From the Desk of Chancellor Charles R. Bantz

Dear Colleagues: At the Indiana University Board of Trustees meeting today, the Trustees approved the tuition rates and budgets for the coming biennium. The new rates can be found on Friday, July 17 at www.osas.iupui.edu.

The budget plan for the 2009-10 academic year contains spending restrictions including the budget line for each newly vacated biweekly and professional position will be cut by 50% and each unit’s FY10 general fund travel budget will be cut by 50%. Additional specific information will be forthcoming in the near future. Information on budgets will be sent to schools and units shortly.

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Budget Plan Restricts Spending, Yet Meets Key Academic Goals

The Indiana University Board of Trustees today (July 16) adopted a budget plan for the 2009-10 academic year that includes several belt-tightening measures but still allows for increases in student financial aid on all campuses and provides funding to fill more than 100 faculty positions deemed critical to the university's academic mission.

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Morrison Named Vice President for Capital Projects and Facilities

Indiana University President Michael A. McRobbie today (July 16) announced that he has appointed Thomas A. Morrison to the newly created position of vice president for capital projects and facilities.

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RFID Research Paper Recognized by AAMI

The Association for the Advancement of Medical Instrumentation (AAMI) recently honored an IUPUI professor and fellow researchers for their work on adapting radio frequency identification (RFID) technology to a clinical application.

Barbara Christe, program director of biomedical engineering technology at Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis (IUPUI), along with colleagues and IUPUI student researchers, received AAMI's 2008 Outstanding Management & Technology Paper award.

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Back-To-School Supplies Benefit Drive

For thousands of children in Indianapolis, the first day of school will be long on excitement but short on supplies. A program called BackPack Attack was created 10 years ago to assist with the collection of necessary school supplies. The 2009 goal is to provide a half million supplies to the children of Indianapolis and IPS. The drive runs through Aug. 7, 2009. For additional information, contact Marty Posch at mposch@iupui.edu or go online to: http://www.iupui.edu/outreach/community/programs/bpa/.

Woodrow Wilson Teaching Fellows

Governor Mitch Daniels, center front row, IUPUI Executive Vice Chancellor Uday Sukhatme, to the immediate right of the governor, Pat Rogan, Executive Associate Dean of the IU School of Education at IUPUI, far left, front row, Kim Nguyen, UCASE Operations Director, second from left, front row, and IUPUI Woodrow Wilson Teaching Fellows, at a luncheon Friday honoring the fellows and Teach for America Corps and the Indianapolis Teaching Fellows.

Fall Yoga Registration Set for August

Student Design Show Set for September

New Tuition Rates Are Below Higher Education Commission Guidelines

Indiana University trustees today (July 16) approved tuition and fee rates for the 2009-10 and 2010-11 academic years that are in keeping with all guidelines set by the Indiana Commission for Higher Education.

The new fee schedule calls for in-state undergraduate tuition and fees to go up by 4.6 percent this year and 4.8 percent next year at IU Bloomington and Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis. At IU's five regional campuses, in-state undergraduate tuition will go up 4.4 and 4.6 percent respectively in the next two years.

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Nominations Still Open for Irwin Excellence Award

IUPUI faculty and staff have about two weeks left to submit nominations for the Glenn W. Irwin, Jr. M.D. Experience Excellence Recognition Award which honors faculty and staff members for service "above and beyond the call of duty." The deadline for nominations is 5 p.m. on Aug. 7, 2009.

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Schnabel is Named Interim VP for Research

Indiana University President Michael A. McRobbie today (July 16) announced that Informatics Dean Robert B. Schnabel will serve as interim vice president for research while a search continues to permanently fill the position.

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Indiana Reflects National Trend as Geography Literacy Declines

A study in the Journal of Geography reports that despite increased support for K-12 geography education over a 15-year period, geography knowledge among Indiana college freshmen has not improved.

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Former IUPUI Professor Becomes China's Top Foreign Exchange Regulator

A former assistant professor of economics at IUPUI has become chief of China's State Administration of Foreign Exchange. Yi Gang retains his position as a vice-governor of the People's Bank of China.

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