Mission Statment
The Institute of Social Research at Indiana University was founded in 1963 by the Chair of the Department of Sociology, Karl F. Schuessler. Since that time, it has been a center of excellence for high-quality faculty research, an important venue for the training of graduate students in Sociology, and the home of several successful research centers and projects (Center for Survey Research, Indiana Consortium for Mental Health Services Research, Center for Education and Society, Sociological Research Practicum). In 2001, the Institute began offering a series of intensive summer workshops in qualitative and quantitative methods to bring advanced training in social science research methods to the Bloomington campus. In 2003, the Institute was renamed the Karl F. Schuessler Institute for Social Research, in honor of its founder.
