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Political Stress Support Group
Next meeting Oct. 23, 2024

Counseling and Psychological Services is hosting a free support group for students to help navigate the stress from current events and election season. Email capsindy@iu.edu to attend the next meeting. Learn more.

Community Over Commercialization | International Open Access Week Challenge
Oct. 21 to 27, 2024
Online workshop

Asynchronously explore tools and resources for a community-first, open approach to knowledge sharing. Each day focuses on a key tool or topic to enhance the impact and visibility of your research. Participants should be able to read and complete the activity in about 20 minutes. Presented by IU Indianapolis University Library. Learn more.

How Black Women Funded the Civil Rights Movement
Oct. 24, 2024, at 5 to 8 p.m.
Madam Walker Legacy Center

Dr. Tanisha Ford will present a keynote lecture about her NAACP Image Award-winning book Our Secret Society: Mollie Moon and the Glamour, Money, and Power Behind the Civil Rights Movement, chronicling the story of a Black woman socialite who raised significant amounts of money for the Civil Rights Movement through fashion shows. Following the lecture, Dr. Ford and Dr. Tyrone McKinley Freeman will discuss fundraising and activism across American history and current challenges faced by Black women and Black-led nonprofits doing liberation work. Presented by Lilly School of Philanthropy. Free and open to the public. Register now.

Intersection of Health Care and Mass Incarceration | IHLR Symposium
Oct. 25, 2024, at 9:30 a.m. to 3:45 p.m.
McKinney School of Law room 100

Hall Center for Law and Health Indiana Health Law Review annual symposium. Featuring keynotes from Dr. Sandra M. Springer, MD, Yale School of Medicine infectious disease unit, and Dr. Patricia Blair, PhD, University of Texas School of Nursing. CEUs available. CLEs pending approval. Lunch provided with registration. Free for students. Register now.

New Understandings of Transatlantic Narratives
Oct. 25, 2024, at 1:30 p.m.
Webinar

Scholars explore the legacy of African diasporic ruptures, loss, trauma and resistance. Featuring IU Indianapolis researchers Dr. Ronda C. Henry, Dr. Jennifer Thorington Springer, and Dr. Jason Kelly, with special guests Dr. Emmanual Saboro, of University of Cape Coast, and Dr. Warren Harding of SUNY Binghamton. Free and open to the public. Register now.

Election Day
Nov. 5, 2024, at 6 a.m. to 6 p.m.
Your voting center

All registered Marion County voters can vote at any Vote Center on Election Day, including the IU Indianapolis University Library Ashby Browsing Room. More info.

Tunnel of Awareness
Nov. 6 to 8, 2024
IU Indianapolis Campus Center

Tunnel of Oppression is now Tunnel of Awareness. New name, but same great interactive theatre experience featuring student-researched scenes presented by professional actors to foster discussion. Themes include repatriation of indigenous artifacts, incarceration as modern-day slavery, youth displaced by war, and language barriers in health care.

Each day is a new experience:

Poster Day: Nov. 6 at 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. in Campus Center 405
Tunnel of Awareness Screenings: Nov. 7 in Campus Center Theater
Service Day: Nov. 8 at 10 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.

Still free and open to the public. Register now.

Tiffany Jewell at IU Indianapolis
Nov. 12, 2024, at 6 p.m.
Madam Walker Legacy Center ballroom

Antiracist Montessori educator Tiffany Jewell is a biracial, first-generation American and author of Everything I Learned About Racism I Learned in School and The Antiracist Kid. CEUs available. Free food. Free and open to the public. Register now.

MLK Celebration Dinner
Jan. 19, 2025, at 6 to 8 p.m.
Indiana Roof Ballroom

Save the Date for the 56th Annual Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. Celebration Dinner. This year, we honor Dr. King’s legacy with the theme “Roots & Rhythm: Echoes of Liberation and Soul.” Additional details forthcoming, including speaker and ticketing. Contact Dr. Idalia Wilmoth at ldwilmot@iu.edu with inquiries.

Opportunities

Grant available for faculty eradicating disparities

Mellon Emerging Faculty Leaders Award is structured to free the time of junior faculty who have passed their midpoint tenure review -- including those from underrepresented groups and others committed to eradicating disparities in their fields -- so that they can both engage in and build support systems, networks, and affinity groups that make their fields and campuses more inclusive. $20,000 stipend award. Administered by Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation. Due Dec. 1. Read more.

Digital justice grants available

Digital Justice Seed Grants promote and provide resources for projects that diversify the digital domain, advance justice and equity in digital scholarly practice, and/or contribute to public understanding of racial and social justice issues. This program especially supports projects that engage with the interests and histories of people of color and other historically marginalized communities. Funding up to $25,000. Administered by American Council of Learned Societies. Due Dec. 3. Read more.

LGBTQ+ advocacy and leadership award

Are you an IU student who advocates for LGBTQ+ people and issues? Are you interested in developing leadership skills in this area? If so, you may qualify for funding to attend or lead a workshop, seminar, or conference to build leadership and advocacy skills. Read more.

Strategic Engagement employment positions

IU School of Medicine is looking for dynamic leaders to fill three newly created positions as Vice Chair of Strategic Engagement. This is a unique chance to drive transformative initiatives at one of the nation’s leading medical schools. These roles are available in the following departments:

Innovative Research to Advance Racial Equity grant

Evidence for Action prioritizes research to evaluate specific interventions (e.g., policies, programs, practices) that have the potential to counteract the harms of structural and systemic racism and improve health, well-being, and equity outcomes. Administered by Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. Applications accepted on rolling basis. Read more.

Call for Proposals: Disability and/or higher education presentations

The Indiana Association of Higher Education and Disability is requesting proposals for monthly webinars. These webinars will last one hour. Proposals considered on monthly basis. Read more.

Resources

Important information for registered voters

Early voting is happening now! Find a location here.
Vote-by-mail and absentee applications must be submitted by Oct. 24, at 11:59 p.m. Download the application.
Election day is Tuesday, Nov. 5. All registered Marion County voters can vote at any Vote Center on Election Day, including the IU Indianapolis University Library Ashby Browsing Room from 6 a.m. to 6 p.m. More info.
Regardless of how you vote, you can find out who and what is on your ballot, and make a plan to vote.

Campus Conflict and Conversation Help Desk
American Association of Colleges and Universities

Institute for Democracy & Higher Education is teaming up with the Sustained Dialogue Institute to host a free help desk for educators and practitioners on campuses with timely advice when faced with difficult, confounding, threatening, and other conflicts and challenging conversations. All inquiries are confidential. Submit an inquiry.

Free Expression and Inclusion: Guide for Discussion Organizers and Facilitators
American Association of Colleges and Universities

How do we create campus learning environments where both ideas and people thrive? What are the best approaches to protecting speech while simultaneously creating inclusive learning environments? This new guide helps students and other members of the campus community discuss and shape community norms that are conducive to learning, not for a few but for everyone. Download now.

DEI legislation tracker
Chronicle of Higher Education

The Chronicle is tracking legislation that would prohibit colleges from having diversity, equity, and inclusion offices or staff; ban mandatory diversity training; prohibit institutions from using diversity statements in hiring and promotion; or prohibit colleges from using race, sex, color, ethnicity, or national origin in admissions or employment. Read more.

News

U.S. District Court temporarily blocks Indiana’s ‘Buffer Law’
FOX 59

The injunction claims the “Buffer Law,” which empowers police to order bystanders to remain more than 25 feet away from them, “does not define with any specificity the kind of conduct that would prompt an order to move back.” The court also contended that the “Buffer Law” contains “no standards for law enforcement officers to follow in enforcing the law, leaving it susceptible to arbitrary and discretionary enforcement.” Read more.

When DEI is gone: Fallout at one Texas university
ABC News

At the University of Texas-Austin, the legislation led to resource cancellations, office closures, and staff firings -- pushing some students to create alternatives to their school’s defunct diversity programs. Read more.

College applicants avoid entire states because of their politics
USA Today

More than a quarter of college applicants avoid schools in states that don’t align with their politics -- both liberal and conservative -- a survey from the Art & Science Group reveals. Read more.

IU alumna awarded MacArthur ‘Genius’ Fellowship
IU Indianapolis Today

Alice Wong, a graduate of the IU School of Liberal Arts in Indianapolis, is among the 2024 MacArthur Fellows. Wong is a writer, editor and disability justice activist. Read more.

Latine Faculty and Staff Taskforce Report
IU Indianapolis

Some of the key takeaways include increasing Latine representation and leadership in our activities, creating opportunities for recognition, providing professional development opportunities, and creating spaces and places for social connection. Read more.

IU Indianapolis honored for diversity and inclusion

Our campus received the 2024 Higher Education Excellence in Diversity Award from Insight Into Diversity, the country’s largest, oldest and most respected national diversity and inclusion publication in higher education. We are proud to be one of a handful of campuses to receive the award each year it has been offered. Learn more.

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