UIndy News

Read Indianapolis Star story Indiana Gov. Mike Pence gave his stamp of approval Wednesday when the fifth cohort of Woodrow Wilson Indiana Teaching Fellows was announced at the Statehouse. UIndy is one of just four universities in the state that offer the fellowship, an intensive one-year master’s degree program that prepares career changers and recent graduates to [...]

The 1860 presidential election – which sent Abe Lincoln to the White House and stoked the fires of Secession and Civil War – is widely considered the most important in our nation’s history. However, the conventional focus on the campaign between Republican Lincoln and Democrat Stephen Douglas ignores complexities in the story that reveal much [...]

A UIndy forensic anthropologist and her students will spend next week in Texas exhuming graves like this one as part of an ongoing effort to identify and repatriate the remains of people who die after crossing the border. Watch WTHR report So many undocumented migrants are turning up dead in rural Brooks County, Texas, that [...]

Hear Dr. Knapp on Inside Indiana Business A professor with extensive experience in project management and information technology has been named acting dean of the University of Indianapolis School of Business. Karl Knapp joined the UIndy faculty in 2006 and has been serving as an associate professor of business administration. Executive Vice President and Provost [...]

Speaking Saturday at UIndy’s Undergraduate Commencement, broadcaster and author Tavis Smiley (pictured above) challenged graduates to address the nation’s growing economic disparity, which he called a threat to democracy. “You have to have your own moral compass,” said Smiley, host of the nightly talk show Tavis Smiley on PBS and The Tavis Smiley Show from Public [...]

Nearly 1,280 students are earning diplomas this year as UIndy gears up for commencement exercises Friday and Saturday. A projected 849 students are eligible to walk in Saturday’s Undergraduate Commencement, which will feature an address by public broadcaster and author Tavis Smiley, named among “The World’s 100 Most Influential People” in 2009 by Time magazine. A [...]

Good news for graduates of UIndy’s College of Health Sciences: Occupational therapist and physical therapist rank among the Top 10 best jobs to hold in 2013, according to a new study reported by the Wall Street Journal. The outlook is even brighter for students in Actuarial Science — actuaries top the list. Employment website CareerCast.com has released its annual ranking [...]

As President Robert Manuel announced Wednesday, concerns about enrollment and revenue are forcing UIndy to phase out many of the programs at Indianapolis Athens College, more commonly known as the university’s “Athens Campus.” The Odyssey in Athens study-abroad program also will be discontinued after this summer. “The welfare of our Athens employees and students is our [...]

The 32nd edition of UIndy’s acclaimed Faculty Artist Concert Series will close Monday evening with a whirlwind musical tour of the 19th through 21st centuries. The free season finale concert begins at 7:30 p.m. in the Christel DeHaan Fine Arts Center’s Ruth Lilly Performance Hall with American composer Marc Mellits’ “Black” for two baritone saxophones. The program [...]

Spring graduates at the University of Indianapolis will hear words of wisdom from public broadcasting icon Tavis Smiley and recently retired United Way of Central Indiana President Ellen Annala. Annala will speak at UIndy’s Graduate Programs Commencement at 7:30 p.m. Friday, May 3, and will receive an honorary Doctor of Humanities degree. Smiley will deliver [...]