Indianapolis Neighborhood Housing Partnership will be on campus to provide free workshops on issues related to budgeting, credit and successful renting. Dollars and Sense Covers the basic principles of money management and budgeting to help you make the most of your income. Ideal for anyone managing a household budget. Thursday, September 13, 11:30 am… Read more »
IUPUI Anchor Housing Program has expanded boundaries and increased income limits
The IUPUI Anchor Housing program, designed to assist full-time employees with the purchase or improvement of a home in the neighborhoods around campus, has expanded geographic boundaries and increased income limits to qualify. For those who qualify, the program provides a five-year forgivable loan to IUPUI employees to purchase or repair a home within the… Read more »
What do we really mean when we use the word “Urban?”
By Yuri Smith, Guest Contributor I recently had the pleasure of reading an article titled, “Urban” Schooling and “Urban” Families: The Role of Context and Place,” by Vivian L. Gadsden1 and Ezekiel J. Dixon-Román. The article was in the Urban Education 2017, Vol. 52(4) 431–459. This article caught my attention because I grew up in… Read more »
Success Only Comes Before Work in the Dictionary
By Ranesha Lee, Guest Contributor Leadership has been defined as a role to lead transformative change of a school. The function of effective leadership is to provide direction and exercise influence (Leithwood, K.A. & Riehl C. 2003). Providing a school direction is imperative, but integrating with the community is just as vital. The community’s culture,… Read more »
Building School-Family Relationships
By Brian Collins, Guest Contributor During the Spring of 2018, I took Dr. Khaula Murtadha’s course, “Leadership for Urban School-Community Relationships (A510).” The focus of the course was to understand the tools my classmates and I needed to become community-engaged school leaders who work to best serve the academic and social interest and development of… Read more »
The Differently Abled, Conflict, and Parental Involvement
By Kyle Huskins, Guest Contributor People who are differently abled are in our society and they are in our school systems. These are people and children that are often forgotten, hidden, and are interacted with from an approach of deficit thinking. Culturally being “disabled” can take on its own connotations in varying cultures. In regards… Read more »
Critical Awareness for Equitable School Administration: Discipline
Lisa Clouse, Guest Contributor Einstein once said insanity is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting a different result. Research has often revealed issues in education grounded in history and exlusion that would benefit from change and, in essence, avoid the insanity of ineffective practice. This applies to many aspects of education… Read more »
Principals as Community Leaders
By Robin G. Jackson, Guest Contributor “What sense does it make to try to reform urban schools while the communities around them stagnate or collapse?” (Warren, 2005, p. 133). Schools and their immediate community are inextricably linked in many ways. In addition to there being youth and families represented within the school, and property taxes… Read more »