Fast facts

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• The Lake Family Institute on Faith and Giving has been established at the IU Center on Philanthropy in Indianapolis as a center for exploration of the links between religion and philanthropy and how spiritual values influence philanthropic action. The institute will be funded through a gift from the family of the late Thomas H. and Marjorie Lytle Lake, who were civic and philanthropic leaders of the Indianapolis community.

http://www.philanthropy.iupui.edu/nr-LakeInstitute.htm

• In 1945, IU’s Post-War Planning Committee of Industrial Relations suggested that the university “broaden its offerings off campus, particularly with the view of meeting the demands for workers’ education, foremanship training and education of trade union officials.” Today, IU’s Division of Labor Studies operates on six state campuses and is one of the largest programs of its type in the nation. (See related story, A5)

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• During the past three years, 617 four-year colleges and universities in 49 states have used the National Survey of Student Engagement, headquartered at IU Bloomington, to glean information about the academic experience from their students. NSSE’s results represent more than half of the nation’s full-time undergraduate students at four-year campuses. Read the 2002 overview:

http://www.indiana.edu/~nsse/html/details.shtml

• IU Bloomington has medievalists on the faculty of 14 departments in the College of Arts and Sciences and the School of Music. The Medieval Studies Institute, founded in 1961, is a center for the study of medieval cultures from the 5th to the 15th centuries. The Lilly Library serves as an invaluable resource, containing manuscripts and pages ranging from Anglo-Saxon and Arabic to Latin Psalters. The campus hosted the 41st Midwest Medieval History Conference Oct. 26-27.

http://mmhc.slu.edu/