Polls in Indiana are open on November 3, 2020, Election Day, from 6 a.m. until 6 p.m. To find Election Day polling sites in your area, visit indianavoters.org. As soon as early voting opened in Marion County, a line began to snake around the City-County Building in downtown Indianapolis. Despite having more than 650,000… Read more »
Civic Leadership
Election 2020: O’Neill students work to register, educate, and help voters
This election season has been different than years past for Kylie Dunlap. The O’Neill Civic Leadership major also works as a civic engagement assistant with IUPUI’s Division of Student Affairs. For the past two years, Kylie has worked hard to register other students to vote, lead events like IUPUI’s March to the Polls, planned debate… Read more »
O’Neill’s My Community, My Vision Fellows help youth groups improve their communities
As two teenage girls stood before the Batesville, Indiana, city council, they waited to make their case for funding. They were part of the Batesville Mayor’s Youth Council and that meeting would determine whether they had to go back to the drawing board on their public art project. In the crowd that evening was Stacy… Read more »
Internship leads to scholarship, job in Indiana legislature for O’Neill student
As his patient settled into the chair, Luis Niño retrieved the tools of his trade. In 2017, he was still an optician—a job he took after unexpectedly leaving college six years earlier. He knew it wouldn’t be his final career but he wasn’t sure where to go next. He began to fit a new… Read more »
Hudnut Scholarship provides “golden ticket” for O’Neill students
Jared McDonald didn’t pursue many scholarships before he began his college career. He only applied for a handful prior to his freshman year with the O’Neill School as a Civic Leadership major. “I thought I probably didn’t meet the requirements,” he recalls. It was a nudge from faculty that would make him take another… Read more »
