Stories from 2014

December 29, 2014 |

For Indiana University East the past year has brought many celebrations and accomplishments including breaking ground for a new building, record-breaking enrollment, opening Room 912, and adding new academic programs.  Here’s a look at the most memorable moments from 2014 for IU East. Most recently, IU East congratulated its director of the Campus Library Frances ...

December 22, 2014 |

Ross Alexander is the new dean of the Indiana University East School of Humanities and Social Sciences, beginning January 1, 2015. “Ross brings with him a wealth of knowledge, leadership and a solution oriented approach to the position of dean. As interim dean and associate vice chancellor, Ross has established a familiarity with the campus, ...

December 4, 2014 |

IU East students to perform with Choral Concert, Student Recital Richmond, Ind. — The public is invited to attend the annual Indiana University East Chorale Concert at 7 p.m. on Monday December 8, at Central United Methodist Church, located at 1425 E. Main Street. The Chorale Concert will feature IU East students and faculty performing ...

December 1, 2014 |

Nursing students from IU East stepped outside the campus and into different cultures during three recent real-world journeys. They immersed themselves into poverty, cultural diversity and community medicine in different areas of the United States. They presented papers, visited hospital and met with at-risk teenagers in England. They made eye-opening and life-changing discoveries that aren’t ...

November 28, 2014 |

Indiana University East was in pretty heady company when Tyler Kennedy considered coming to Richmond to earn a bachelor’s degree in mathematics. He applied to only two other places—MIT and Rose-Hulman—for studies in his eventual quest to become an actuarial. He loved the smaller campus here, the talented staff and the fact that he could ...

November 26, 2014 |

KANSAS CITY, Mo. – Indiana University East is one of 168 colleges and universities that will be recognized with an NAIA Champions of Character Five Star Award for the 2013-14 school year, the NAIA announced this fall. To receive the award, members scored 60 or more points on the NAIA Champions of Character Scorecard. IU ...

November 20, 2014 |

Indiana University East distributed scholarships to area high school guidance counselors from Indiana and Ohio during its annual Counselors’ Breakfast held November 20 in Whitewater Hall. This is the eighth consecutive year that IU East has hosted the Counselors’ Breakfast. Over 60 guidance counselors attended. This year’s theme centered on Rockefeller Center and New York ...

November 19, 2014 |

Piedad Llerena moves through life like a perpetual Christmas present: If you take off one wrapping, you’ll find another gift. Take off another wrapping, you’ll find another gift. And then another. And another. Her gifts are her passion, her perseverance and her positiveness. “She gives me such a lift,” says IU East Assistant Professor of ...

November 19, 2014 |

IU East welcomes new professional staff Richmond, Ind. — The Indiana University East welcomes new professional staff to campus this fall. Office of Admissions Hubie Branstetter, assistant director of admissions, primarily recruits and works with prospective students who are applying for admission to IU East, as well as assists parents and high school guidance counselors ...