Stories from 2011

November 21, 2011 |

Indiana University East School of Nursing has six members of its faculty who have earned the designation Certified Nurse Educator (CNE) after meeting strict eligibility criteria and successfully completing a rigorous certification examination developed and administered by the National League for Nursing. “Having six Certified Nurse Educators on campus speaks to the exceptional quality of ...

November 18, 2011 |

IU East hosts discussion on service-learning contributes to academic success Several Indiana University East faculty, staff and students participated in the Indiana University Partnerships and Reciprocity Conference on service-learning initiatives. The conference was held at IUPUI November 14 and had live participants at all eight Indiana University campuses. IU East hosted a live stream panel ...

November 17, 2011 |

The Indiana University East Annual High School Speech Tournament will be held on Saturday, December 10, 2011, in Whitewater Hall. Registration is from 7:20-7:50 a.m. and the tournament will end by 3:30 p.m. The event is free and open to the public. The speech tournament is presented by the School of Humanities and Social Sciences. ...

November 17, 2011 |

The Indiana University East volleyball team will host Freed-Hardeman University at a NAIA Volleyball National Championship Opening Round match. The match will be at 2 p.m. Saturday, November 19, at the Richmond High School Tiernan Center. The Lions are 27-8 and ranked 25th in the Tachikara-NAIA Volleyball Coaches Top 25 Poll. The Red Wolves are ...

November 14, 2011 |

Traci Taylor has been an advocate for people with disabilities since her childhood.  She hopes to continue advocating through her participation in a film being released this fall, “The Movement: One Man Joins an Uprising.” Taylor, disability services coordinator at IU East, is one of four mentor athletes featured in “The Movement” who have overcome ...

November 10, 2011 |

A class from Richmond High School gained hands-on construction experience at Indiana University East. Brad Walton’s building construction class partnered with the campus to help build a well-known television game show set for its annual Guidance Counselors’ Breakfast held November 3. The Guidance Counselors’ Breakfast is an event for high school guidance counselors from Indiana ...

November 9, 2011 |

Indiana University East will celebrate “Homecoming 2011: Wild Night” the week of November 12-18. The campus is celebrating its 40th anniversary this fall, and Homecoming features several events that have an early 1970s influence. The theme is based on the song written and released by Van Morrison in 1971 and more recently covered by John ...

November 8, 2011 |

The IU East Center for Leadership Development is hosting a free workshop on “What’s Your Financial IQ?” from 5-6:30 p.m. on Thursday, November 10. The workshop will be held in the Community Room, located in Whitewater Hall. Light refreshments will be served. In today’s world it is more important than ever to understand how economic ...

November 7, 2011 |

Indiana University East distributed scholarships to area high school guidance counselors from Indiana and Ohio during its annual Counselors’ Breakfast held November 3 in Whitewater Hall. “It is our responsibility to lead the region as the premier baccalaureate and master’s public institution in eastern Indiana and western Ohio,” said Chancellor Nasser Paydar. “It is a ...

October 31, 2011 |

Indiana University East announced the Top Eleven Award and Purchase Award recipients during the Whitewater Valley Annual Art Competition reception held October 26. This year’s competition was juried by Katherine Sherwood, a professor at UC Berkeley in the art department and the Disability Studies Program. The competition accepts entries from artists throughout a 300-mile radius ...