IU Indiana Kids program Over the last year, mentors and staff at IU Northwest have grown a relationship with a student transitioning from high school to college. And that is exactly what the IU Indiana Kids program seeks to recreate. Program coordinator James Wallace first met the student as a high school senior last year…. Read more »
Building Strong Communities
IU South Bend had success in summer ’18 and is partnering with South Bend Cubs Foundation
IU Indiana Kids program A connection through baseball is helping grow a program meant for teens at IU South Bend. The IU Indiana Kids program is starting a new partnership with the South Bend Cubs Foundation and is recruiting the help of the IU South Bend baseball team to start an after-school program for students,… Read more »
INHP Education Courses at IUPUI
Indianapolis Neighborhood Housing Partnership (INHP) offers free classes open to IUPUI employees and the community who are interested in homeownership to financially prepare, improve credit and navigate the home-buying process. These classes held at IUPUI University Library are offered as part of INHP’s Anchor Housing partnership with IUPUI. If you can’t attend in-person, you… Read more »
Collaborations key to smart, resilient cities
By Amy Conrad Warner IUPUI Vice Chancellor Office of Community Engagement Urban communities across the nation are shocked and challenged when confronted with horrific violence like that which occurred on the Las Vegas strip, during a Texas church service, at a San Bernardino office party, in a Florida nightclub, at a school in Florida, and… Read more »
IUPUI and Indianapolis community schools professionals engage in national forum
In May, 2018, twelve Indianapolis school and community professionals, as well as IUPUI urban education doctoral students, attended the Community Schools National Forum in Baltimore, Maryland, to connect on the topic of community schools, an approach that engages entire neighborhoods to organize and align community resources to foster student success. This national forum welcomed a… Read more »
Family and Community Engagement and Why It Matters
By James Johnson, Guest Contributor Before I became a teacher, I never heard of community schools. I had no idea what they entailed and why they are so important. On the surface, community schools do not seem like they’re anything more than common sense. I mean, they are schools and communities working together to support… Read more »
“Voice of Hope in Turbulent Times,” A Profile of the Second Latinx Community-University Research Coalition Conference
Written by Cindy Gil Over 90 Latino community members, university stakeholders, and organizational partners gathered for the second Latinx Community-University Research Coalition conference on Tuesday, March 6, 2018. The conference provided opportunities for discussing, networking, collaborating and advancing future research, programming and advocacy on the well-being of Latino populations across Indiana. To start the day,… Read more »
IUPUI researchers and Citizens predict water demand using big data analytics and machine learning
From determining the value of your favorite baseball player to refining the holiday online shopping you’re doing in the other tab right now, the practice of big data analytics is everywhere. The field crunches thousands, millions or even billions of data points to better understand a problem in any field. The Data-Driven Knowledge Discovery Laboratory in the… Read more »