Many O’Neill students don’t remember when the twin towers fell. They don’t recall the brave passengers who took control of an airplane before it crashed it into a Pennsylvania field. Nor do they remember seeing the hole left in the Pentagon. After all, most of them were very young on September 11, 2001…. Read more »
The hardest conversations to have are often the most important. Yet it’s vital to face conflict, communicate across differences, and work through difficult situations. To help students learn how to do that, and make them more employable in the process, O’Neill’s Tamra Wright and her Intergroup Dialogue colleagues have developed the intergroup dialogue certificate,… Read more »
If Community Corps is SPEA’s division of community development specialists, then Marshawn Wolley is its general. And the general is on a mission. His mission began after several community development stakeholders approached SPEA, worried about the number of people pursuing community development jobs, the quality of that talent, and the field’s diversity. So Wolley got… Read more »
More than 900,000 people are expected to visit the Indiana State Fair during the next two weeks, with many lining up to watch this year’s center stage spectacle: the Big Top Circus. Much like what happens under that big top, most visitors will only see the magic of the fair and not the hard… Read more »
The campus of IUPUI may only be 20 miles from the Zionsville farm where Deirdre Kelley grew up, but it’s a world away from what she knew. Kelley lived out her childhood on a property with goats and chickens, homeschooled by her mother until textbooks became her teachers. “I thought it’d be really hard to… Read more »
