Photo by Chris Meyer
Join folklorist Henry Glassie
and historian Eric Sandweiss for IU Home Pages’ first
" Conversation online"
of the season. Read, too, about IU’s involvement in the
inaugural Main Street conference
in Madison, home of one of three National Trust pilot
programs to revitalize America’s traditional commercial
areas.
State
of the University 2004
Strengthening
the foundations for distinction
Additional top stories
Peter Friedericks traveled from Tanzania to begin his freshman
year on the Bloomington campus, but IU is no stranger to him,
nor is Friedericks a stranger to the institution; he received
his diploma from IU High School this past spring. Read about
his first few weeks in Indiana.
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Grade inflation has been a topic
in the academy since the 19th century. Does it really exist?
While faculty tend to see inflation as prevalent, they perceive
it as a problem far less in their own department and even
less so in their very own classroom.
Nearly 60 years ago, Willis Barnstone wrote his first poem—in
the room at Bowdoin College once inhabited by Nathaniel Hawthorne.
In a new memoir from IU Press, Barnstone recounts stories
of his intellectual development and explores what he believes
to be the "parallel experiences" he, as a Jew, has shared
with African Americans.
MTV’s Rock the Vote bus made
a Hoosier stop on the IUPUI campus this month to inspire voter
registration. At IU South Bend and IU Kokomo, the American
Democracy Project is warming up.
The head of IU’s newly
named Research and Technology Corporation will keynote the
upcoming entrepreneurship conference at IU Kokomo. "Angel
investing"—when matches are made between Hoosier
entrepreneurs and investors—and other funding sources
for business ventures are among discussion topics Oct. 7.
It takes more than a
village
Conferences next month: " Village
Conversations: Building Kinship in Our Neighborhoods"
will explore issues of diversity from the perspective of
a predominantly white college campus, at IU Bloomington;
the Midwest Research to Practice
Conference for adult education practitioners, at IUPUI.
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