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Indiana University South Bend
General Information
Indiana University South Bend is a comprehensive public university offering postsecondary 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 is the third largest of the eight Indiana University campuses. The campus offers more than 100 academic programs at the undergraduate and graduate levels. Over 7,500 undergraduate and graduate students enroll in these programs. This student body is rich in diversity, including a mix of traditional and adult students and over 200 international students.
IU South Bend offers leading-edge instructional programs and outstanding technological facilities, laboratories, and lecture halls. With 290 full-time faculty, IU South Bend is proud of its teaching record and works to improve its teaching with on-going assessment and professional development. IU South Bend is developing new academic programs and new strengths in interdisciplinary inquiry, linking disciplines and students with professions that will advance research, professional service, and learning. IU South Bend aspires to be a model for public comprehensive Masters I institutions.
The IU South Bend campus borders the St. Joseph River and like the river, IU South Bend 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. Academic partnerships are in place with Ivy Tech Community College and other area community colleges to ensure smooth transitions between the two-year institutions and IU South Bend.
IU South Bend is accredited by the Higher Learning Commission. Individual schools and academic programs are also accredited. For example, the School of Business and Economics is accredited by AACSB International –The Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business. The School of Education is accredited by the National Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education, the School of Nursing by the Commission on Collegiate Nursing Education, the Dental Hygiene Program by the American Dental Association Commission on Dental Accreditation, and the Radiography Program by the Joint Review Committee on Education in Radiologic Technology. The School of Social Work is accredited by the Council on Social Work Education and the School of Public and Environmental Affairs is accredited by the National Association of Schools of Public Affairs and Administration.
IU South Bend has over 26,000 alumni and an active alumni relations program to serve the growing IU South Bend campus. Two-thirds of the alumni live and work in the Michiana area. The rest find their homes in all fifty states and in far-flung places such as Australia, India, Indonesia, Kenya, Malaysia, Rawanda, Singapore, and Thailand.
Equal Opportunity/Affirmative Action
Office: Administration Building 248C
Telephone: (574) 520-4384
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 veterans.
The Affirmative Action Office monitors the university’s policies and assists individuals who have questions or problems related to discrimination.
Accreditation
IU South Bend 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 Higher Learning Commission 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 AACSB International –The Association to Advance Collegiate Schools of Business, 777 South Harbour Island Boulevard, Suite 750, Tampa, Florida 33602-5730, (813) 769-6500.
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), 506 Seventh Street, Racine, Wisconsin 53403-1128, (262) 898-1846.
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 IU South Bend 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 (ACS), 1155 Sixteenth Street-Northwest, Washington, D.C. 20036-4800, (800) 227-5558.
Division of Nursing and Health Professions
Dental Hygiene Programs
The IU South Bend Dental Assisting and Dental Hygiene Programs are accredited by the American Dental Association Commission on Dental Accreditation (CDA), 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-Northwest, Suite 530, Washington, D.C. 20036-1135, (202) 887-6791; and the Indiana State Board of Nursing, Health Professions Bureau, 402 West Washington Street, Room W066, Indianapolis, Indiana 46204-2298, (317) 234-2043.
Radiography Program
The Radiography Program is accredited by the Joint Review Committee on Education in Radiologic Technology (JRCERT), 20 North Wacker Drive, Suite 2850, Chicago, Illinois 60606-3182, (312) 704-5300.
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 (NASPAA), 1120 G Street-Northwest, 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), 1725 Duke Street, Suite 500, Alexandria, Virginia 22314-3457, (703) 683-8080.
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