Indiana Alumni Magazine
Reflections of IU: Many Memories, One University
Since opening its doors in 1824, IU has been creating paths to discovery and accomplishment.
By Susan Moke
More than a hundred years ago, Indiana University President William Lowe Bryan characterized the university's role in terms that still define its mission. In his inaugural address, President Bryan said, "What the people want is open paths from every corner of the state, through the schools to the highest and best things which they can achieve. To make such paths, to make them open to the poorest and make them lead to the highest, is the mission of democracy." For nearly two centuries, that has also been the goal of Indiana University.
Come with us as we travel those paths that William Lowe Bryan so eloquently described. Let's begin in Bloomington. Walking across the beautiful woodland campus, we find ourselves thinking about where it all began.
IU opened its doors to its first 12 students on a spring morning in 1824. Judge David Banta, a trustee and historian of the university, described that moment in apt terms. He wrote, "On this May morning, a fire was kindled on the altar of learning that has never been extinguished."
But the origins of IU go back to a sunny day in June 1816, when a group of Hoosier pioneers met beneath the spreading branches of a giant elm in the frontier village of Corydon, Ind. As they set about the task of writing the state's constitution, they established a mandate for higher education. Responding to their mandate, legislators established the "State's Seminary" in 1820.
The Missouri Compromise had just established the balance of slave and free states, and settlers were rushing across the Ohio River searching for a better life. In 1820, Bloomington had been in existence for only two years. On the edge of the frontier, it was scarcely more than a tiny way station amid the lush forests of southern Indiana. Conditions were so primitive that it took four years to select the site, build the buildings, and hire someone who was qualified to teach Greek and Latin.
Over the years, discussions of psychology, physics, finance, chemistry, and musical theory have replaced recitations in Greek and Latin. Thanks to the vision of the late Herman B Wells, BA'24, MA'27, LLD'62, IU is no longer a small, isolated Midwestern university, but an international community of learning, where cutting-edge research is the order of the day, every day. No longer are the faculty and students of a privileged gender and social class. The gates of the university are open to all who thirst for knowledge.
Today, IU has more than 100 programs ranked among the top 20 in the nation. The School of Public and Environmental Affairs is ranked third nationally. The School of Music continues to be among the best in the world, with the nation's top-ranked voice and opera programs. The Kelley School of Business, which now offers an online MBA, graduated its first class of Kelley Scholars in May 2002.
IU's newest school, the School of Informatics, produced its first class of Bloomington graduates this spring. The School of Informatics, which is also on the IUPUI campus, gives students the skills to apply information technology to other fields, from health care to journalism to biology to economics.
Our tour of the IUB campus begins at the Sample Gates and proceeds to the Well House, whose graceful arches are the porticos from the Old College Building on the first university site. (Located at Second Street and College Avenue in Bloomington, that site, known as Seminary Square, served IU until 1885.) As we walk through the Old Crescent, we encounter Wells Plaza. Tuck Langland's sculpture of Chancellor Wells occupies a patio surrounded by lovely pink roses. It reminds us once again of the intersections of past, present, and future that are so much a part of the life of the campus.
Continuing east, we survey the nexus of IUB's sciences, beginning at the center of campus with Chemistry, Jordan, Rawles, Swain, and the newly renovated Myers Hall and extending north to the Geology building on 10th Street. The new multidisciplinary science complex, now in the planning stages, will provide badly needed research space.
Moving on, we seize the opportunity to wander the halls of IU's famous School of Music. There we encounter a woman who may be the university's oldest and most devoted staff member. Helen Clouse is 95 and still comes to work every day. She has served under four of the school's six deans and has known many of its most famous graduates. For more than 40 years, Mrs. Clouse has arranged practice times for the school's singers and instrumentalists. She currently schedules more than 3,200 practice hours a week for the school's 1,800 students — and she does it without a computer.
Helen Clouse believes that the most important thing in life is to make a contribution. She has done a great deal to contribute to the family atmosphere of the school.
In earlier years, she baked cookies or fruit breads every evening and brought them in. These days, she offers a large plate of candy to each student who stops by to chat or ask for a practice room. And by her example, she encourages them to "make a contribution."
From the Music School, we walk to the arts plaza, noting that the dolphins have been restored to Showalter Fountain. They were removed for their safety before the Hoosiers' thrilling run to the Final Four.
Pausing on the east edge of campus, we take the time to tour the new Theatre/Neal-Marshall building. This building, with its slate, maple, oak, and native Indiana limestone, contains two state-of-the-art theaters, a scene and costume shop, and facilities for the Black Culture Center and the African American Arts Institute. Actors and civil rights activists Ruby Dee and Ossie Davis came to campus last winter to help dedicate the building.
Even a brief tour of the campus leaves no doubt that IUB is carrying out the mission for which it was founded more than 182 years ago.
IU SOUTHEAST
During the first years of his tenure, President Bryan traveled by rail and horseback to every county in Indiana, spreading the message that higher education could make a difference in the life of the state and its citizens. Faculty members were likewise required to give educational talks and sometimes classes beyond the walls of the campus.
As early as 1891, IU professors traveled to New Albany to offer lectures to alumni and local teachers. Interest grew until 1941, when 291 students registered for classes at what President Herman B Wells determined would be called the Falls City Area Center. Public school classrooms from Jeffersonville to New Albany to Madison did double duty, housing area children and teenagers during the day and their parents in the evening.
The center made it through the war years by advertising "Higher Training for War and Peace." After the war, it found permanent quarters in the Jeffersonville Youth Center, just in time to accommodate the influx of returning veterans. As enrollment grew, so did extracurricular activities, with a wide range of social events, student organizations, and a campus newspaper.
In the 1960s, Mayor Tuffy Inman decided New Albany needed local access to quality higher education and campaigned tirelessly to make that dream a reality. He helped the city raise more than half a million dollars to purchase 173 acres for the IUS campus.
Inman's successors have built on this legacy by creating a healthy local economy in which new graduates can use their skills and knowledge. While most of Indiana is experiencing a brain drain, 82 percent of IUS's current graduates stay in the area. More than half (62 percent) of the teachers in Floyd County schools are Southeast alumni.
The signature clock stands in the central plaza. Down Alumni Drive is the Ogle Cultural and Community Center sculpture, the gift of Ruth Braeutigam, who taught more than four decades of New Albany high school students. The artwork depicts two forms conversing; their sweeping curves indicate the educational experience at IUS as they gesture toward their surroundings and reach toward the sky.
Moving on from the Ogle Center, we see the University Center and Library buildings, both scheduled for renovation and expansion. Beyond them is Hillside Hall, home of the IUS School of Business, whose students ranked among the top 3 percent in a nationwide test administered at 388 universities. Hillside Hall also houses the School of Education, where an average of 98 percent of the students pass their state proficiency exams.
Passing Crestview, we encounter the newly renovated Life Sciences Building, home to the life sciences and allied health programs. Nursing students reach out through community service projects that range from safety education for grade-schoolers to domestic violence prevention.
South of the main campus is the new Koetter Sports Complex, which will include a field house, fitness track, soccer field, tennis field, and playground equipment. The newly renovated softball field is already seeing some play.
IU Southeast is one of IU's fastest growing campuses. During the six-year tenure of recently retired Chancellor F.C. Richardson, it experienced a 20 percent increase in enrollment, thanks in part to a reciprocity agreement with Kentucky. It has also seen a 21 percent rise in tenure-track faculty. IUS faculty members are engaged in varied research, including ways that insects "talk" with one another through "vibrational" mating songs.
This fall, the campus will re-establish some of its roots in Jeffersonville when it opens the IU Southeast Graduate Center at the McCauley Nicolas Building near the Ohio riverfront.
Recent fund-raising success reflects campus growth and excitement about its future. The three-year IUS Campaign concluded in June, with a total of $15 million, $5 million over its goal. Southeast's new chancellor, Sandra Patterson-Randles, will take the campus to the next level as it continues to enlarge on its promise of providing "excellence close to home."
IU EAST
Leaving New Albany, we head northeast to Richmond, the home of IU East, which just celebrated its 30th anniversary. From a small night school established at Earlham College, IU East has developed into a busy regional campus, experiencing record enrollments the last several semesters. With strong education, business, and nursing programs, it is devoted to meeting the cultural and educational needs of the people who live and work in east-central Indiana. IU East is now bringing its resources to bear in helping the Community Education Coalition of Fayette County develop an arts and sciences center in Connersville.
The campus had its beginnings in 1946 when Earlham College and IU established the EC-IU Extension Center to offer educational opportunities to working adults. Student enrollment grew through the 1950s and 1960s until the center was bursting at the seams.
Area citizens responded with a groundswell of community spirit. Money flowed in from corporate donors and private citizens who became known as "grassroots patrons." Many of these staunch supporters of higher education invested in the future of their community by having a dollar a week deducted from their paychecks over the course of three years. The tiles in Whitewater Hall bear the names of these grassroots patrons and offer testimony to the community spirit that characterizes IU East.
The campus remains true to its origins by giving back to the community in a variety of ways. For instance, students in a summer session class taught by Tim Scales, BS'93, gained real-world experience by helping the Richmond Parks Department raise the profile of Cardinal Greenway and Whitewater Gorge Trail, which enable citizens to enjoy the sites and sounds of nature in the middle of Richmond. After conducting a collaborative analysis of the Parks Department's marketing strategies, students made suggestions for community fund raising and offered promotional ideas.
Service learning has a long and distinguished history at IU East. Since philosophy professor Cathy Ludlum Foos introduced service learning into her classroom 10 years ago, her work has strongly influenced the ways service learning has been integrated into courses on all IU campuses.
The campus continues to grow, with three new buildings in the last 10 years. The newest, Springwood Hall, offers clear evidence of East's commitment to educating the whole person. This new building houses classrooms, student activity space, a child-development center, a tutorial center, a computer laboratory, a career planning and placement center, and a nurse-managed clinic and wellness center.
As the campus enters its fourth decade, an air of optimism, energy, and excitement can be felt everywhere. IU East is expanding its market through a reciprocity agreement with nearby Ohio counties and embarking on a Strategic Management Process designed to make the campus the best it can be.
IPFW
Indiana University–Purdue University Fort Wayne is a partnership campus in the northeastern part of the state. It is administered by that other Big Ten university in Indiana.
In 1917, when IU began offering classes in Indiana's second-largest city, more than 50 percent of the 142 registered students were teachers. The nation was at war, and Fort Wayne, the Summit City, was bustling with activity. Until the 1930s, the extension center catered to the educational needs of adults who wanted to broaden their horizons with such subjects as psychology, philosophy, international relations, and public speaking.
In the 1940s, when recent high school graduates sought higher education close to home, Purdue began offering classes in Fort Wayne. Both extension centers took advantage of the availability of Central High School classrooms.
After nearly half a century of development and several locations around Fort Wayne, the state's two research universities formed a foundation to fund the creation of a campus on the north edge of the city. In 1964, IU President Elvis Stahr joined Purdue President Frederick Hovde in dedicating the new campus, which pioneered the idea of Indiana's two major public research universities joining forces in a regional endeavor. The collaboration soon caught on in other parts of the state and has since been copied elsewhere in the nation.
Walking into the administration building of this thriving campus that prepares citizens of the Allen County area to meet the challenges of the future, we encounter an imposing relic from the prehistoric past. The grand skeleton of a mastodon graces the lobby of Kettler Hall. The mastodon, which was unearthed during an archeological dig conducted in the area in 1968, helps define the character of the campus. Mastodons are everywhere at IPFW, including the basketball floor, tennis courts, baseball diamond, and cross country track.
Indiana's prehistory continues to play a large role in some of the most high-profile faculty research on the campus. IPFW Professor of Geology James Farlow, BA'72, recently received a grant from the National Science Foundation to continue his research at the Pipe Creek Sinkhole in Grant County, near Swayzee. Farlow has appeared on PBS and the Discovery and Disney channels to discuss the abundant plant and animal remains — including those of camels, bears, frogs, snakes, turtles, and several newly discovered species of rodents — that he and his fellow researchers have found at the site. The fossils are about 5 million years old and are the first of their kind to be found in this part of North America. Farlow's laboratory is housed in IPFW's new, state-of-the-art Science Building, which is also home to biology and chemistry.
Additional construction is planned for the campus. Funds are being raised to support student housing, library expansion, and a performing arts complex. The campus is partnering with the community and other higher education institutions, including IU, to bring the Northeast Indiana Innovative Center to Fort Wayne. The NIIC will focus on biomedical/biotechnology, information technologies, and advanced manufacturing areas.
While the IU/Purdue partnership is not without its tensions, especially during basketball season, it does an excellent job of providing cultural enhancement and educational opportunities to the citizens of the Three Rivers area.
IU SOUTH BEND
As we head northwest to South Bend, we think about the St. Joseph River. A river by that name flows through both Fort Wayne and South Bend — although they are different rivers. IUSB is located on a strikingly picturesque stretch of its St. Joe River.
Indiana University first offered classes in South Bend in 1922. They were taught by a Bloomington faculty member who came to the city once a week. During the Depression, a permanent center was established to offer local citizens the first two years of college close to home.
In the late 1950s, a site on the St. Joseph River was acquired for the campus, and Northside Hall was built. It housed classrooms, laboratories, and an auditorium. The campus continued to expand, with four-year degree programs and another new building, Greenlawn Hall. In the '70s and '80s, the campus purchased and eventually pressed into service surrounding buildings owned by a data-processing firm called Associates Inc. Today IUSB is the third-largest IU campus.
At one point in his career, University Chancellor Wells vowed that he would not be satisfied until "there is a symphony orchestra in every county, singing societies and art classes for all who want them, and a theater group in every town hall." Thanks to his vision, each of IU's eight campuses fulfills that purpose for its community. IU South Bend does so especially well. The internationally renowned Toradze Piano Studio draws the best young pianists from around the world to South Bend. And the exchange works both ways. When pianist Alexander Toradze was recently invited to play for Prince Charles, he took with him several of his students.
IUSB's rich arts programs support both the South Bend and Elkhart communities and are supported by them in turn. From its early years, even before it had a building to house its fine music programs, the campus had a string quartet and strong support from civic leaders such as Ernestine Raclin, for whom the IUSB School of the Arts recently has been named. (IUSB is among the few IU campuses to have a separate school of the arts.)
IUSB is a dynamic, growing campus, with strong business, education, nursing, and allied health programs. The Schurz Library serves as its anchor. The beautiful, new pedestrian mall, which soon will be graced by IUSB faculty member Tuck Langland's fountain depicting two sculptural figures, creates a sense of spatial unity. The IUSB Student Activities Center, which will be dedicated on Sept. 27, will continue to strengthen and enhance student life, a proven key to student retention and success.
A planned pedestrian bridge across the St. Joseph River will eventually join the main campus with an old golf course on the south side of the river. Long-term campus development plans include student housing and athletics fields on the former golf course.
The IUSB faculty has earned respect for its aggressive pursuit of excellence in teaching. For more than a decade, IUSB was the headquarters of the university-wide Faculty Colloquium for Excellence in Teaching (FACET), which, over the course of the last dozen years, has become a national model. IUSB faculty members conduct research on topics as varied as depictions of terrorism in literature (published before 9/11), the workings of the Hubble space station, and ways to teach math more effectively. IUSB is home to the oldest women's studies program on any of the regional campuses and to the relatively new Civil Rights Center, which studies the history of the civil rights movement and the Underground Railroad. The campus is also a vital center of undergraduate research.
IUSB is a place of transformation. Its students and faculty believe the sky's the limit in terms of academic excellence, artistic achievement, and community involvement. New chancellor Una Mae Reck will lead IUSB to new levels of achievement.
IU NORTHWEST
IU Northwest is the university's — and the state's — most diverse campus. It got its start in 1917, when IU offered extension classes in Gary, Hammond, and East Chicago. In 1922 IU established a permanent office in Gary. In 1959 Tamarack Hall was built on the present site, and in 1963 the two Lake County IU centers merged to become the Northwest campus. IU Northwest has the distinction of being the first campus in the regional network to offer complete, four-year degree programs.
Since its inception, IUN has had an iron-clad commitment to fulfill the educational needs of the greater Northwest Indiana region. Ninety percent of IUN's graduates live and work in the three counties surrounding the Gary campus, and 80 percent of its graduates stay in the area to share their skills with their home communities.
A single mother working in the Lake County prosecutor's office takes a few classes at a time to finish her bachelor's degree so she can go to law school and make a bigger difference in the community's well-being. Instead of simply talking with her teen-age daughter about the value of a college degree, she demonstrates that value by her decade-long commitment, inspiring her daughter to follow in her footsteps.
Through Chancellor Bruce Bergland's development of a "Shared Vision," faculty, staff, and students are collaborating to ensure that the campus is a truly welcoming learning environment. The vision process focuses on IUN's unique identity in the community, the campus climate, and the part it can play in sustaining regional vitality.
Northwest has strong programs in nursing, public affairs, and business. It puts this excellence to use in the community. IUN's partnership with the Environmental Protection Agency has resulted in a number of productive initiatives, among them the creation of an environmental justice resource center and an outreach program that educates people on environmental issues. As one of four public affairs programs nationally to receive this funding, IUN is in a leadership position in this field.
IUN is also among the chosen few to receive a substantial grant from the U.S. Department of Education. The grant enabled the campus to expand its highly successful Urban Teacher Education Program, a field-based certification initiative for elementary and secondary school teachers.
The School of Business and Economics, which recently secured Northwest's first endowed chair, works closely with the Glen Park Merchants Association to identify and help address the needs of the business community.
IUN faculty research often has local as well as national significance. Studies range from how environmentally hazardous materials degrade to how changes in the Latino population affect the use of Spanish in Northwest Indiana.
The life and history of IUN are intimately tied to that of the region, as is demonstrated by such undertakings as the Calumet Regional Archives, numerous oral history projects, and the U.S. Steel Gary Works Photograph Collection (1906-1971).
The campus continues to participate in the national and international dialogue about the U.S. steel industry. In 2001, business and economics faculty teamed up with U.S. Rep. Pete Visclosky, BS'70 (an IUN alumnus), and Lt. Gov. Joe Kernan to host a summit on the crisis in the American steel industry.
The excellence of IUN's fine arts programs distinguishes it as the cultural heart of Northwest Indiana. The campus has two art galleries, and Theatre Northwest gives at least six major productions annually. The children's theater program brings elementary-school children to campus, exposing them to higher education at a young age.
As part of envisioning an optimally welcome learning environment, students, staff, and faculty are planning public art and landscaped green space throughout the campus, creating settings for contemplation as well as conversation. Faculty and students have recently expanded the Native American garden, which includes herbs and plants of symbolic importance.
And a sculpture courtyard near the Savannah Center is in development. The dancing figure that commemorates the service of former Chancellor Hilda Richards marks a graceful beginning for this beautification effort.
The campus continues to grow, with a new student activities center and child care facility. It soon will have a new medical and professional education building. This new building will house allied health, nursing, and medical education programs and will provide space for the schools of business and public and environmental affairs.
As it has throughout its history, Indiana University Northwest invites the citizens of the seven-county area it serves to share its vision of a better life through educational accomplishment. It is a helping community that is in the business of making dreams come true.
IU KOKOMO
From Gary, we head south to IU Kokomo. The campus had its beginnings during the Great Depression, when many people were seeking opportunity. The idea for the two-year college that would later become Indiana University Kokomo was born in a conversation between two brothers as they sat thinking about their future one summer evening in Wabash, Ind.
George Beauchamp was a professor of speech at Manchester College. His brother John had just completed an M.A. at the University of Michigan and was looking for a teaching job. It occurred to him that a two-year college supported by tuition might succeed in Indiana. The brothers discussed the idea with their parents, and the whole family grew excited by the possibility. Soon they were all gathered around the dining table, searching a map of Indiana for the largest city farthest away from a college or university. Kokomo appeared the best choice. The brothers called the Kokomo superintendent of schools for an appointment the next day.
When George and his brother opened their doors in the fall of 1932, they enrolled 50 students, 10 more than they had expected. They rented their classroom space from the local YMCA at $1 a year, and they paid their well-qualified faculty $50 a month, $15 less than WPA workers received. Yet the faculty upheld the highest standards of academic integrity.
Recognizing that the college filled a crucial need for many young people who otherwise would have been deprived of educational opportunity, the local business community enthusiastically supported John Beauchamp's negotiations with Indiana University to make Kokomo Junior College an extension of IU. Thus IU Kokomo was born, and it grew to meet the needs of the citizens it served. It continues to do so.
The campus now offers the state's only health and aging bachelor's degree oriented to the social sciences. An innovative, interdisciplinary art-appreciation course developed by Vice Chancellor for Academic Affairs Stuart Green and two of his colleagues recently attracted national attention. Students don't just listen to opera; they sing. They don't just learn about visual art or theater or dance; they paint, act, and move. As part of this experience, a renowned author and dancer came to the Kresge Auditorium to lecture about and pay tribute in performance to modern-dance pioneer Isadora Duncan.
IUK faculty are serious about both teaching and research. They investigate such questions as AIDS in China, the safety of public water supplies, the enduring question of who wrote Shakespeare's plays, and the way tobacco companies market to specific minority populations.
The new science building, Virgil and Elizabeth Hunt Hall, recently won a design award from College Planning and Management magazine, one of 22 buildings so honored nationally. The design demystifies science by creating a welcoming environment.
The campus continues to reach out to the community with an art gallery, theater productions, programs such as Camp Eeze the Wheeze for children with asthma, and an annual conference about enhancing minority achievement.
Chancellor Ruth Person is everywhere on campus, working with staff and faculty to enhance the family atmosphere and engage the community. IUK continues to expand its vision and grow new programs to serve north-central Indiana.
IUPUI
And finally, we head to the state's capital city to visit the IUPUI campus.
IUPUI is one of the great success stories of 20th-century higher education. Its progress and potential can be favorably compared with that of UCLA, another model public urban university.
Starting in 1915, the Indianapolis extension center served the city and the state for 52 years. Indiana's physicians and nurses were trained at Long Hospital, which still houses offices of the state's only medical school. The schools of dentistry and nursing (ranked 12 nationally) are training grounds for excellence in health care.
In 1968, when Chancellor Wells was invited to speak at the ground-breaking of the three-building complex (a library, laboratory and office, and a classroom building) that would form what was then being called the "Indianapolis Downtown Campus," he celebrated both a birth and a rebirth. The birth of the downtown campus brought together the developing Medical Center with all the other Indiana University programs in Indianapolis. It began the Indianapolis partnership between IU and Purdue. And it became a force for the economic, social, and cultural renewal in the state's capital city.
In the three decades since its founding, IUPUI has transformed undergraduate education in central Indiana. It has collected a number of awards for teaching and learning. It was recently one of 16 campuses nationally recognized by the Association of American Colleges and Universities for visionary innovations in undergraduate education. The campus was named a leadership institution, offering model best practices as part of the Greater Expectations Consortium on Quality Education.
IUPUI remains intimately connected to the life of the Indianapolis community and beyond. From the Community Learning Network, which has developed a virtual high school, to the School of Medicine's collaborations with a Kenyan university's research and treatment of AIDS (among other health-care issues) to the International Human Rights Law internships that give students opportunities to advocate for human rights around the world, IUPUI is a model of public engagement.
The Center on Philanthropy, recognized as one of the 50 most influential leaders in the nonprofit sector, provides valuable research and education in the scholarship of philanthropic engagement.
The campus has had record grant and gift income. The IUPUI Capital Campaign, which began in fall 2001, has raised $625 million toward its $700 million goal.
This vital community of learning continues to grow by leaps and bounds. In 2001, the School of Law–Indianapolis, the largest law school in the state, moved into its award-winning new building, Inlow Hall, on the southeast edge of the campus. It offers a soaring central atrium and a clear view of and access to the state Capitol. The old law school building is currently under renovation to house the Herron School of Art.
The new Research II building is nearing completion, and further expansion is being planned north of Fall Creek to house research facilities and an entrepreneurial incubator for the Indiana Genomics Initiative, funded by a landmark $105 million grant from the Lilly Endowment. A newly constructed People Mover will connect the research and hospital complex at the IU Medical Center with Methodist Hospital.
Ground was broken in the fall of 2001 for the Communications and Technology Complex (CTC), at West and Michigan streets. The building will consolidate IUPUI's cutting-edge technology programs, including the Network Operations Center for Internet2.
Much of IUPUI's growth over the last three decades has expanded into the historic African-American Ransom Place neighborhood. In the summer of 2001, anthropology professor Paul Mullins and his students excavated the site of the new CTC complex to better understand the history of Indianapolis African-American culture and race relations. Mullins looks for "talkative artifacts." The most significant of these has been the ubiquitous Polk's Milk bottle caps, which offer insight into the color bar in Indianapolis. Once a year African-Americans were allowed to enter the Riverside Recreation Park, if they had saved up enough milk caps. Ransom Place Archaeology is a cooperative project supported by IUPUI, the Ransom Place Neighborhood Association, and the Indianapolis Urban League.
Mullins and his students discovered more than 30,000 varied artifacts at the CTC site. University administration has developed an agreement with the archeology project's partners that IUPUI won't build on a site until excavation is completed.
Chancellor Jerry Bepko, who retires after the 2002-03 academic year, characterizes IUPUI's potential in these terms: "The vision for the future of IUPUI is to be among the best urban public university campuses in the nation." For IUPUI, the future is here.
The spirit of Indiana unites all of IU's eight campuses. That spirit is animated by dedicated faculty members, by students who are discovering the delights and rewards of learning, by devoted alumni, and many visionaries — past, present, and future — all of whom love the university and recognize its great potential for creating new paths to discovery and accomplishment, not only for citizens of the Hoosier state but for the world beyond its borders. 
Susan Moke, BA'85, MA'94, PhD'98, is IU President Myles Brand's communications assistant.