Fishers Mayor Scott Fadness is joining the Paul H. O’Neill School of Public and Environmental Affairs at IU Indianapolis as an associate faculty member for the fall 2024 semester, leading a course designed to help future leaders better understand what it means to be a public servant. Fadness—who earned his MPA with O’Neill in 2007—will… Read more »
The O’Neill School of Public and Environmental Affairs at IU Indianapolis is launching a new degree program to help grow leaders across the private, public, and nonprofit sectors. And it is the first new degree approved for IU Indianapolis. The newly launched Community and Organizational Leadership Studies program offers a bachelor’s degree, minor, and certificate… Read more »
In the nonprofit world, a leadership role is often something people grow into through experience rather than something they’ve been trained to do. Suzanne O’Malley says that’s something they see in the field of victim services. “People go into this field to help others,” she explains. “They don’t necessarily have management training or an educational… Read more »
For RaeVen Ridgell, civic engagement is both a way of life and a wonderful obligation. “I think it’s important for us to get involved because it’s our duty as members of society,” she explains. “This is our community, our state, our country, and our world. We cannot wait for others to save it; we have… Read more »
More than 20 years after leaving college to raise her family, O’Neill Lecturer Liz Wager went back to complete her degree. “The concept that higher education is not for everyone presents an ideology of inequity,” she says. “I initially failed at college as a first-generation student because I simply did not know what questions to… Read more »
