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 »
Each year, dozens of high-level government officials travel 4,500 miles from Brazil to Indiana for specialized leadership training hosted by IU Executive Education and the O’Neill School of Public and Environmental Affairs. Lyvan Bispo dos Santos attended the program in 2018. Now, he serves as an attorney for Brazil and is the legal coordinator for… Read more »
The O’Neill School of Public and Environmental Affairs at IUPUI has received its highest ranking for Public Affairs in nearly two decades from U.S. News & World Report. The school also was recognized for six specialty rankings, the most ever for the Indianapolis campus. Among 269 Public Affairs schools ranked nationwide, O’Neill Indianapolis moved up… Read more »
Chris Daley was searching for a program to support leaders in child and family welfare agencies around Indiana. “The people who run child and family welfare agencies get into the work because they want to do good in the world,” he says. “But they don’t always have the leadership training necessary to take themselves or… Read more »
To learn more about the Washington Leadership Program, visit the O’Neill IUPUI website at this link. Applications are open for the fall 2023 and spring 2024 cohorts, with the next application deadline of February 24, 2023. Written by: Grant Colestock, O’Neill IUPUI Public Safety Management major and Washington Leadership Program alumnus In fall 2022, I… Read more »
