The IU East Center for Leadership Development is hosting a Management Series workshop on Managing Conflict. The public is invited to attend the workshop from 9 a.m. to noon on Thursday, April 4, in the Whitewater Hall Community Room. Registration for the event is online.

It is estimated that as much as 40 percent of a manager’s time is spent dealing with conflict. Conflict is costly to organizations in other ways as well. For example, poorly managed conflict often increases turnover, with replacement costs between 75 percent and 150 percent of the annual salary for each position. This course offers techniques and approaches to enhance conflict management skills and lower the cost of conflict for individuals and organizations.  

Managing Conflict is an overview course that introduces methods to proactively and effectively manage the disagreements encountered in manager/leadership positions. It emphasizes proactive approaches and building long-term positive relationships. Upon completion of this session, participants will be able to:

• Explain the business and personal case for effective conflict management.
• Identify the main factors in a situation that are contributing to the conflict.
• Use the EDGE model to plan appropriate approaches for managing conflict.
• Leverage self-awareness of their preferred approaches to conflict toward improving relationships with others and achieving results.
• Incorporate effective conflict management skills into their management practice.
• Identify opportunities for personal development to support the business imperative for effective conflict management skills.

Participants will leave with a beginning set of practical strategies and tactics that can be immediately applied to the disagreements that arise in their daily work lives.

The cost is $75 per workshop. See the website for information about discounts for multiple participants from the same organization, discounts for Wayne County Area Chamber of Commerce members and certificate options.

Please register online at iue.edu/leadership.

The workshop will be presented by Fredricka Joyner, associate professor and director of the IU East Center for Leadership Development and the Master’s in Management program. Joyner has over three decades of business experience, providing leadership, organization, and community development consulting services to a diverse client list that  includes manufacturing and service organizations, professional practices, health and education coalitions, non-profits, government departments, and social service agencies.

Over the past five years, Joyner has provided training and consulting services related to managing across the generations. She has also designed and delivered a four-day leadership development curriculum to almost 2,000 managers in a global Fortune 500 company. Most recently, she has been providing intensive executive coaching to high potential managers who have been tasked with expanding into international markets.

Joyner earned her Master’s in Organization Management from Antioch University and her Ph.D. in Community Formation from the Union Institute.

Tickets for the lecture by education reformist and award-winning author Jonathan Kozol are still available at Indiana University East. Kozol is visiting the campus April 3 to present a lecture titled “Children and Teachers Under Siege: Race, Poverty, and the Public Schools.” The tickets available are for overflow seating in Whitewater Hall room 132 and the Whitewater Hall Community Room. The presentation will be steamed live to these locations.

The lecture is free and open to the public but a ticket is required. Tickets are available at the Office of the Bursar, located in Whitewater Hall. Kozol’s presentation will be in Vivian Auditorium.

Immediately following the lecture, Kozol will be available to sign recent copies of his newest book: Fire in the Ashes. The book is available for purchase in the IU East Bookstore.

The event is sponsored by IU East and the Diversity Commission.

Kozol is the National Book Award–winning author of Savage Inequalities, Death at an Early Age, The Shame of the Nation, Amazing Grace, and Fire in the Ashes among others. In the passion of the civil rights campaigns of 1964 and 1965, Kozol gave up the prospect of a promising and secure career within the academic world, moved from Harvard Square into a poor black neighborhood of Boston, and became a fourth grade teacher.

He has since devoted his life to the challenge of providing equal opportunity within public schools to every child, of whatever racial origin or economic level. He is, at the present time, the most widely read and highly honored education writer in America.

In fall 2012, Kozol published Fire in the Ashes, a powerful and stirring culmination of the stories he has told over a quarter-century about the children of the poorest urban neighborhood in the United States. Fire in the Ashes follows these children out of their infancy, through the struggles of their adolescence, and into their young adulthood. Some of their stories are painful and heart-breaking, but others are thrilling and dramatic tributes to the courage and audacity of fascinating children who refuse to be defeated by the gross inequalities of U.S. education and arrive at last at gloriously unpredictable and triumphal victories.

When he is not in classrooms, or at universities speaking to future teachers, Kozol spends time in Washington advocating against the No Child Left Behind Act and to convince members of the Senate that an emphasis on “teaching-to-the-test” is unhealthy for children and degrading to teachers. Video interviews of Kozol are available online, including this 2011 “Save our schools” rally video.

Kozol received a summa cum laude degree in English literature from Harvard, after which he was awarded a Rhodes scholarship to Oxford University.

Indiana University East welcomes new professional staff to campus. The continuous increase in enrollment for IU East requires additional staff members in order to further enhance the campus’ mission as a comprehensive bachelor’s and master’s degree institution. IU East has grown student enrollment for 15 consecutive semesters (including summer sessions).

Patti Jo Hicks is the human resources coordinator in the Office of Human Resources. She assists the human resources director with the day to day management of the human resource functions with particular focus on the development of job descriptions, recruitment activities of support staff positions, and budget preparation.

Previously, Hicks was the finance and payroll specialist at Hill’s Pet Nutrition. She received her Master of Science in Management and Leadership from Indiana Wesleyan University and her Bachelor of Science in Human Resources Management from Ball State University.

Susan LeGalley is the academic advisor for the School of Business and Economics. She provides academic advising and counseling for students as well as assistance to find information on courses, programs and services. She received her Master of Education from Grand Valley State University in Allendale, Mich., and her Master of Business Administration from Eastern Michigan University in Ypsilanti, Mich. LeGalley received her Bachelor of Business Administration from the University of Michigan – Flint.

Previously, LeGalley was the assistant director of the Office of Fraternity and Sorority Life at Pennsylvania State University. Before joining Pennsylvania State, she worked for Creighton University as the assistant director of Student Activities for Greek Life.

Joy Maupin is the network administrator in the Office of Information Technology. She maintains all aspects of the campus network. This includes the campus servers, network switches, and wireless deployment.

Previously, Maupin was the network administrator for Dresser Roots, a GE Energy Services company. She received her associate degree in Computer Information Systems from Ivy Tech Community College.

Larry Scott is the disability services coordinator in the Office of Student Support Services. He develops and maintains guidelines, policies and procedures regarding disability services for students. He also coordinates reasonable academic accommodations for students with disabilities.

Previously, Scott was the assistant director of Disability Support Services for Ivy Tech Community College in Muncie. He received his Master of Arts in Political Science and his Bachelor of Science in Political Science from Ball State University. Prior to joining Ivy Tech, he was a disability determination bureau adjudicator for the state of Indiana.

Adam Stevenson is the assistant athletic director and women’s volleyball coach. He will oversee the volleyball program and will manage the advertising and marketing of all IU East athletic programs.

Stevenson received his Bachelor of Arts in Religion and Philosophy from Olivet Nazarene University in Bourbonnais, Ill. After graduating from Olivet Nazarene in 2002, he was an assistant volleyball coach for the university.

Before joining IU East, Stevenson was the head coach at Saint Catharine College. While there, he was named the 2011 Coach of the Year in the Mid-South Conference.

The Indiana University East School of Business and Economics’ Center for Leadership Development will host its Spring Leadership Forum beginning at 7:30 a.m. on Tuesday, April 23, in the Whitewater Hall Community Room. The invited speaker is Justice Loretta H. Rush and she will present “Ethics in Leadership.”

The Spring Leadership Forum is free but reservations are required. Reservations may be made online at iue.edu/springforum. The leadership forum will begin with breakfast and networking from 7:30-8 a.m. followed by the presentation from 8-9 a.m.

Justice Loretta H. Rush was appointed to the Indiana Supreme Court by Governor Mitch Daniels in September 2012. Born in 1958 in Pennsylvania, she moved frequently as a child before settling in Lafayette for her adult life. Rush earned her undergraduate degree from Purdue University and graduated cum laude from the Indiana University Maurer School of Law in Bloomington.

Prior to her appointment to the Indiana Supreme Court, Justice Rush served as Tippecanoe Superior Court 3 judge for 14 years. The court focuses on CHINS, criminal and status offenses of juvenile cases, guardianships, delinquencies and protective order hearings. She assisted with the creation of the Tippecanoe County Court Appointed Special Advocate (CASA) program.

The annual Spring Leadership Forum brings accomplished, diverse leaders from throughout the state of Indiana to IU East to address contemporary leadership issues.

There is no charge for this session; it is being sponsored by the IU East School of Business and Economics. Please reserve attendance by registering online at iue.edu/springforum. For more information, call (765) 973-8366.

About the IU East Center for Leadership Development
The Center for Leadership Development is a campus and community resource focused on creating and offering leadership development initiatives to enhance the managerial and leadership capacities of the region. The center provides leadership seminars, informational briefings, institutes and conferences to further advance the managerial and leadership capacities of individuals and companies in both business and community organizations. A primary purpose of the center is to link the academic resources of the School of Business and Economics to the economic development needs of the region.

More information is available online at iue.edu/leadership.

Indiana University East will participate in a statewide tornado drill on Wednesday, March 27, as part of Indiana’s Severe Weather Awareness Week, March 24 to 30.

During “Operation Stormy Weather” all Indiana University campuses will activate a Tornado Warning Test Drill using IU-Notify, the university’s emergency notification system, between 10 and 10:30 a.m. for the first test and between 7:15 and 7:45 p.m. for the second, both coinciding with the statewide drill. Test messages will be sent to IU East faculty, staff and students via email, text message (SMS), social media, digital signage and website updates. In the event of real severe weather conditions, the drill will be postponed until Thursday, March 28, at the same times.

The campaign is to raise awareness of preparedness and safety procedures during severe weather season. “Operation Stormy Weather” is designed to encourage faculty, staff and students to be prepared for tornadoes and severe thunderstorms, which can include damaging winds, hail, lightning and flooding.

What to do before the drills:

• All members of the IU community are expected to follow tornado procedures as if this were a real tornado warning by seeking shelter when notification is received, whether that is via sirens or IU-Notify alerts.
• Locate tornado-safe locations in all the buildings you typically use. They will be building-specific. Tornado shelters are indicated by a tornado funnel cloud symbol.
• If you have access or functional needs, please determine the best solution for your situation in order to get to an appropriate tornado-safe location.

During the drills:

• Remain in the shelter location until you or others in the location receive the IU-Notify All Clear alert.
• When IU-Notify messages are delivered, recipients should be sure those around them are aware of the message in case they are not subscribed to IU-Notify. They should check to see whether anyone in their vicinity needs assistance in following severe weather procedure.
• Please note the time you receive the alerts from IU-Notify, including whether you saw them on digital signs or campus websites. Your feedback is important and helps the university better protect you should the system need to be activated in an emergency. You will have the opportunity to share your feedback through a short survey linked to the IU-Notify test email.
• Lab procedures: If you’re working in a lab or conducting another critical function that cannot be interrupted and can’t seek shelter during this drill, the people who cannot seek shelter should take a few minutes to review building procedures. Know where you would have gone to seek shelter, and discuss those procedures with anyone else in the vicinity. However, if this were a real tornado warning, you would be expected to proceed to a designated tornado shelter location.

Indiana University East has been named to the 2013 President’s Higher Education Community Service Honor Roll by the Corporation for National and Community Service.

This designation is the highest honor a college or university can receive for its commitment to volunteering, service-learning, and civic engagement. The Honor Roll list is available online.

IU East’s programs with the Boys and Girls Club of Wayne County, Girls Inc. of Wayne County, and Conversations with Seniors as part of the “One Book, Many Voices” project and in collaboration with the Area 9 Agency were recognized through the award. There were 775 IU East students who engaged in academic service-learning or community service programs in 2012.

Frances Yates, director of the IU East Campus Library, and faculty liaison to Indiana Campus Compact, said, “Service-learning is transformative for our students and has a positive impact in our community. There is a steady increase in student engagement across academic disciplines due to faculty and staff commitment to providing experiential learning.”

The Center for Service-Learning is housed in the Campus Library.

“I love having the opportunity to work with each child because you can tell they each love getting that extra help,” said Megan Olson, an Elementary Education major also minoring in Special Education. Olson, of Greenfield, Ind., volunteers as a Homework Hero at Northeastern Elementary School.

Kesla Klingler, of Hollansburg, Ohio, is a psychology major who plans to attend graduate school to become a counselor. Klingler said she is energized by the excitement for learning by the girls she works with at Girls’ Inc.

“Service learning has opened so many doors for me! Through service learning I am able to be impacted daily by young girls who ignite my passion to make a difference,” Klingler said.

Highlights of some of the community service partnerships IU East students are involved in:

Academic enrichment was provided at the Boys & Girls Club of Wayne County through homework help, tutoring, and literacy strategies that resulted in 60 percent of youth participants maintaining or increasing their reading level during the summer break.

The “Strong, Smart, and Bold ™” theme of Girls, Inc. of Wayne County was supported by after-school literacy activities created and facilitated by an IU East student leader to mentor girls ages 6-18. Sixty girls and their families were impacted by the knowledge gained through enriching out-of-school experiences.

Sixty students in First-Year Seminars and 10 faculty participated in a new “One Book, Many Voices” campus-community program. They visited Senior and Adult Day Care centers, listening to stories and developing interpersonal connections that will continue into other projects.

About the President’s Higher Education Community Service Honor Roll
The President’s Higher Education Community Service Honor Roll honors the nation’s leading higher education institutions and their students, faculty and staff for their commitment to bettering their communities through service. These are institutions that reflect the values of exemplary community service and achieve meaningful outcomes in their communities.

The Corporation for National and Community Service (CNCS) is a federal agency that engages more than five million Americans in service. For more information, visit NationalService.gov.

Indiana University East will host the Spring Conference of the Indiana Section of the Mathematical Association of America March 22-23.

Invited speakers include Ivars Peterson, MAA director of Publications and Communication, presenting “The Jungles of Randomness;” and Aparna Higgins, University of Dayton and MAA Project NExT Director, who will present “Sequences of Polygons.”

IU East faculty will present talks as well during the conference including Mort Seddighin, professor of mathematics, Markus Pomper, associate professor of mathematics, Young You, assistant professor of mathematics, and Neil Sabine, interim dean of the School of Natural Science and Mathematics and associate professor of biology. IU East Interim Chancellor Larry Richards will give the welcoming address.

“This conference brings mathematics faculty and students from across the state together to exchange ideas on research,” Seddighin said.

In addition to the speakers and workshops, the Indiana College Mathematics Competition will be held during the conference from 4-6:30 p.m. on Friday, March 22. The competition includes an estimated 27 teams from colleges and universities throughout the state of Indiana.

The Mathematical Association of America is the largest professional society that focuses on mathematics being accessible at the undergraduate level. Members include university, college, and high school teachers; graduate and undergraduate students; pure and applied mathematicians; computer scientists; statisticians; and many others in academia, government, business, and industry. The mission of the MAA is to advance the mathematical sciences, especially at the collegiate level.

The registration deadline is March 17 to attend the conference. The deadline to submit papers for the conference is March 15. More information is available at http://sections.maa.org/indiana.

For more information please contact the MAA representative Mort Seddighin, professor of mathematics at IU East, by calling (765) 973-8268 or email mseddigh@iue.edu.

History and Political Science Club to hold book signing
An author book signing and sale featuring Assistant Professor of History Daron Olson and Associate Professor of World Languages and Cultures Julian Simon will be held from 2-3:30 p.m. on Tuesday, March 5, in the Community Room. The event is sponsored by the History and Political Science Club.

Simon was the co-editor of The Cognition of Literature, published by the Board of the University of Texas Press in spring 2012. The Cognition of Literature is an anthology on Cognitive Literary Studies, featuring both humanists and scientists.

The first chapter, “Current Themes and New Directions in Cognitive Literary Studies,” which is a panorama of the field of Cognitive Literary Studies, was co-authored by Simon.

Olson published his book, Vikings Across the Atlantic: Emigration and the Building of A Greater Norway, 1860-1945, in December 2012. The book was published by the University of Minnesota Press.

In the book, Olson looks at how the Vikings landing in the year 1000 in North America and Norway’s King Haakon VII return from exile in June 1945 form the vision of a greater Norway that expanded the boundaries of the Norwegian nation. According to the book’s excerpt, Olson looks at matters of religion, literature, media, and ethnicity, to explore how Norwegian-American myths changed over time in relation to a broader Anglo-American culture, and were at the same time influencing and being influenced by Norway’s burgeoning national culture.

Business faculty publishes case study on organizational culture, crisis management
IU East School of Business and Economics Dean David Frantz and Fredricka Joyner, associate professor of business administration and organization behavior, published an article in this month’s issue of the Journal of Business Case Studies.

The article, “When Culture Saved the Day: Organizational Culture and Crisis Management,” appears in the March/April 2013 issue. According to the article’s abstract, the case focuses on Regional Hospital’s approach to building an intentional organization culture and how that work contributed to the organization’s ability to survive a crisis.

The Journal of Business Case Studies is a publication for use in business and economics courses and features articles related to the use of case studies in the classroom.

Associate librarians publish chapter in LibGuides book
Lora Baldwin and Sue McFadden, associate librarians, recently published a chapter in the book Using LibGuides to Enhance Library Services: A LITA Guide. Baldwin and McFadden co-wrote Chapter 11, “Using Statistical Gathering Tools to Determine Effectiveness and Accountability.” The book was published by ALA TechSource in January 2013.

The work built on their expertise as LibGuide administrators, knowledge of instruction and understanding of statistical facts.

The book is a reference guide organized by the Library and Information Technology Association (LITA), a division of ALA. The mission of LITA is to educate, serve and reach out to its members, other ALA members and divisions, and the entire library and information community through its publications, programs and other activities designed to promote, develop, and aid in the implementation of library and information technology.

Neon Trees will perform in concert Thursday, April 11, announced today by Indiana University East and the Student Activity Advisory Team. The doors will open at 7 p.m. with the concert starting at 8 p.m. and will be held at the Richmond High School Tiernan Center.

Pre-sale tickets cost $15 for students, $25 for the general public. If available, the day of the concert tickets will cost $20 for students and $30 for general admission. You must be 18 years old in order to purchase a ticket. Minors must be accompanied by an adult.

Tickets may be purchased at the Office of Campus Life, located in Springwood Hall room 107. Hours 8 a.m. to 6 p.m., Monday through Thursday, and 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. on Friday.

Students packed the Graf Center on campus for today’s announcement, unveiled by the IU East Office of Campus Life and hosted by G101.3.

Rebeckah Hester, director of Campus Life, said in 2012 IU East had huge success with its spring concert featuring Mike Posner. This year IU East is expecting an even larger turnout.

“Neon Trees is widely known. I think the community and our student body is completely pumped about the Neon Trees coming to Richmond to perform,” Hester said.

Neon Trees include Tyler Glenn, lead vocal; Branden Campbell, bass; Elaine Bradley, drums; and Chris Aleen, guitars. Their first record, Habits, debuted on Mercury Records and they released their first single “Animal” in 2010.

Neon Trees released its second album in 2012, Picture Show, which includes hit song “Everybody Talks” as well as “Lessons in Love (All Day, All Night),” “Moving in the Dark,” “Mad Love,” and “Trust” among others.

Neon Trees have opened for the Flaming Lips and Panic! At the Disco, 30 Seconds to Mars tour, Summer 2010 Bang the Gong Tour and Lollapalooza. They toured with The Offspring and Dead Sara in fall 2012 and is currently on tour with Maroon 5. They have also performed on late-night shows including Jimmy Kimmel Live!, The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, Conan, and Late Night with Jimmy Fallon. The Neon Trees have also performed in the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade and Dick Clark’s New Year’s Rockin’ Eve 2013.

For more information, call the Office of Campus Life at (765) 973-8240 or visit iue.edu/campuslife.

Indiana University President Michael A. McRobbie announced the selection of Kathryn Cruz-Uribe as the new chancellor of the IU East campus, subject to the approval of the IU Board of Trustees. Cruz-Uribe has been serving as provost and executive vice president for academic affairs at California State University, Monterey Bay.

Cruz-Uribe has been at California State University, Monterey Bay, since 2007, leading all aspects of the academic operations of the university and serving as its second-in-command. Before that she was at Northern Arizona University from 1989 to 2007, serving four years as dean of the College of Social and Behavioral Sciences.

“Kathy has been highly successful in working with her colleagues to develop and retain quality student enrollments, while working with fellow administrators and faculty to accommodate such growth,” McRobbie said.

John Applegate, IU executive vice president for university regional affairs, planning and policy, said, “Kathy’s strategic planning experience, proven leadership abilities and commitment to community engagement will be invaluable as our East campus continues its momentum as a leader in fulfilling its educational mission to the community and contributing to economic and cultural development in the region.”

Cruz-Uribe was recommended by a search and screen committee led by Bill Stephan, IU vice president for engagement. She will succeed Nasser Paydar, who led the campus since 2007 and became executive vice chancellor of Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis. Larry Richards has been serving as interim chancellor since last spring.

“I am thrilled and honored to be chosen as the next chancellor of Indiana University East,” Cruz-Uribe said. “My husband and I very much enjoyed our visit to campus and the wonderful faculty, staff, students and community members we met. I look forward to the opportunity to lead the continued development of the region’s campus of choice for four-year and master’s education, and to collaborate with colleagues throughout the state as we work to improve educational attainment in the state of Indiana.”

In her current role, Cruz-Uribe developed and implemented a 10-year strategic plan at California State University, Monterey Bay, which included a five-year academic plan. During her tenure, freshman retention rates rose from 65 percent in 2007 to 79 percent in 2012.

Enrollment grew by about 50 percent, from about 3,600 students in 2007 to more than 5,600 in 2012, accompanied by a commitment to academic and space planning to accommodate such growth. The university also went through a successful reaccreditation process — its first since its founding in 1994. Eight new academic degree programs came into existence under her leadership, as well as an undergraduate research center, and the general education program was revised.

In addition to four academic colleges at California State University, Monterey Bay, several other units reported to Cruz-Uribe, including the library, information technology, sponsored programs, international programs and institutional research.

At Northern Arizona University, she was dean of its largest academic unit, the College of Social and Behavioral Sciences. An archaeologist, Cruz-Uribe received her doctorate in anthropology from the University of Chicago.

IU East offers residents of eastern Indiana, western Ohio and beyond a broad range of bachelor’s degrees and selected master’s degrees and certificates through its traditional main campus in Richmond, off-campus sites and online program options. It has an enrollment of more than 4,100 students, over 425 faculty and staff, and more than 50 areas of study. The campus has a strong commitment to academic excellence. It offers the full collegiate experience, including NAIA men’s and women’s sports and a full complement of activities.

As chief executive officer of IU East, the chancellor is responsible for the operation of the campus and reports to the IU president through the executive vice president for university regional affairs, planning and policy. The IU East chancellor works with the chancellors and provost of IU’s seven other campuses.