Indiana University South Bend is a comprehensive public university offering a post-secondary education through the masters level.

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Indiana University pledges to continue its commitment to the achievement of equal opportunity within the university and throughout American society as a whole. In this regard, Indiana University will recruit, hire, promote, educate, and provide services to persons based upon their individual qualifications. Indiana University prohibits discrimination based on arbitrary consideration of such characteristics as age, color, disability, ethnicity, gender, marital status, national origin, race, religion, sexual orientation, or veteran status.
Indiana University shall take affirmative action, positive and extraordinary, to overcome the discriminatory effects of traditional policies and procedures with regard to the disabled, minorities, women, and Vietnam-era veterans.
The Affirmative Action Office monitors the university’s policies and assists individuals who have questions or problems related to discrimination.
 

To fulfill this mission, Indiana University South Bend pledges the following:

To Students and Alumni

• Prepare students to be successful in their chosen professions, valued citizens and leaders within their communities, individually enriched by their studies and the spirit of discovery.
• Provide and maintain academic programs of depth, quality, and value that challenge the abilities of all students.
• Develop and maintain a student-centered environment, focusing academic programs, policies, procedures, scheduling, and planning on how best to serve students.
• Attract and sustain a student body that reflects the diversity of the community.
• Create a learning environment that serves the academic, civic, cultural, and career needs of an educated citizen within the global community.
• Provide support services that maximize student and alumni opportunities for success.
• Promote awareness of the excellence of Indiana University South Bend programs, alumni, and service.

• Develop a workforce which possesses an educational foundation that enables continued growth intellectually and professionally.
• Provide graduates with an education relevant to the cultural, economic, and political life of the greater community.
• Provide life-long learning opportunities for professional development and personal enrichment.
• Be a committed partner in the community through programs and service.
• Enhance the economic growth of the region through business, labor, government, and civic partnerships.
• Promote a climate of inquiry which expands the intellectual resources of the community.

• Support scholarship and creative activity that expands knowledge of our world and the community.
• Recruit and retain an outstanding and diverse faculty and staff.
• Encourage, support, and reward education and professional growth of all employees.
• Develop and maintain a campus environment which welcomes and nurtures all; and is intolerant of bigotry, harassment, moral turpitude, and incompetence.
• Support compensation which is free from bias.

 

Indiana University South Bend (IUSB) provides nearly 100 academic programs at the certificate, associate, bachelor’s and master's level. The university recognizes teaching as its highest priority and is known for its outstanding faculty. The percentage of IUSB faculty who have won distinguished teaching awards is the highest of any IU campus. More than 90 percent of IUSB's full-time faculty have earned the highest degrees in their disciplines from many of the world's finest graduate schools.

Centrally located in northern Indiana, IUSB's campus overlooks a picturesque stretch of the St. Joseph River, east of downtown South Bend. A pedestrian mall running through the center of campus is surrounded by modern classrooms and science laboratories, spacious auditoriums and studios for the fine and performing arts, a library holding more than 880,000 volumes with access to hundreds of electronic journals and other resources, extensive audiovisual facilities, and links to computer and instructional-television systems serving the entire IU system. By mid-2001, the university will open a new student activities center. Plans also call for expansion across the river for athletic facilities and student housing.

Most of IUSB's more than 7,000 students commute to campus with only limited housing available for a growing number of international students. Students range in age from late teens to 40s, 50s, and beyond. Classes are scheduled from the morning through the evening hours, allowing students to build schedules appropriate to the demands of work or other personal obligations. Fall semester runs from late August until mid-December, spring semester from early January to early May, and three overlapping summer sessions run for six to eight weeks from mid-May through mid-August. The development of off-campus sites by IUSB has extended the university’s reach to better serve the region and to increase access to educational opportunities.

IUSB's community outreach activities positively impact the local economy, schools, the arts, public safety, and health professions. With annual continuing education enrollments exceeding 9,000, IUSB is the region's primary resource for life-long learning and the strongest source of skill development training for local businesses.

While every effort is made to provide accurate and current information within this Bulletin, IUSB reserves the right to change rules, policies, fees, curricula, courses, and other programs described herein, to reflect faculty or administrative action. It is your responsibility to schedule regular meetings with your academic advisor and to be knowledgeable about university requirements, academic regulations, and calendar deadlines specified in the IUSB Undergraduate Bulletin, Schedule of Classes and academic unit publications.
 

IUSB is accredited for its undergraduate and graduate programs by the North Central Association of Colleges and Schools (NCA) through the Commission on Institutions of Higher Education, 30 North LaSalle Street, Suite 2400, Chicago, Illinois 60602-2504, (800) 621-7440. NCA is a voluntary certification agency made up of member institutions in 19 states. Its credentials are accepted on an equal basis by similar agencies in other parts of the United States and in foreign countries.

The following academic units are additionally accredited by national agencies and organizations pertinent to their respective disciplines:

SCHOOL OF BUSINESS AND ECONOMICS
The School of Business and Economics is accredited by The International Association for Management Education (AACSB), 600 Emerson Road, Suite 300, St. Louis, Missouri, 63141-6762, (314) 872-8481.

DIVISION OF CONTINUING EDUCATION
The Montessori Teacher Academy is affiliated with the American Montessori Society (AMS). Montessori Teacher Academy courses hold accreditation through the Montessori Accreditation Commission for Teacher Education (MACTE), University of Wisconsin-Parkside, Tallent Hall, Room 236, 900 Wood Road, Box 2000, Kenosha, Wisconsin 53141-2000, (414) 595-3332.

DIVISION OF DENTAL EDUCATION
The IUSB Dental Assisting and Dental Hygiene Programs are accredited by the American Dental Association Commission on Dental Accreditation, 211 East Chicago Avenue, Chicago, Illinois 60611, (312) 440-4653.

SCHOOL OF EDUCATION
The School of Education is accredited by the National Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education (NCATE), 2010 Massachusetts Avenue Northwest, Suite 500, Washington, D.C. 20036-1018, (202) 466-7496. The Commission on Teacher Training and Licensing of the Indiana Professional Standards Board has approved all IUSB teacher education programs.

COLLEGE OF LIBERAL ARTS AND SCIENCES
The Department of Chemistry’s Bachelor of Science degree is accredited by the American Chemical Society, 1155 Sixteenth Street, Northwest, Washington, D.C. 20036, (202) 872-4589.

SCHOOL OF NURSING
The School of Nursing is accredited by the National League for Nursing Accrediting Commission, 61 Broadway, FL33, New York, New York 10006-2802, (212) 363-5555, x153; and the Indiana State Board of Nursing, Health Professions Bureau, Indiana Government Center South, 402 West Washington Street, 041, Indianapolis, Indiana 46204-2758, (317) 232-2960.

DIVISION OF PUBLIC AND ENVIRONMENTAL AFFAIRS
The Division of Public and Environmental Affairs is accredited by the National Association of Schools of Public Affairs and Administration, 1120 G Street, Northwest, Suite 730, Washington, D.C. 20005, (202) 628-8965.

RADIOGRAPHY PROGRAM
The Radiography Program is accredited by the Joint Review Committee on Education in Radiologic Technology, 20 North Wacker Drive, Suite 900, Chicago, Illinois 60606-2901, (312) 704-2901.

SCHOOL OF SOCIAL WORK
The School of Social Work is accredited by The Council on Social Work Education (CWSE), 1600 Duke Street, Suite 300, Alexandria, Virginia 22314-3421, (703) 683-8099.