest grade point average, and will lead the graduating class during the alumni induction ceremony. Coffman will receive a Bachelor of Science in Elementary Education.

For more information, visit iue.edu/commencement.

Indiana University East first graduating cohort in the Master of Science in Management program will receive their diplomas during the 42nd Commencement Ceremony on Friday, May 10. The M.S.M program is a part of the School of Business and Economics.

The cohort – composed of 18 graduate students – began coursework in January 2012 and met on weekends during the next 15 months to complete the program. Students in the cohort come from nine different undergraduate majors and 10 different organization or business backgrounds.

“We are so excited to send our first cohort of masters-prepared graduates out into the region. Their graduation is the culmination of years of dreaming, work and planning by many people at IU East and our partners throughout the region,” said Fredricka Joyner, director of the Graduate Program and an associate professor of business administration and organization behavior.

The M.S.M. is designed for employed professionals seeking a graduate-level business degree. This graduate degree provides a highly interactive learning environment that includes analysis, communication, leadership, and innovative thinking. The learning outcomes are designed to help individuals sharpen their entrepreneurial and leadership skills to take their careers to the next level. This is accomplished through focused self-assessment, project-based learning and peer interaction.

Adam McQueen of Richmond works as an adult probation officer for the Wayne County Probation Department. He was attracted to the M.S.M. program not only for the cost and convenience but also because he felt it could help him become a more well-rounded person.

“Specifically, my bachelor’s degree was in criminal justice and I could have very easily gotten a master’s degree in the same field, but I did not want that. I wanted something different and did not know what that was until I entered this program,” McQueen said. “The reach of this degree is expansive. The themes and content of this program are applicable to almost any field.”

Amy Houpey, of Liberty, Ind., received her undergraduate degree from IU East. She said the time frame for the program was appealing because she was not looking for a program that would take years to complete. She works for McCullough-Hyde Memorial Hospital in Oxford, Ohio.

“The M.S.M. program has given me the tools I needed to advance my leadership skills. In addition, I have further developed my technical skills, presentation skills, and communication skills,” Houpey said.

Phil Williamson of Aurora, Ind., matriculated to the graduate program after completing his Bachelor of Science in Business Administration in 2010 through IU East’s off-campus program in Lawrenceburg. He said IU East’s program appealed to him because of the cohort structure, which was similar to his undergraduate experience, and feels this structure is the most effective method of education.

The program, from the beginning, also provided Williamson with tools he could use at his job as a maintenance coordinator for Duke Energy.

“I left this program with so many memorable experiences that to name one that is more significant than another would be very difficult. I will always look back and cherish my time in this program. What I hold of most value, is the incredible relationships that were built with my fellow classmates and faculty members,” Williamson said.

Currently, the M.S.M cohort is accepting applications for its third cohort to begin August 2013.

For more information about the Master of Science in Management, contact Darla Randall, graduate admissions coordinator for the School of Business and Economics at (765) 973-8366 or go online to iue.edu/management.

IU East Student Showcase
Indiana University East and Purdue University College of Technology in Richmond students now have their work on display in the Meijer Artway through Friday, May 10. Students exhibiting work were in fine arts classes at IU East during the fall 2012 and spring 2013 semesters.

Instructors selected pieces for monetary awards during the artists’ reception April 17. Robert Warfel, president of Stagg Safety of Richmond, sponsored the awards.

First Place
James T. Snyder, Brownsville, Ind. – Metalsmithing and Jewelry
Kaly Reichter, Richmond, Ind. – Photography
Jody Jones, Richmond, Ind. – Sculpture/3D
Jama Young, Indianapolis –Ceramics
Melissa Whicker, Richmond, Ind. – Painting/Drawing
Richard Spence, Eaton, Ohio – Mixed Media

Second Place  
Kelsey Hoffmann, Richmond, Ind. – Metalsmithing and Jewelry
Jackson Seitz, Richmond, Ind. – Sculpture/3D and Ceramics
Diana Fahl, Lynn, Ind. – Photography
Rebecca Murray, Richmond, Ind. – Photography
Kelsey Rubright, Eaton, Ohio – Drawing/Painting
Danielle Standley, Connersville, Ind. – Mixed Media

Third Place
Ashley Caudill, Eaton, Ohio – Photography
Julie Beaver, Connersville, Ind. – Photography
Piedad Llerena, Richmond, Ind. – Metalsmithing and Jewelry
Sadie Harmeyer, Richmond, Ind. – Sculpture/3D
Adam Gibb, Richmond, Ind. – Ceramics
Jennifer Sandstrom, Richmond, Ind. – Photography
Chris Halberstadt, Cambridge City, Ind. – Drawing/Painting
Heather Sites, Hagerstown, Ind. – Drawing/Painting
Candice Davis, Richmond, Ind. – Drawing/Painting
Seth Prince, Albany, Ind. – Drawing/Painting
Eric Hall, Economy, Ind. – Drawing/Painting

Visitors are welcome to view the exhibit during regular hours, 8 a.m. to 5 p.m., Monday through Friday. For more information, call Ed Thornburg, gallery curator, at (765) 973-8605 or visit iue.edu/gallery.

IU East Honors Program students present at MEHA
Thirty-one IU East Honors Program students presented papers at the Mid-East Honors Association (MEHA) Conference in Dearborn, Mich., held April 5-7. MEHA is comprised of honors colleges and programs from Eastern Illinois, Indiana, Northern Kentucky, Southern Michigan, Ohio and West Virginia. Students were accompanied by Alisa Clapp-Itnyre, Honors Program director and professor of English, Daron Olson, assistant professor of history, and Ron Itnyre, visiting lecturer in biology.

Congratulations to students who presented papers (paper descriptions are available online):
Tony Breitenbach, Connersville, Ind.
Christine Carrera, Richmond, Ind.
Eleanor Casson, Connersville, Ind.
Hannah Clark, Richmond, Ind.
Alexis Doughty, Richmond, Ind.
Leigh Anne Ernst, Richmond, Ind.
Donnie Estes, Richmond, Ind.
Kaylyn Flora, Richmond, Ind.
Ashley Hall, Connersville, Ind.
Ian Holt, Richmond, Ind.
Chanda Hunt, Union City, Ohio
Alexis Hurd, Richmond, Ind.
Layne Husted, Centerville, Ind.
Brianna Keener, Connersville, Ind.
Carly Manis, Richmond, Ind.
McKenna Marshall, Eaton, Ohio
Mariah Marshall, Eaton, Ohio
Rachael Money, Cedar Grove, Ind.
Casey Mowen, Eaton, Ohio
Emily O’Brien, Richmond, Ind.
Adam Obringer, Lewisburg, Ohio
Rachel Phenis, Lynn, Ind.
Heather Proctor, Richmond, Ind.
Deidra Purvis, New Madison, Ohio
Lori Stephens, Carthage, Ind.
Stephanie Stewart, Richmond, Ind.
Brooke Sahm, Richmond, Ind.
Shelby Stokes, Elwood, Ind.
Michael Teufel, Richmond, Ind.
Katie Wooten, Brookville, Ind.

IU East Students Present at Women’s & Gender Studies Conference
Six IU East students presented their research or creative work at the 25th Annual Indiana University Women’s and Gender Studies Undergraduate Conference, which was held at IU Bloomington on April 12. IU East faculty members Denise Bullock, associate professor of sociology, Ann Kim, assistant professor of fine arts, and Laverne Nishihara, associate professor of English, served as faculty advisors and chaired sessions at the conference.

Congratulations to all the students, whose presentations were well received:

Kaylyn Flora, Richmond, Ind.: “Essentialist and Social Constructionist Theory: Evolving from Modern to Practical Postmodern”
Stephanie Fudge, Richmond, Ind.: “A Rainbow of Perspectives on Homosexuality”
Chanda Hunt, Union City, Ohio: “Suzanne Valadon: Conquering the Male Gaze”
Emily O’Brien, Richmond, Ind.: “Age of Arousal: Debunking the Myth about Victorian Women”
Danielle Standley, Connersville, Ind.: “The Collapse of a System” (art work)
Anastasia Tuggle, Richmond, Ind.:“The Quest for Identity in Audre Lorde’s Zami: A New Spelling of My Name”

IU East Enactus team receives 4.0 Club, 44 Club Awards
The Enactus team at Indiana University East has received two more awards since attending the Enactus United States Regional Competition Exposition held April 12 in Chicago. The team was named a league champion in its league while in Chicago and will advance to the national competition May 21-23 in Kansas City.

The Enactus team received notification that it has also received a 4.0 Club Award and Club 44 Award.

The 4.0 Club Award recognizes chapters for quality education programs, success in Enactus and long-term sustainability in enabling progress through entrepreneurial action. Enactus United States has a Team Index that was designed many years ago to measure the health of a team. The factors used to evaluate a team on the Team Index includes: Quality Faculty Advisor, Quality Administrative Support, Student Leaders’ Success, Program Success, Financial Stability, Community Engagement, Participating in Enactus Events and Competitive Initiatives, and Competition Results. Each year Enactus recognizes the teams who earn a 4.0 or higher out of a 5.0 scale.

The Club 44 Award recognizes the accomplishments of the top university teams in the nation. Enactus U.S. has set a benchmark for college and university teams to reach 44 students per team; IU East has a total of 46 students participating in Enactus. To honor those teams reaching 44 or more active members, Enactus U.S. recognizes each team, awarding them for their membership into the Club 44. Active Enactus team members contribute at least 10 hours an academic year by using their business concepts to develop community outreach projects that improve the quality of life and standard of living for people in need.

IU East students on the team are Hannah Clawson, Hagerstown, Ind., Ryan Doughty, Richmond, Ind., Tyler Fangman, Cold Spring, Ky., Drew Houck, Portland, Ind., Nick Miller, Lynn, Ind., Dan Printz, Greenville, Ohio, Bryan Schlatter, Indianapolis, Clint Shepherd, Eaton, Ohio, Troy Weir, Richmond, Ind., and Megan Winn, Eaton, Ohio.

Enactus (formerly known as SIFE) is a community of student, academic and business leaders committed to using the power of entrepreneurial action to enable human progress. Enactus establishes student programs on college campuses across the nation. Enactus students apply business concepts to develop community outreach projects, transform lives and shape a better, more sustainable world.

Indiana University East recognized several faculty and staff with awards for their service to the university during the Honors Convocation ceremony held April 25.

Ange Cooksey, senior lecturer in humanities, is this year’s recipient of the Helen Lees Award, established in 1991. Professor Emeritus Lees passed away in 1992, but her spirit continues in this annual award to honor a full-time faculty member who has taught at least 10 semesters at IU East.

Cooksey received the award for demonstrating that she is an engaged teacher who motivates her students to excellence in the classroom, online and through her leadership in service-learning. Students know that she brings enthusiasm and caring to everything that she does. She experiences fully the joy of teaching and the fulfillment that comes when students grasp a difficult concept.

Daron Olson, assistant professor of History, received the Award for Excellence in Research. This award recognizes excellence in research and/or creative work by a full-time faculty member over a sustained period of time.

His research focuses on Scandinavia, particularly Norway, and the topics of national identity, migration and race. He published a book in 2012 entitled “Vikings Across the Atlantic: Emigration and the Building of a Greater Norway, 1860-1945.” He is currently researching his next book about how Norway promoted its national identify in exile during World War II.

Katherine Frank, dean of the School of Humanities and Social Sciences, received the Distinguished Faculty Service Award. This award recognizes distinguished service, either one-time or sustained, by a full-time faculty member above and beyond the expectations of any compensation or release time provided for the service.

Frank has restructured the School of Humanities and Social Sciences, added seven new full-time faculty members and five new academic programs. She led the “One Book, Many Voices” project which involved tremendous collaborations both internally and externally. Frank serves on the Positive Place Initiative Steering Committee, the boards of the Richmond Symphony, Cope Environmental Center, and Communities in Schools, just to name a few, and her activities have strengthened the relationship between IU East and the Richmond community.

Natalia Rybas, assistant professor of Communication Studies, received the Progress Award for New Faculty. The Progress Award is a symbol of achievement for new faculty members as they are establishing their careers at IU East.

Rybas has integrated her teaching, scholarship and service to support the mission of IU East. She is engaged in service in the School of Humanities and Social Sciences and has been particularly active in the community.

Her scholarship focuses on cultural communication studies that evaluate phenomena of everyday life with special emphasis on the issues of new media and culture. She is a proponent of active learning and she encourages students to be both creative and critical in the learning process.

Wayne Klusman is the recipient of the part-time Faculty Award for Excellence in Teaching. He began teaching geology at IU East in 1973 when classes were still held on the Earlham College campus.

Awards were presented to an outstanding support staff member and professional staff member who have made significant contributions to IU East during the past year. Kara Newman, assistant director in the Office of Admissions, received the Professional Council Service Award and Deanna Cooper, secretary for the Center for Health Promotion, received the Staff Council Service Award.

Newman was recognized for being instrumental in the enrollment growth at IU East, in particular her work with high school students, their parents, guidance counselors, and other school officials. She also has developed the Admissions Ambassadors, a group of students who lead campus tours for new and prospective students and staff important campus events.

Cooper is highly respected by her coworkers and the students. She has coordinated numerous health initiatives and activities on campus, and she volunteered to be the lead person for the health screenings.

Andrew Britt is the recipient of the Student Employee Service Award. He is currently an intern for the Office of Career Planning & Placement and brings with him a vast skill set and experience by working with other departments on campus including University College. He is a Peer Mentor for four First-Year Seminar classes and has served as the campus mascot, Rufus.

Britt demonstrates a strong work ethic and leadership skills in serving as a role model to orientation leaders, envisioning and building one of the most active student clubs on campus, leading the first Spirit of Philanthropy week as part of Students Today, Alumni Tomorrow, and organizing many student events. He has worked tirelessly to create, promote, develop, maintain, and advocate for programs that contribute to student success.

Following graduation this May, Britt plans to pursue his Master of Science in College Student Personnel Administration at Canisius College in Buffalo, New York, in the fall.

Indiana University East celebrated the accomplishments of its students during the annual Honors Convocation held April 25.

Chancellor’s Scholar Awards are campus-wide awards, presented to the highest achieving seniors, by academic school. Chancellor’s awards were presented to:
Ronald Jarvis Jr., Richmond, Ind., School of Business and Economics
William Theising, Sunman, Ind., School of Education
Hillary Padgett,  Rushville, Ind., School of Humanities and Social Sciences
Ryan Doughty, Richmond, Ind., School of Natural Science and Mathematics
Sherry West, New Point, Ind., School of Nursing
Whitney Wesley, Gaston, Ind., School of Social Work

Outstanding Student Awards were given to individuals in their degree programs who displayed outstanding academic achievement at IU East. Students receiving awards are the following:

School of Business and Economics
Margaret Bloom, Connersville, Ind., Outstanding Student in Accounting
Heather Beshears, Merrillville, Ind., Outstanding Student in Business Administration
Catherine Ward, Magnet, Ind., Outstanding Student in Finance
Ryan Frame, Centerville, Ind., Outstanding Student in Management Information Systems
Anna Harrison, Richmond, Ind., Outstanding Student in Informatics
Jeff Foglesong, Vevay, Ind., Outstanding Graduate Student in Business

School of Education
Abigail Fox, Rising Sun, Ind., Outstanding Student in Elementary Education
Brianne Simpson, New Paris, Ohio, Outstanding Student in Secondary Education
Rob Bailey, Richmond, Ind., Outstanding Graduate Student in Education
Jason Allen, Richmond, Ind., Indiana Association of College Teacher Educators Outstanding Student Teacher Award-Elementary
Deidra Purvis, New Madison, Ohio, Indiana Association of College Teacher Educators Outstanding Student Teacher Award-Secondary

General Studies Program
Lisa Thomas, Outstanding Student in General Studies

School of Humanities and Social Sciences
William Kelley, Brookville, Ind., Outstanding Student in Communication Studies
Kristin Waechter, Richmond, Ind., Outstanding Student in Criminal Justice
Patricia Finley, Dublin, Ind., Outstanding Student in English
Kraig Rose, Richmond, Ind., Outstanding Student in History
Chris Carr, Eaton, Ohio, Outstanding Student in Humanities
Clayton Haisley, Richmond, Ind., Outstanding Student in Political Science
Sophia Binkley, Union City, Ind., Outstanding Student in Psychology

School of Natural Science and Mathematics
Jessica Skinner, Richmond, Ind., Outstanding Student in Biochemistry
Brittany Phelps, Eaton, Ohio, Outstanding Student in Biology
Brenda Newman, Winchester, Ind., Outstanding Student in Mathematics

School of Nursing
Stacia Richardson, Richmond, Ind., Outstanding BSN Student
Kevin Reed, Brookville, Ohio, Outstanding RN to BSN Student

School of Social Work
Lee Ann Goeke, Richmond, Ind., Outstanding Student in Social Work

Purdue University College of Technology at Richmond
Justin Wymer, Lewisburg, Ohio, Outstanding Student in Computer Graphics and Engineering Technology
Joshua Sargent, Richmond, Ind., Outstanding Student in Technology Leadership and Innovation

IU East Honors Program Graduates
Leigh Anne Ernst, Richmond, Ind.
Patricia Finley, Dublin, Ind.
Kris Haines, New Castle, Ind.
Clayton Haisley, Richmond, Ind.
Mariah Mason, Centerville, Ind.,
Hillary Padgett, Rushville, Ind.
Deidra Purvis, New Madison, Ohio
Kraig Rose, Richmond, Ind.

Kelly Coffman is the Naomi Osborne Scholar. The award is given to the baccalaureate candidate with the highest grade point average.

Victoria Hicks is the Herbert Presidential Scholar graduate. The Herbert Presidential Scholar program is a prestigious Indiana University-wide scholarship program.