INDIANA UNIVERSITY SOUTH BEND 2003 - 2005 BULLETIN

 

Indiana University South Bend

 

General Information

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

Mission Statement

Indiana University South Bend provides a learning and working environment that attracts and retains students, faculty, and staff; fully develops and challenges individual talents throughout the community; encourages free and spirited collaboration; and maintains a commitment to quality, integrity, and academic freedom.

Commitments

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.

To the Community

  •  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.

To Faculty and Staff

  •  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.

Campus Goals and Priorities

To fulfill these commitments and achieve our common aspirations, Indiana University South Bend has identified six major goals to serve as priorities for planning and development in the coming decade. Working with a wide range of constituencies, we will strive to:

  •  Foster student learning, access, and success;

  •  Encourage and maintain academic excellence;

  •  Strengthen partnerships with the community;

  •  Enhance diversity in the curriculum, classroom, and campus;

  •  Reflect and expand a global perspective; and

  •  Heighten the recognition of Indiana University South Bend’s resources and achievements on and beyond the campus.

 

The University That Educates Michiana

 

Indiana University South Bend (IUSB) was founded in its pastoral setting along the St. Joseph River more than 40 years ago. Like the river itself, IUSB is a focal point for the region. Nearly a dozen north central Indiana and southwestern Michigan counties within a 50-mile radius look to the campus for academic and professional programs and for community services.

 

IUSB offers leading-edge instructional programs and outstanding technological facilities, laboratories, and lecture halls. The faculty has earned respect among Indiana University campuses for its aggressive pursuit of excellence in teaching and in research. More than 90 percent of the full-time faculty have earned the highest degrees in their disciplines.

 

With effective teaching as a top priority, the 271 full-time faculty members have garnered multiple teaching and research awards. These faculty benefit students directly by actively supporting undergraduate and graduate research and by involving students in research. Faculty members benefit the Michiana community through numerous outreach activities.

 

IUSB students are also a valuable asset to the region. The campus welcomes and provides support services and academic programs for beginning, transfer, and returning adult students seeking to complete a university degree. The IUSB student body is rich in diversity, including over 250 international students. The work of student interns in the community is complemented by the services of hundreds of students in education, dental education and hygiene, nursing, social work, sociology, psychology, women's studies, business and economics, and public and environmental affairs programs, who consult with community businesses and agencies on field projects as part of their academic studies. In fact, IUSB students can be found in volunteer positions and involved in service projects throughout the Michiana area.

 

The Schurz Library, IUSB's Bureau of Business and Economic Research, the Entrepreneurship Program, the Institute for Applied Community Research, and the Center for Community and Institutional Research all represent portals to IUSB's vast array of informational and scholarly resources. More than 9,000 area residents a year also take advantage of IUSB's continuing education programs that meet their personal goals and employment needs.

 

The Toradze Piano Studio represents only a fraction of the cultural foundation that IUSB provides for the Michiana region. Each year IUSB students and faculty and their partners reach 25,000 children through programs on campus and programs that extend into schools and community institutions. The campus also sponsors numerous lectures and other cultural events which are open to the public.

 

The Art Gallery and the Student Activities Center are the latest milestones in a long-standing effort to enrich the campus environment. These resources and the Schurz Library allow IUSB to respond to the needs of a student body of 7,400 and an alumni body of 23,000.

 

Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action

Office: Administration Building, 248C

Telephone: (574) 237-4384

 

Internet Address: www.iusb.edu/~aaoffice/

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 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.

 

Accreditation

 

IUSB is accredited for its undergraduate and graduate programs by the Higher Learning Commission and is a member of the North Central Association (NCA), 30 North LaSalle Street, Suite 2400, Chicago, Illinois, 60602-2504, (800) 621-7440. The 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 programs 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 Association for the Advancement of Collegiate Schools of Business (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.

 

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. 20036-4800, (202) 872-4589.

 

Division of Nursing and Health Professions

Dental Hygiene Programs

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 60611-2678, (312) 440-4653.

School of Nursing

The School of Nursing is accredited by the Commission on Collegiate Nursing Education (CCNE), One Dupont Circle, North West, Suite 530, Washington, D.C. 20036-1135, (202) 887-6791; 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.

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 Public and Environmental Affairs

The School of Public and Environmental Affairs is accredited by the National Association of Schools of Public Affairs and Administration, 1120 G Street, North West, Suite 730, Washington, D.C. 20005-3801, (202) 628-8965.

 

School of Social Work

The School of Social Work is accredited by The Council on Social Work Education (CSWE), 1600 Duke Street, Suite 300, Alexandria, Virginia 22314-3421, (703) 683-8099, fax (703) 683-8095.