VCAA Newletter

Dear Colleagues,

Over the last several weeks the deans have been meeting with faculty and staff about the current and expected budget contraints. I appreciate the feedback and advice you have been providing. Your advice has been helpful to the deans and me as we begin to set contingency plans against possible revenue shortfalls. During the month of February, I will be working with the deans and the senate budget committee to maximize our fiscal flexibility. The guiding principle of any proposed budget is the continuance of academic integrity for our programs. We will make our recommendations to the chancellor and to the academic community by mid-March.

Amorous Relations: The Indiana University Academic Handbook has a change in policy concerning amorous relationships. This change is being presented to you simply for the sake of information. You can view the changes here . Dave Vollrath, President of the Faculty Senate, is aware of this change and will have the Faculty Senate address the issue and changes in wording for the IUSB Academic Handbook. IUSB's policy will be updated some time during the 2001- 2002 academic year.

Office of Student Persistence: Final Enrollment data is available for the STAY@IUSB Program. The data sheet indicates the total number of students referred for the Fall 2001 semester, the number of students referred that have registered for Spring 2002, total withdrawals, GPA analyses and total FN's.

STAY Referrals - Enrollment Data*

Spring 2002

Total Students Referred Fall 2001 371

Total Number Enrolled Spring 2002 as of 1/18/02 207

Percentage Enrolled Spring 2002 55.80%

Total Withdraws (T/W) Fall 2001 66

Number of Fall T/W Enrolled Spring 2002 12

Students Referred less T/W Not Enrolled (371-54) 317

Percentage Enrolled Spring 2002 (207/317) 65.30%

Students Registered for Spring 2002

Fall 2001 GPAs

103 Students Below 2.0 GPA 52.80%

92 Students Above 2.0 GPA 47.20%

Total Number of Students Referred with FNs 70

*for the STAY@IUSB Program referred students only

Project Team: The School of Education has been asked to join Project TEAM, a Bloomington-based initiative that encourages minority students to become teachers. This program uses a proven strategy to recruit and retain minority students in the teacher education program. Students receive generous scholarships, attend special honors seminars in education, and are supported throughout their academic career. Funding will allow recruitment and support of about 15 students per year, who will move through the program as a cohort.

Project TEAM was an SDI initiative that has now been supplemented by an Eisenhower grant and Dept. of Education funds. The project began in Bloomington, spread to IUPUI and Gary, and will add IUSB and IPFW this coming year.

Scholarship Website: I invite you to visit the IUSB Scholarship WEB SITE at www.iusb.edu/~scholars/ for the most up-to-date information about IUSB campus and academic unit scholarship opportunities. Campus scholarship applications are available at the admissions office and many of the scholarship applications can be printed from the web site. There are links to several national scholarship web sites and a list of Ten Top Scholarship Tips. Two scholarships may be of immediate interest to you. The Joseph L. and Julia B. Peyser Study Abroad Scholarship for undergraduate students was recently revised with input from the Peysers as well as Drs. Knowles, Rios, Robinson and Sernau (application deadline is March 1). And, The Chad Pearson Scholarship was recently funded by the parents of one of our former students (application deadline is Feb.28). I am grateful to Rose Marie Hangesbach for the outstanding work she has done as Director of Student Scholarships and to Tina Reimers who developed the web site.

ASSESSING QUALITY in HIGHER EDUCATION: I would like to pass on an invitation I recently received.

14TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE on ASSESSING QUALITY in HIGHER EDUCATION. JULY 22-24, 2002 at the University of Vienna, VIENNA, AUSTRIA

FEATURING invited speakers from Austria, the United Kingdom, and the United States Sponsored by: Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis

Hosted by: Caledonian Conferences, Scotland and the Institute for Interdisciplinary Studies at Austrian Universities

CONFERENCE TOPICS: Faculty/staff development for assessment, development of quality assurance policy, assessment of teaching and learning, the impact of quality assessment in the developing world, defining and assessing standards, performance indicators, and institutional effectiveness.

CALL FOR PROPOSALS: We invite proposals for posters, papers, workshops, and panel sessions by April 30, 2002. These 2-page proposals accompanied by a 250-word abstract will be refereed.

For additional information please consult our website: www.planning.iupui.edu http://www.planning.iupui.edu/

Lectures:

Steve Shore will be presenting the next Dean's Seminar this Friday, 15 February 2002. His talk is entitled "Interstellar Weather: You Don't Need a Weatherperson to Know Which Way the Wind Blows." We will gather at noon in the Board Room. Coffee will be available and you are welcome to bring your lunch.

Margaret Scanlan will be presenting her Research Award Lecture entitled "Literature and Terror" on Thursday, 7 March 2002 in Wiekamp Hall room 1001 at 7:00pm.

Kudos:

Brenda Knowles has been selected to receive the Wilbert Hites Mentoring Award. This award recognizes faculty with outstanding mentoring qualities. Brenda will accept the award at this year's Founders Day ceremony to be held in Bloomington on March 3. Congratulations to Brenda on this well-deserved recognition.

Les Lamon has been honored by the Indiana Center for History for the establishment of the Civil Rights Heritage Center and for his work in documenting and promoting the history of the civil rights movement in this area. Les received the Black History Award and cited as a champion of racial and social justice.

Best wishes,

Alfred J. Guillaume, Jr.
Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs